The services will provide targeted support to local areas to improve their SEND provision and will include:

Expert professional advice to understand issues, make recommendations, assist with development of the area’s improvement plan and deliver timely and relevant support to help them implement that plan local, regional or national training/development programmes and bespoke support packages to:

• improve multi-agency delivery of SEND reforms at local level including developing integrated service provision across education, health and care;

• enable local areas to strengthen strategic leadership and governance of their SEND services;

• increase capability of operational SEND leaders and senior leaders with responsibility for SEND;

• support local areas to improve their strategic role in driving improvement in educational provision for children and young people with SEND.

Development of sector-led support to facilitate peer to peer learning and enable innovation and the development, di