SEND ReformsImportant developments in the world

of SEND

Jenny ClenchPathfinder lead

Head of Inclusion Support25.04.13.

Governor Services

Inclusion Support Services

Music Services

Standards and Learning Effectiveness ServiceTargeted Youth Support

Youth Offending Team Childcare Sufficiency SEN and Disability

Locality Services

Looked After Children Services

Capital Strategy Team Contracts Management

School Admissions and Transport

Complaints

Data and Management Information

Equality and Participation Performance Management

Schools ICT (Applications)

Quality Assurance including Safeguarding

Services to Schools

Workforce Development and OD

Children’s Centres Keyworker Service

The new SEN system is underpinned by a number of key principles.

• Early identification of need• High expectations and aspirations for what C&YP with SEND can

achieve.• Focus on outcomes that C&YP and their families want to achieve.• Choice and control over the support they/their children receive.• Participation is central, person- centred planning is key.• Greater collaboration between Education Health and Care.• Clarity of roles and responsibilities.• High quality provision.• A skilled workforce to deliver excellent outcomes.

Co-production is an important feature of these reforms.

Ladder of involvement

Co-production

Participation

Consultation

Information

Co-production

“Co-production means delivering public services in an equal and reciprocal relationship between professionals, people using services, their families and their neighbours. Where activities are co-produced in this way, both services and neighbourhoods become far more effective agents of change.” Boyle and Harris, 2009, The Challenge of Co-production.

Parent carers are central to and key partners in the SE7 SEND Pathfinder activity which is a learning process for all parties.

In our Pathfinder, effective parent carer co-production is whereparent carers have conversations with and work alongside professionals in order to design, develop and improve services.

Draft legislation - key highlights

• New requirement for local authorities, health and care services to commission services jointly, to ensure that the needs of disabled children and young people and those with SEN are met.

• LAs to publish a clear, transparent ‘local offer’ of services, so parents and young people can understand what is available.

• More streamlined assessment process, which integrates education, health and care services, and involves children and young people and their families.

• New 0-25 Education, Health and Care Plan, replacing the current system of Statements and Learning Difficulty Assessments, which reflects the child or young person’s aspirations for the future, as well as their current needs.

• New statutory protections for young people aged 16-25 in FE and a stronger focus on preparing for adulthood.

• Academies, Free Schools, Further Education and Sixth Form colleges to have the same SEN duties as maintained schools.

• Option of a personal budget for families and young people with a Plan, extending choice and control over their support.

Key differences to current systems• Coproduced• Transparent• Person centred• Outcomes focused• Holistic – needs to be well linked with other systems and processes - not siloed• Tell us once approach• Single point of contact• Family led• Not a back office function or paper driven process• Much more face to face contact between plan coordinators, parents and professionals• More in depth reviews• Much wider age range and larger numbers

– so our response cannot remain the same …….

Key learning from the Pathfinder• Involvement of young people and their

parents needs to be from the start• Assessment and planning must be

personalised and holistic• Outcomes must be aspirational and longer

term as well as shorter term• Culture change is essential for schools,

services and families• The Local Offer is key and must be got right• There are no short cuts

the Family Led Principles

will describe the child’s

and family's experience

Person centred

Child and family led

Creative solutions

Family resilience

Empoweredpractitioners and

parent carers

HolisticTransparent

Clear Prioritised

AccountabilitiesTime specific

Outcomesfocused

Core principles underpinning assessment and planning in the SE7 SEND Pathfinder

The East Sussex key learning

• Families have embraced the personalised approach to assessment and planning

• Families have responded well to greater aspirations for their youngsters.

• Families have reported a more positive experience with the LA.