The Local Offer, Children And Parental Rights

The local offer is designed to provide meaningful choice for parents, and to ensure children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) have access to appropriate support services in their local area.

Hosted by each local authority in England, the local offer is a list of education, health and social care services made publicly available in an online information directory for use by parents and carers of children and young people with SEND. The local offer is also intended to help local authorities identify gaps in provision, and to make sure these gaps are addressed.

As a tool designed to provide up to date, useful advice to parents and carers, it is important that the local offers provided by local authorities are both comprehensive and easily accessible.

This report from the Children’s Services Development Group (CSDG) provides an assessment of the extent to which local authorities in England are discharging their statutory obligations as set out in the Children and Families Act 2014 in relation to the delivery of the local offer.

To read our report, please click here: The Local Offer, Children and Parental Rights