 multi-agency expectations for strategic leaders, senior or middle managers and for those involved in direct practice. Multi-agency practice expectations apply to all agencies and practitioners involved in supporting children and young people. The practice expectations are organised around 5 key principles: to collaborate, to learn, to resource, to include, and to mutually challenge. They set out how safeguarding partners and other agencies should work together and align their practice, including towards the outcomes in the National Framework. The National Framework is statutory guidance for local authorities and sets the outcomes that children’s social care should achieve. Local authorities can only achieve these outcomes with the full cooperation of other organisations. Safeguarding partners and relevant agencies, including education settings, should read and respond to the National Framework, alongside Working Together. The National Framework does not replace other guidance on multi-agency working and must be read in parallel with Working Together. 18 Following the National Framework alongside the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice Local authorities have important duties towards children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. They must deliver their responsibilities, with a view to integrating education, training and health and social care, where this would improve the overall quality of provision for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities. The SEND Code of Practice sets out that local authorities and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) must make joint commissioning arrangements for education, health and care provision, informed by a clear assessment of local needs. This multi-agency 