SEND Report - pengreen.org€¦ · SEND Report (September 2016 – August 2017) LAC At the beginning of September 2016 we had 4 LAC children in the nursery. 2 went on to be successfully

SEND Report (September 2016 – August 2017)



Pen Green Nursery and Children’s Centre SEND REPORT 2016-2017

This academic year we have worked with many children with a number of

different needs;

Hearing Impaired /Profoundly Deaf

Global Delay

ASD

Speech and language delay and/or disorder

Social Communication Difficulties

Personal, Social & Emotional difficulties

Physical Difficulties

Attachment Difficulties

Chromosome Abnormalities

Epilepsy

Dravet Syndrome

Cerebral Palsy

Pierre Robin Syndrome

Ataxia

Genetic problems

Arthritus

Throughout the year staff worked with these children, their families and any

necessary external services to support their progress whilst in nursery.

SEND Figures for 2016 – 2017

SEND register

Throughout the academic year 2016-2107 there were a total of 50 children on

the SEND register.

27 for school cohort 2016/2017 (including two school deferrals).

23 children for school cohort 2017-2018 (This includes Kingswood children)

School cohort 2016-2017

15 SEND Action children (Wave 1)

6 Action Plus children (Wave 2)


6 EHCP (Wave 3)

School cohort 2017-2018

10 SEND Action Plus (Wave 1)

12 SEND Action (Wave 2)

1 (Wave 3) no EHCP

1:1 funding for children with SEND – funding through High Needs

13 children in the nursery /Nest/ Couthie were awarded High Needs Funding

and were having extra support. There have been 10 1:1 workers employed to

support them in their domain.

Education, Health and Care Plans

We made a request for 6 children to be assessed for an Education, Health

and Care Plan, these requests were accepted and 5 children now have their

plans and transitioned into school in September with their plans that will

outline the support they will require. One child deferred entry to reception

until 2018 and has stayed in Nursery. Transition meetings for children

transferring to school went smoothly and four of the children moved to

Designated Special Provision, and one child moved to a mainstream school

with support.

EHAs

The nursery staff led on 29 EHAs to support families. 9 of these were children

with SEND and the SENDco Support worker was the lead practitioner.

EAL

The nurseries had 68 children on role who were EAL with 13 languages spoken.

7 of these children have had SEND identified and support was put in place.

The language support worker worked closely with the parents and the SEND

team to ensure that these children had the support they needed to make

progress.


LAC

At the beginning of September 2016 we had 4 LAC children in the nursery. 2

went on to be successfully adopted and one went into long term foster care.

In January 2017 we had another LAC child join us and that meant we had

two LAC children in our care.

Both children have had the Educational Psychologist to observe them in

nursery, this was requested at their PEP meetings. These reports have

influenced their SEND action plans as both children were working below their

peers in Personal, Social and Emotional development. Both children are still

with us and a sibling has also joined the infant toddler provision.

SEND Groups

There has been a steady increase in the children and parents attending our

SEND groups, Little Sparkles, Premature Babies and Let’s Play Together. This

has had an impact of the number of children with SEND who are coming into

nursery with complex needs.


SEND Trips

In February the SEND team organised a coach trip to the local farm park for

SEND children and their families. 15 Families joined the day and a picnic lunch

was provided. The money to pay from the trip was a carry forward from the

successful bid from the summer.

Unfortunately we were unsuccessful in our other bids for extra money this year

to provide trips out for SEND children and families over the summer period.

Special Needs Playscheme

Special Needs Playscheme took place over 6 days in the August summer

holidays. The playscheme was advertised on Social Media, in the SNIX

magazine and on the Local Offer. The playscheme was attended by 10

children, with a number of complex needs and had a grant from the County

to help to finance the running of it. Staff from nursery and the Centre

supported the scheme.

CQC Inspection

Pen Green have been part of the QCQ Inspection for SEND for the local

authority. The inspector came to nursery and spoke to CLT and then to


parents. He was very impressed by the number of parents that attended the

meeting. Parents spoke enthusiastically about the support available at Pen

Green and eloquently about the rights of their children.

SEND Training

A SEND video of Pen Green nursery children was shared with

the Speech and Language Innovations Team for the county.

This led to the offer of Picture Exchange Communication

(PEC’s) training for the Pen Green staff by the team from the

county. This is now embedded in the nursery practice and

working well with children who have no spoken language.

Staff have also been trained by the Community Nurse to use a heart monitor

for one of the children in the Snug who has a life limiting condition.

Staff have also undertaken training in tracheostomy and suction training and

Peg care for another child in the provision.

At Kingswood, the Community Nurse Team provided epilepsy awareness

training for the staff.

SENDco Support worker and two other members of staff are undertaking a

British Sign Language course to enhance her skills in communicating with

children and adults with communication difficulties and the hearing impaired.

The course will be completed in October 2017 and this training will now be

held at Pen Green from November 2017 and is open to five members of Pen

Green Staff.

DFE Projects

The SEND team have been supporting local PVI’s with implementing SEND

reforms and offering evening sessions to troubleshoot any issues through the

DfE project 4.


