Please provide the following Devon County Council policies and operational guidance:
a. Devon’s SEND transfer policy and operational guidance on Reg 15 ‘ including any internal guidance on cases where the maintaining LA is asked to cease maintenance and the receiving LA presents transfer paperwork in circumstances of disputed parental consent or unresolved address. Current versions, version histories, and any internal interpretation notes are sought in each case.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
b. Devon’s published SEND service-delivery framework (the operational protocol governing how SEND Operations engages with parents on matters arising on a child’s EHCP).
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
c. Devon’s reasonable-adjustments policy in respect of services, public functions, and complaints procedures (anticipatory-duty framework).
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
d. Devon’s PSED operational guidance and any equality impact assessments touching on SEND transfer decisions or SEND complaints handling.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
e. Devon’s published Corporate Complaints Procedure in current form.
This information is publicly available on the Feedback and complaints pages of the Devon County Council website.
f. The operational policy or protocol governing when SEND-matter decisions are routed through Litigation rather than handled by SEND Operations.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
g. The operational policy or protocol governing engagement of SEND Operations versus Children’s Social Care versus Litigation in cases of disputed parental engagement on EHCP transfer.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
h. The operational guidance on child-voice capture during EHCP-transfer disputes ‘ how Devon SEND operationally discharges SEND CoP 1.15 and 9.21.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
i. The operational guidance on engagement with named placement and clinical practice during EHCP-transfer disputes.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
j. Any sector-wide guidance on which Devon Litigation relied for the proposition that ‘where a child has moved’ the Reg 15 framework is engaged, in the form referenced in the Goldsbrough chain.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
k. Devon’s Information Governance redaction policy as it applies to parental-rights cases.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
l. Operational guidance internal to the SEND Service on the threshold for engaging Children’s Social Care versus engaging SEND-only processes.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
m. The operational verification framework Devon SEND applies to a Reg 15 transfer request from another LA where the substantive ‘move’ proposition is contested by the joint-PR-holder of the substantive child.
Devon County Council does not hold this information.