About our Local Offer

How we can help you

Dorset's Local Offer is for children and young people from 0 to 25 years with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Find out how we can help you in this short video:

It's there for you to get involved and help improve your Local Offer.

Dorset SEND strategy

How we work to support you.
Dorset SEND action plan

How we're working to support you and an update on our progress,
Feedback from the Ofsted and Care Quality Commission revisit February 2019

Read what Ofsted and the CQC said.
SEND Code of Practice

Find the easy-read version of the SEND Code of Practice from Mencap.
Dorset SEND Capital Strategy 2020 to 2025

How we'll invest the funding.
SEND Tribunal: national trial

How the tribunal is changing.
Dorset accessibility strategy for schools 2019 to 2022

Our accessibility strategy for schools in Dorset and what we must legally provide.
Dorset SEND participation and co-production policy

Policy for participation and co-production written with young people, parents and carers.
Delta Education Trust new special free school

Delta Education Trust's proposed opening of a special free school in Bovington.
Summary of SEND enquiry day

Find out what the scrutiny committees discussed and their recommendations.

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