Complete the SEND reforms experts at hand survey

• ● provide feedback on specialist health (including educational psychology) services commissioned or purchased for by your school or multi academy trust

Completion takes around 5 minutes.

• ● the name of your school
• ● your name and job title

The Local Area SEND Partnership is developing proposals to introduce an Experts at Hand approach as part of national SEND reforms and the local area SEND improvement plan.

Experts at Hand will provide mainstream education settings with a clear way to access specialist support. This includes support from education and health professionals such as educational psychology, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and outreach from specialist settings.

The approach focuses on earlier, evidence‑based support through increased use of group‑based models and whole‑setting advice. This enables health and education professionals to work more effectively with schools, helping to improve outcomes and prevent needs from escalating where possible.

As part of developing this model, we would like to understand which health‑related services schools are currently commissioning or purchasing and how these services are being used.

We are working to nationally set timescales to develop our plans and would appreciate you taking a few minutes to complete the following survey by 8 May 2026.

The Council uses your information in accordance with the Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation. For more details on how we use your personal information please view our Privacy Notices page (opens in new tab).