send reforms overview

SEND Reforms Overview SEND Reforms Overview

28/04/2014

A New Way of Working

• Family Centred • 0-25• Education• Health• Social Care

Legislation• March 14 Children &

Families Bill Royal assent

• April 14 Final Draft COP

• June 14 (?) Final approval COP

• Sept 14 Children & Families Act into force

Where are we?

0-25 SEN and Disabled

Childrens Board

Personal Budgets

Local OfferMulti –Agency Assessment

Pathway (EHCP)

Post 16 Working Group

Specialist Provision MappingWorking Group

Threshold Criteria/

Guidance WorkingGroup

Early Years Working Group

Implementation

We have a draft pathway

• 20 weeks• The process

starts before week 1• One page profile

accompanies request

Working with Children and families

Families at the centre Lamb Inquiry (2009)• Highlighted the

need for greater parental involvement to improve outcomes for children and YP with SEN

Pupil ProfilePupil Profile

• Together we have created a range of Pupil profiles to chose from

• Families can devise their own

• These will accompany the request for assessment

Shropshire's EHCPShropshire's EHCP

Early years pathway

Transition into adulthood

Criteria for assessment

• Education• Health• Social Care• Requests for

assessment

We are working on

• Criteria for assessment

• Digital communications

• Requests for assessment

• Provisions mapping

• Conversion timetable

• Dispute resolution

• Annual reviews

Training/development

Training and development

• Pathfinder support• Personalised Budgets, Key

Worker training, co-production, Tribunals, Personalisation

• SENCo training• Head teacher briefings in

place for spring term• Strategic board workshop

re Health & Social Care thresholds

And more………………..,…

• In service SEN training• Clinical Commissioner

briefing health colleagues

• PACC/PPS/ SEN team information for schools events Summer term

• Members event May 14• Andrè Imich July 14

PPT/Parent/Carer links

• Membership of strategic board and subgroups

• Joint training events• Support in developing LA

communications• Contribution to request of

assessment criteria • Development of

EHCPs/Pupil Profiles• Development of panels

CommunicationCommunication

•SENCo , Head Teacher and Governors briefings Spring /Summer14.•Development of Shropshire.gov.uk and Learning Gateway sites. •SEND reforms newsletters•Individual agency briefings.•Childrens Trust Conference•Health communication briefings•PACC and Parent Partnership conferences and workshops May 14•School workshops across the county Summer term 14•Further development of communication strategy.•Information packs for all statemented pupils•André Imich event- 2nd July.

Sept 14

• Statements cease• EHCPs commence• Conversions

• The real learning begins!

Together!

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