Dear Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust,

A local authority in England and its partner commissioning bodies must make arrangements (“joint commissioning arrangements”) about the education, health and care provision to be secured for—

(a) children and young people for whom the authority is responsible who have special educational needs, and
(b) children and young people in the authority's area who have a disability.

(3) Joint commissioning arrangements must include arrangements for considering and agreeing—

(a) the education, health and care provision reasonably required by—
(i) the learning difficulties and disabilities which result in the children and young people
within subsection (1)(a) having special educational needs, and
(ii) the disabilities of the children and young people within subsection (1)(b);
(b) what education, health and care provision is to be secured;
(c) by whom education, health and care provision is to be secured;
(d) what advice and information is to be provided about education, health and care provision;
(e)by whom, to whom and how such advice and information is to be provided;
(f) how complaints about education, health and care provision may be made and are to be dealt with;
(g) procedures for ensuring that disputes between the parties to the joint commissioning arrangements are resolved as quickly as possible.

(8)A local authority's “partner commissioning bodies” are—

(a)[F2NHS England], to the extent that it is under a duty under section 3B of the National
Health Service Act 2006 to arrange for the provision of services or facilities for—
(i)any children and young people for whom the authority is responsible who have
special educational needs, or
(ii)any children and young people in the authority's area who have a disability, and
(b)each [F3integrated care board] that is under a duty under section 3 of that Act to arrange for the provision of services or facilities for any children and young people within paragraph (a).

Please provide me with a copy of Berkshrie Health Care Trusts Joint Commissioning arrangements with Reading Borough Council..

Yours faithfully,

Jacqui Prentice