In this report, What Works in SEND researchers at Warwick Business School aimed to identify approaches to service delivery for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND1). The objectives were to:
- Gather descriptive information on the approaches to service delivery
- Provide examples of how they are being implemented
- Identify the benefits and challenges of the approaches.
The research presents findings on:
- A review of the guidance on delivering services for children and young people with SEND
- The scoping of service delivery approaches
- Five ‘deep dives’ looking at specific service delivery approaches in more detail.
The research then draws attention to key points that relate to evaluation and learning that policymakers might take account of, and identifies key learning from the service delivery approaches organised through five sets of principles.
[1] For ease of reading, we use the term ‘SEND’ to refer to disabled children, young people and children and young people with special educational needs.