Through the Delivering Better Outcomes Together (DBOT) contract, funded by the Department for Education (DfE), the Council for Disabled Children (CDC) provided bespoke individual and collective support to local areas on a variety of topics related to SEND and Social Care. As part of this, we ran a series of accelerated working group sessions to 13 local areas focused on Eligibility, Thresholds and Short Breaks. As part of these sessions, we created outputs to support local areas to embed consistent offers for disabled children and young people and those with SEN, and their families.
This Needs-led Eligibility Framework was co-designed with the local areas involved to map clear pathways to support for disabled children and young people which enables lawful, transparent and accessible pathways enabling families to access the right support at the right time. This framework has been built to fit within a broader model of what we know works in SEND and Social Care.