Last Updated - March 16, 2026
We are working in partnership with NHS Devon and SEND Family Voice Torbay to improve services for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and their families.
We want you to have the very best opportunities now and in the future.
Our vision is ‘to create a healthy, happy Torbay where individuals and communities can thrive’. This is from the Torbay Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
We work in partnership with SEND Family Voice Torbay as well as children, young people, parents, carers and partners.
We want to improve support for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities within Torbay so they have the very best opportunities now and in the future.
The SEND Local Area Improvement Partnership Board (SLAIP) meets regularly to ensure improvements work and have a positive impact for children and young people.
Dr Lincoln Sargeant, Torbay’s Director of Public Health and a member of the SEND local area improvement partnership (SLAIP) board, gives an update following February’s SLAIP meeting:
Read our latest Ofsted report here:
Area SEND Inspection of Torbay Local Area Partnership
In this video, its independent chair, Alison Hurley, explains what the board does:
SLAIP Minutes
Listen to Alison’s latest update from the October 2025 board meeting here:
Read Alison Hurley’s September blog here:
