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York's Model of Joint Partnership working (co-production)

York's Model of Joint Partnership working (co-production)

A Joint Partnership (co-production) model and audit framework for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Services in York, April 2025.

Main authors:

  • Lynne Johns - Head of SEND (Interim), City of York Council (CYC)
  • Laura Brown - Local Offer and Participation Officer, CYC
  • Jennie Hitchins - Parent Carer Forum, York

List of contributors:

  • Ruth Thompson - York Inspirational Kids
  • Liz Allen - York Tourette’s Parents Group
  • Theresa Ollereshaw - Parent
  • Tanya Beresnevich - Parent
  • Louise Mouncey - Parent
  • Gillian Bucklow - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS)
  • Olivia Verity - SENDIASS
  • Rachel Thomas - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENCO), Westfield Primary School
  • Anna Mehta - SENCO, Fulford Secondary School
  • Alison Brown - Senior Manager, Allied Health Professionals
  • Fiona Gospel - Clinical Psychology
  • Victoria Burns - SENCO, York High School
  • Pam Toas - Team Leader Special School and Community Children’s Nursing
  • Susan De Val - Children’s specialist health commissioner
  • Sally Smith - Designated Medical Officer, Paediatrician, York Teaching Hospital
  • Clare Donovan - Learning Support, Askham Bryan College
  • Nicola Greenwood - Short Breaks Manager, CYC
  • Caroline Coates - Special Educational Needs (SEN) Caseworker, CYC
  • Alison Edeson - Skills Manager, CYC
  • Ruth Horner - Preparing for Adulthood Coordinator, CYC
  • Graham Reagan - SENCO, Manor Academy
  • Caroline Blackley-Sharpe - SENCO, All Saints Secondary School
  • Helen Horner - SEN Caseworker, CYC
  • Janet Bennet - York Education, CYC
  • Carmel Appleton - Advocacy Team, CYC
  • Tina Hardman - Principal Educational Psychologist, CYC
  • Lisa Booker - SEN Caseworker, CYC
  • Dallas Frank - Head of Quality Assurance and Safeguarding
  • Jenna Tucker - Team Leader, Children’s Therapies
  • Sal Katib - Head of Children Nursing

To avoid ambiguity and support understanding of this document a glossary of commonly used terms, abbreviations and acronyms are:

  • audit - the method by which there is a formal structured approach to inspecting and measuring the compliance, quality, effectiveness and impact of the service provided
  • CAMHS - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
  • commissioning - the process of procuring and arranging services based on population needs and supporting evidence. In this context this may be from a health, social or education perspective
  • CYP - Children and young people
  • EHCP - Education, Health and Care Plan
  • LA - Local authority
  • PCF - Parent Carer Forum
  • stakeholder - the spectrum of everyone involved from those receiving services to those who provide and commission services, including the voluntary and advocacy services sector
  • strategic - the overarching set of activities and operating structures put in place to deliver and achieve goals for the population
  • individual - referring to child, young person, parent, carers own experience
  • TEWV - Tees, Esk, Wear Valley. An acronym for mental health provider