We asked the Department what the metrics of success for the SEND review would be and how it would know that it had succeeded in giving the necessary support to children with SEND. The Department told us that the goal of the review was to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND in a financially sustainable way, because it could see that cost pressures and performance issues were interlinked. It said that it had been discussing metrics with the review’s steering group and with stakeholders. As well as educational attainment, the impact measures would cover life outcomes, such as numbers not in education, employment or training, and health and wellbeing.49