The SEND and AP improvement plan sets out the government's plan to reform its approach to special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision (AP). The overarching aim is to pull the 2 systems together to create a sustainable, easy-to-navigate single system that meets the needs of all concerned.
On 2 March 2023, the government published its improvement plan, The SEND and AP Improvement Plan - Right Support, Right Place, Right Time. We'll refer to it as ‘the plan’ throughout this article.
The government has set out timelines for the proposed actions in this roadmap published by the DfE. We’ll examine what’s been done and what’s still to come.
This is not an exhaustive list of all the policy proposals in the plan
We’ve chosen to focus on the issues that we feel will most directly impact you. For full details see the DfE's policy paper.
