Q15. What would provide assurance for families that an Individual Support Plan (ISP) is high‑quality and contains the essential information?

The context: All children receiving SEND support will have a digital Individual Support Plan (ISP). This will be a statutory duty for settings. There will be guidance to support settings to create high-quality plans, developed with parents and standardised to facilitate transitions. Plans will be reviewed annually at the minimum. Concerns about provision set out in the ISP will be resolved with the setting, but the Government proposes improvements to the complaints process, including that when a complaint relates to SEND provision, the complaints panel must include a SEND specialist who is independent of the school.

In your answer, you may want to consider:

• The average age for a child to obtain an adoption order is 3-4 years old. Therefore, some children who are moving to adoption may already have a digital ISP. How will the system ensure that essential information is appropriately retained and passed on to the adoptive family and any relevant professionals when a child is adopted and receives a new, legal identity and a new Unique Pupil Number with all links to their pre-adoption records severed?