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Important Announcement

Improving the lives of children with special educational needs and disabilities in the Dudley borough.

Keeping stakeholders, parents and carers informed about Dudley’s SEND Improvement Programme.

Joint Local Area SEND Revisit

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have announced on17 January that they will be carrying out a revisit to Dudley on 31 January 2022.

The purpose of the revisit is to determine whether the local area has made sufficient progress in addressing the areas of significant weakness detailed in the written statement of action (WSOA) that was approved by the Department for Education in December 2019 following the borough's joint local area SEND inspection in May 2019.

Inspectors will gather contributions from parents and carers via an online survey (which will open at 12pm on Monday 24 January and close at 12pm on Friday 28 January 2022) and a range of other methods.

On Tuesday 1 February 2022 from 11am-12pm, parents and carers are also invited to attend an open meeting to share their thoughts. For more information, click the button below which will direct you to the Local Offer website. 

More information:

Visit the Local Offer website to learn more about the services available in the borough. To find out more about the SEND Improvement Programme, please visit Dudley's Health and Wellbeing Board. 

Useful contacts:

Service Director for Early Help/Schools and SEND: 

Helen Ellis - Helen.Ellis@dudley.gov.uk

Interim Head of SEND: Toni Dawodu -  Toni.Dawodu@dudley.gov.uk

SEND Manager: Sue Powell – Susan.Powell@dudley.gov.uk

SEND Team Manager North: Rob Bennett -  Robert.X.Bennett@dudley.gov.uk

SEND Team Manager South: Kelly Warne -  Kelly.Warne@dudley.gov.uk

SEND Programme Manager: Simon Hickman -  Simon.Hickman@dudley.gov.uk

SEND Programme Manager: Paul Klein -  Paul.Klein@dudley.gov.uk