Building on the existing collaboration between IPR and Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Council this project explores the significant increases in demand for services relating to Special Educational Needs and Disability and Learning Disabilities from early years into adult services.

Building on existing good practice, high quality data analysis is needed to understand the causal factors behind these increases. In order to avoid a ‘black box’ analysis and to ensure that skills and capacity within both B&NES Council and the IPR are enhanced, ongoing collaboration around the process of articulating research questions and curating, describing and analysing the data is vital.

This process is part of developing a methodology which is transferrable to other local settings.