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Education Support, Behaviour and Attendance Service for Maintained Schools

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Cannot fault the service.

The Behaviour and Attendance Officer’s support has been outstanding.

School

We didn’t have any repeats of bullying. He is happy at his new school, and has made lots of new friends, hopefully using some of the skills you taught him.

Parent

All I wanted was to be back at school and I’m here now.

Child

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We believe that children have more chance of achieving their full educational potential, if they attend school and behave well. All children can realise their full potential, some just need a little more help to do so.

At the heart of the Education Support, Behaviour and Attendance Service is a set of core values. These include:

• Providing high quality support which makes a real difference to schools, children and families

• Interventions are flexible enough to meet the needs of schools, children and families

• Support is provided on a sound understanding of the local context and the particular needs of schools, children and families.

We have aligned our services to support the core needs of schools with delivery targets and key performance indicators, including those within the Ofsted framework.

All of our support is delivered by highly skilled practitioners who will bring a range of additional skills to your school. With our specialist

support packages, you will be buying time to do the pieces of work that your staff do not have the flexibility to do themselves, whether this is working with families in their home or providing one-to-one support outside of the classroom. Alongside our direct work, we will provide your staff with high quality advice, guidance and training that will allow you to maximise the full potential of children you have today, and those you will have in the future.

Our core beliefs and values

Children have said

“I am incredibly grateful to you all for getting me through my exams and hopefully doing well”“Stopped me getting as much on call in school”

We employ a team of skilled staff who are dedicated to working alongside schools to meet your priorities. As a paying customer, you will be able to dictate how we work in your school and the length of any intervention.

In order to help you determine how much support you will need, we have developed a simple and transparent pricing structure that is based around the concept of units. Schools are invited to purchase a block of units that can then be used to ‘buy’ interventions. Any piece of work we undertake in a school will be priced in terms of units; this includes all the work that is needed to deliver an identified intervention. There are no hidden extra costs.

We understand that the needs of a school can change quickly. If you plan to use units for a particular piece of work but then find you want to use the units on another intervention, then we have the capacity and flexibility to enable you to do this.

Units can be bought at any point but to get best value we recommend agreeing an amount at the beginning of the year. We will keep you informed

as to how you are spending them so as to maximise value. If you need to buy more, you can do that at any point, in blocks of 50 units. It’s that simple. As a paying customer, you will help shape the interventions that we deliver on your behalf.

We have grouped our interventions into 3 main thematic areas, to help illustrate the range of interventions that we are able to provide. This gives a flavour of what we are able to do to support you and your school; these lists are not exhaustive.

How We Support Schools

Schools have said

“We have been most impressed with the persistence shown by the B&A Officer in resolving this on-going problem.”

Attendance SupportSchools can access statutory support for concerns in relation to protracted poor attendance. Referrals should be made via Behaviour and Attendance Partnerships (for secondary schools) or directly to area Team Leaders (for primary and special schools). There is no charge for statutory work.

Where schools would like us to conduct non-statutory or more preventative interventions, these can be bought with ESBAS units.

Behaviour SupportEast Sussex Maintained Schools have agreed for the budget for Behaviour Support Services to be pooled by the Local Authority and managed on behalf of all schools to provide an equitable offer across the county. In order to ensure a fair offer to all schools, and to allow for greater flexibility in terms of supporting children with the most challenging behaviour, as well as having the option to use support in a more preventative way, the funding for Behaviour Support has been split into three “Blocks” of units

Red Block – 40% of the funding is converted into units and is focussed on the top tier of children i.e. those with the greatest needs and are at serious risk of permanent exclusion from school. Access to this is on a needs-led referral basis, via B&A Partnerships for maintained secondary schools, and directly to ESBAS for maintained primary schools. Children supported in this “block” would be allocated a number of units depending on need.

Green Block – 30% of the funding is converted into ESBAS units and allocated to maintained schools according to a formula (based on NOR, IDACI and FSM). This will allow schools to request support directly, and benefit from early interventions.

Blue Block – 20% of the funding is converted to ESBAS units and allocated to all maintained schools, irrespective of size or needs-based formula. This will provide a ‘core’ offer to all schools and allow universal access to the service alleviating concerns from schools in more rural locations.

All maintained schools receive confirmation of the amount of their Green Block and Blue Block Units allocations at the beginning of the financial year.

Additional units can be bought at any point, but to get best value we recommend agreeing an amount at the beginning of the year. We will keep you informed as to how you are spending them so as to maximise value. If you need to buy more, then you can do that at any point.

The cost of an individual unit reduces the more you buy.

