A message from Christine McInnes:
21 March 2025 weekly update
21 March 2025
This week Christine provides an update on the Kent County Council Safety Valve agreement and Scrutiny Committee.
Dear Colleagues
Just some communications updates this week.
You may be aware that there has been some local and national interest in the KCC Safety Valve agreement recently, so if you are interested in finding out more there a number of articles on the KCC website.
- Overview of the Safety Valve
- Improving completion of EHCPs within the 20 week deadline
- How we are tackling the overspend
At Scrutiny Committee this week two SEND related reports were discussed. The full report pack can be viewed here with the Safety Valve Programme report on Pages 109 – 126 and the quarterly SEND Scrutiny performance report on pages 133 – 136.
And finally… work on making mainstream schools more accessible is on-going, as is our work on both expanding and developing special schools to better meet need, find out more here, Millions invested into school upgrades to increase SEND places in Kent - News & Features - Kent County Council.
Have a great weekend.
With all best wishes
Christine McInnes
Director of Education and SEN