This Board has now ceased. Please see Local Area SEND Partnership Board for up to date information.

A SEND Transformation Board has been set up to ensure that the Local Area improves its services for children and young people with SEND.  The Board will oversee the Written Statement of Action (WSoA) and all the work it contains.

Members of the SEND Transformation Board are:

• Chair Simone White, Director, Children, Families & Education, Wirral Council

• Deputy Chair Elizabeth Hartley, Assistant Director, Early Help and Prevention, Wirral Council

• Place Director Simon Banks, Place Director (Wirral)

• PCPW Chair Cath Griffiths, Chair of the Parent Carer Partnership Wirral

• PCPW Rep Lisa O’Boyle, Parent Carer Partnership Wirral representative

• Workstream 1 Lead Jason Oxley, Assistant Director, Care and Health and Commissioning for People, Wirral Council

• Workstream 2 Lead Carly Brown, Assistant Director, Strategy and Partnerships, Wirral Council

• Workstream 3 Lead Elizabeth Hartley, Assistant Director, Early Help and Prevention, Wirral Council

• Workstream 4 Lead James Backhouse, Assistant Director, Education, Wirral Council

• Workstream 5 Lead Lorna Quigley, Director of Quality and Safety (Chief Nurse) Wirral CCG

• Workstream 6 Lead Keith Billington, Supporting Families Information Desk Manager, Wirral Council

• Interim Head of SEND Adrian Leach

The Department for Education Advisor and CQC Advisor will be invited to attend meetings as observers.

To find out more about the SEND Transformation Board, how it works, what it will do, and who it reports to, please read the Terms of Reference and Governance Arrangements

Download SEND Transformation Board Governance

The SEND Transformation Board will meet on the following dates:

• 25th April 2022

• 27th June 2022

• 4th September 2022

• 31st October 2022

• 13th February 2023

• 19th June 2023