The PVI’s were offered free training in Attachment, Emotional Well-being,

Form Filling for High Needs Funding and EHCP’s, IPSEA and Autism. The SEND

team joined with the Northamptonshire Improvement Mentoring Partnership

(NIMP) to offer the Autism training and the turnout was very high with 22

practitioners attending. A Pen Green parent gave an account of what living

with a child with an ASD diagnosis is like. The NCC Early Year Support worker

attended the sessions and gave positive feedback about the event.

Staff engaged in the SEND expert group with a focus on a celebratory

assessment tool for children with SEND. The toolkit will have training materials

and a DVD to support practitioners in their assessment of children with SEND.

The assessment tool will be ready to be launched in October 2017.

Centre staff have now completed Level 2 IPSEA training. This now means that

we have 5 members of staff who have undertaken this training. An IPSEA

lawyer will be joining us every Monday to support parents with SEND issues.

The SEND team have been teaching on the DFE project Cache Level 4 to 18

delegates from across the country. The Level 4 had a focus of SEND but was a

fully inclusive training course for all children.

At the NNSP conference in March 2017, staff delivered a case study about a

nursery child with SEND/EAL and his family, highlighting all of the services that

they used while at Pen Green. This event was attended by 110 people from

across the county.

The SEND governor, parent and three staff attended 2020 VISION event led by

NCC. This conference was organised to think about the future of SEND in the

county. (March 2017)

Pen Green staff and volunteers took part in the NCC Local Offer Summer

SENDsation in June 2017. They promoted the SEND offer from Pen Green and

Kingswood.


Two staff attended the Council for Disabled Children event to work with the

LA’s in the East Midlands to support the implementation of the SEND reforms.

Two families have been helped with ADOS appointments with the

Educational Psychologist and the Community Paediatrician and their children

have been given a diagnosis of Autism.

Four DLA forms have been successfully completed which were supported by

the SEND co Support worker.

SEND team have applied for grants and funding to the Sylvia Adams Trust and

Thomas Cook Charity and a number of private trusts for funding to support

ongoing SEND work in the Centre. To date we have not been successful but

will keep on trying. The bids are to pay for some of the rooms in in the Centre

to be more accessible friendly for SEND children and their families.

The Special Needs Dentist supported Let’s Play Together group in May and

gave out advice to parents regarding dental hygiene which is very important

if children are having lots of medication.


Syndromes Without a Name (SWAN) charity have been to look at the Centre

to use it for a weekend fund raising event. They are looking at Christmas 2017

for their event.

The SEND team have worked especially hard through the academic year

2016-2017 and one parent’s feedback about the support she had from the

team is a testimony to all the hard work.

A Parent’s Voice

Goodbye Pen Green!

Pen Green children's centre is the nursery (it's much more than a nursery) that

has played such an intrinsic part in our family's journey with autism so far.

When Authur and I walked out of pen green at the end of the summer term, I

felt deep sadness and vulnerability to leave behind what feels like family and

home. They really took care of, not just Authur, but all of us. We are going to

miss them terribly 💔.

We are so lucky we found them! I can't express how grateful we are to the

staff that have helped and supported us on our journey with Authur over the

last 3 years. Those lovely ladies (Hannah his family worker, Amy the Senco,

Jordan his 1-2-1 worker and Tracy from portage) would say they were just

doing their jobs, but to us, they did much more than that. To us, they seemed

to invest their own emotions into our family and supported us through some of

the toughest times of our lives, times when we felt we had no one else to talk

to and felt like giving up. When Authur was diagnosed with autism (and

during the lead up to that) they hugged and cried with us as though they

were family ❤️ ❤

Had it not been for their support and willingness to see the world through his

eyes, I don't think he would have achieved the things he has and his life

would be set on a very different course to what it is now. They have played

such a huge part in helping us build him up.


We never felt as though we or Authur were a problem to them (even though

we probably were a little bit sometimes!), we always felt that they genuinely

wanted the best for Authur and our family. The fact that we felt that way just

shows how amazing they are at their jobs. People like them should be

rewarded for their work much more than they are.

They have armed us with the confidence and attitude we are going to need

to help Authur through life and they have provided Authur with strong

foundations from which to grow. Thank you Pen Green for setting us up for the

journey ahead of us.

Why our government seems to think its ok to make cuts of funding to amazing

places like Pen Green is beyond me. I often wonder how many other families

and children they have saved over the years? I wonder how many more they

will save in the future, provided they are able to?

I can only hope that Authur will meet more people like them who will have

genuinely open and caring minds and be able to help him through the next

part of his journey, and beyond.

I chose this photo to go with this post because I feel that a big part of why

Authur has done so well at Pen Green was because he knew he was

genuinely cared for there. Thank you again Pen green 😍. We miss you so

much already, it's the end of an era!


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SEND Report - pengreen.org€¦ · SEND Report (September 2016 – August 2017) LAC At the beginning of September 2016 we had 4 LAC children in the nursery. 2 went on to be successfully