Purpose

The timely completion of Education, Health and Care needs
assessments makes an important contribution to ensuring that
children and young people with additional needs and disabilities
receive the right support, in the right place, at the right
time.
The Education Health
and Care Needs Assessment Timeliness Recovery Plan is being
accelerated to address the current significant delays.  This strategy to improve timeliness is
multi-faceted, but one of the most critical parts of the plan is to
significantly increase short term capacity to the Educational
Psychology service and SEN services to address the overdue workload
of needs assessments and annual reviews. 
 
A SEN contract is required
initially for up to 12 months because it would not be feasible for
the service to recruit or manage the level of temporary resource
quickly or effectively enough to meet the level of workload
expected in the short term.

Content

It was AGREED that:
 
1.A contract is awarded to Reed Talent
Solutions under the YPO 940 Managing Consultancy and Professional
Services Framework.