Secondary SchoolsNumber of units Price0-150 £70151-300 £65301-450 £62450+ £58

Primary SchoolsNumber of units Price0-150 £65151-300 £60

Improving Attendance Improving Behaviour Strategic and Developmental Support

• Bespoke intervention package for referred children, including the following according to need (10 units per Case):

» Support at home and school, including CAF » Multi-agency liaison » Peer support » Attendance Meetings » Target setting, monitoring, review » 1 : 1 mentoring » Anti- bullying support » Transition support » Late Swoop (1-2 units) » Truancy Sweep (2 units)

• ‘Get a Life’ attendance initiative for small groups or classes, including ‘Get Started’, ‘Get Ready’ and ‘Get Smart’ (10 units - 10 groups / classes)

• Attendance at parent consultation evenings (1 unit)

• Specialist assembly on attendance (1 unit)

• Specialist Parenting Support at transition phases (6 units)

• Specialist assembly / lessons on child employment and entertainment (1 unit)

• Bespoke intervention package for referred children, including the following according to need (15-17 units per Case):

» Observation and Assessment of individual student for advice on teaching strategies appropriate to student’s needs

» CAF and Risk assessment completed for vulnerable pupils

» Coping strategies for students in the classroom » Anti-bullying support » Personalised transition support, including In

Year admission reintegration support » Support to young people on PFL placements

and alternative programmes » Professional advice for children with SEN » Home / school mediation service

• Targeted small group support for students to manage and control their anger / behaviour, including restorative mediation practice (12 units)

• Programme of Emotional Literacy assessment and support (12 units)

• Social Skills programmes and group work (12 units)

• Legal action parenting orders (6 units)

• Six week programme of specialist parenting support (6 units)

• Preparing for Ofsted inspections or annual review in areas of behaviour, safety and attendance and supporting Schools with their SEN Local Offer (6 units)

• Classroom behaviour management skills and strategies for individual teachers (3 units)

• BESD support to SENCOs (3 units)

• Coaching and Reflective Practice for staff working with children displaying considerable behavioural challenge (6 units)

• Support school staff in developing and delivering Restorative Mediation (6 units)

• Behaviour and Attendance Data Analysis for strategic development, including Register Audit (2 units)

• SIMS Attendance module training (1 unit)

• Attendance Training for school officers and all staff (1 unit)

• Functional Behaviour Analysis with Advisory Strategies (4 units)

• Anti bullying Toolkit training (6 units)

• Whole school approach to anti bullying (3 units)

• Supporting schools with PSP development and review (3 units)

Examples of how schools and academies might spend their unitsSchools are free to choose the available support and intervention from the menu after an audit of need, provided units amount to the package purchased.An example of the range of support and intervention that each package will purchase is given below and is delivered by ESBAS officers, according to expertise and experience.

Maintained Primary School A were allocated 10 Blue Block Units, 25 Green Block Units and in addition to this purchased 50 ESBAS

Units at a cost of £3,250Total Units 85

They spent their units in the following way• Bespoke Improving Behaviour intervention packages for 3 children

(51 units)• Truancy Sweep (2 units)• 2 staff Training sessions (10 units)• Social Skills programmes and group work (12 units)• Bespoke Improving Attendance intervention package for 1 child (10 Units)

This maintained school also referred 2 behaviour support cases which were accepted and utilised the Red Block

Maintained Secondary School were allocated 35 Blue Block Units, 50 Green Block Units and in addition to this purchased 315 ESBAS

Units at a cost of £19,530Total Units 385

They spent their units in the following way • Bespoke Improving Attendance intervention packages for 15 children

(150 units)• Bespoke Improving Behaviour intervention packages for 12 children

(180 units)• 6 week programme of specialist parenting support (6 units)• Preparing for Ofsted inspections or annual review in areas of behaviour,

safety and attendance and supporting Schools with their SEN Local Offer (6 units)

• 4 Attendance Panels (max 6 pupils per panel) (40 units)

This maintained school also referred 7 behaviour support cases which were accepted and utilised the Red Block

Primary Academy B Bought 180 units at a cost of £10,800They spent their units in the following way

• Bespoke Improving Attendance intervention packages for 6 children (60 units)

• Bespoke Improving Behaviour intervention packages for 6 children (102 units)

• Preparing for Ofsted inspections or annual review in areas of behaviour, safety and attendance and supporting Schools with their SEN Local Offer (6 units)

• Anti-Bullying Tool Kit Training (6 units)• BESD support to SENCOs (3 units)

Primary Academy B carried over 3 units to the following year

Secondary Academy D Bought 450 units at a cost of £28,242They spent their units in the following way

• Bespoke Improving Attendance intervention packages for 10 children (100 units)

• Bespoke Improving Behaviour intervention packages for 16 children (240 units)

• Targeted small group support for students to manage and control their anger/behaviour, including restorative mediation practice (12 units)

• 2 ‘Get a Life’ attendances for small groups or classes, including ‘Get Started’, ‘Get Ready’ and ‘Get Smart’ (20 units)

• Behaviour and Attendance Data Analysis for strategic development, including Register Audit (2 units)

• Coaching and Reflective Practice for staff working with children displaying considerable behavioural challenge (6 units)

• 4 Attendance Panels (max 6 pupils per panel) (40 units)

Secondary Academy D carried over 30 units to the following year

Getting more copies of this leafletYou can get all our leaflets in large print, easy read format, in Braille, on audio tape or CD, or in other languages.

They are also available in PDF form, which you can download from our website at eastsussex.gov.uk

East Sussex County CouncilCounty HallSt Anne’s CrescentLewes BN7 1UEPhone: 0345 60 80 190Fax: 01273 481261Website: eastsussex.gov.uk/contactus

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