The amendment by Councillor Reeves was
accepted by the proposer.
The motion as amended was carried with 50 in
favour; 0 against and 1 abstention.
In September 2023, Ofsted and the Care Quality
Commission declared their judgment post inspection that the Local
Area Partnership (LAP) had multiple systemic failures.
Despite the Priority Action Plan (PAP), the
Council is failing to meaningfully engage with elected members
on a cross-party basis or and capture the voice of
families affected and the user, our young people.
Council calls on Cabinet to consider;
- More
Mmeaningfully involveing young people and youth
organisations throughout all policy-making processes within SEND
improvement and the PAP. Co-management and co-creation
structures are the best way to ensure direct
participation.
- Any consultations or engagement with
young people by this council must have a visible public follow-up
to the outcomes and tangible metrics to ensure outcomes are
delivered.
- All Council policies
and
frameworks that affect young people, must include an impact
assessment, and ensure there are that reasonable
mitigation measures are put in place for those youth
groups that might be negatively impacted by a new policy or
framework.
- Ensuring that where appropriate all
future events, in person/online, run by or funded by OCC,
especially those related to the PAP, LAP, and SEND improvement, are
open to
all appropriate young people with the
attendance of their parent or carer.
- Launching a rapid task force for the
voice of the young person and SEND users, and task them to create a
framework for a Youth Forum within
3 three months
of this meeting date.
- The leader to appoint a SEND Champion from an
opposition group to enable
seldom heard that a wider
range of voices in the SEND community to are able
to feed into SEND improvement and services, and that
such person to sits on the SEND Improvement
board.