SEN Changes – Summer 2014
Lucy Crawford
Browser change
Layout has been tidied.
New SEN Statuses – England only
New SEN Statuses added:
• E (EHCP) – Education, Health and Care
• K – SEN Support
When you will be able to use the new
statuses
• The new statuses are available in the Summer release,
but should be used from September 2014
When you will need to transfer over the old
statuses to the new statuses
K – SEN Support
• Schools will have until the end of the Summer term in
2015 to move their existing pupils from School Action
and School Action Plus over to the new K – SEN
Support
• Schools will have until the Spring 2015 Census to move
new pupils from School Action and School Action Plus to
SEN Support
When you will need to transfer over the old
statuses to the new statuses
E – EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan)
• During the transitional period (at least for the 2014 to
2015 academic year), schools will be able to record
pupils/students as having either a Statement or an
EHCP.
• Schools can record pupils as having either a Statement
or an EHCP as of 1st September 2014 (but not both)
Can I bulk update statuses?
• SIMS does allow bulk update of statuses
• The current advice would suggest not to use bulk
update, but rather to change the status of
pupils/students at the point of review (which happens
regularly enough to have occurred for students before
the timescales mentioned).
• This will allow the level of provision (recorded as
status) for each child to be reviewed, rather than
simply changed, or transferred.
New SEN Statuses
BESD Still Historical
• BESD is visible for historical need types, but is not
available to select as a new need.
• BESD is still available in the reporting dictionary if you
click ‘show all’
Transitioning away from BESD
• BESD will not end automatically in SIMS
• BESD will not be transferred over to SEMH in SIMS (as
BESD and SEMH do not mean the same thing)
• There is no bulk update for SEN Needs in SIMS
• It is suggested that when the child with SEN has a
review, that the SEN needs are reviewed (as would be
normal practice) and that the BESD need type is
changed at that point.
How to record changes from BESD
• Find SEN Student
• Open up panel 3
• Open up BESD need type by double clicking on the
record, or clicking on Open
How to record changes from BESD
• Once you’ve opened the need, add an end date, press
OK, then press Save at the top of the Student/Pupil
SEN Details Screen.
Where you can see the change from BESD
• In the Change Log:
Where you can see the change from BESD
• In the Needs History:
How to find out which students have a
BESD Need Type
You can create a report in the Reporting Dictionary to find
which students have a BESD Need Type:
1) Go to Reports | Design Report | New
2) Select to focus the report on Students/Pupils
3) Select the Students/Pupils to be On Roll
How to find out which students have a
BESD Need Type
4) Select the data fields as shown below:
5) Click on this button:
How to find out which students have a
BESD Need Type
6) Click on New at the bottom of the screen:
7) Select the following options:
How to find out which students have a
BESD Need Type
8) Select AND
9) Select the below option:
How to find out which students have a
BESD Need Type
10) Un-tick ‘Include Records with no such’
11) Click Next until you get to this option:
How to find out which students have a
BESD Need Type
12) Your report definition should look like this:
13) Click Preview
How to find out which students have a
BESD Need Type
14) Your report will look like this:
New SEN Need Types
SEN need types have been added:
• Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
• SEN Support but no Specialist Assessment of Need (NSA)
New SEN Need Types
• The new SEN Need Types are available in the Summer
release, but will only be statutory as of 1st September
2014
• You can select the new SEN Need Types when adding a
new need, or amending an existing need.
• It is suggested that if the need has changed, that the
need is ended, and a new one created.
Additional Support Fields Relabelled
• These dropdown fields are only statutory for Wales.
• The set of fields has had a title of ‘Additional Support’
added.
SEN Setup Screen Changed – Additional tick box
for Hide Additional Support (England only)
For schools in England, the ability to hide the dropdown
fields now labelled ‘Additional Support’ has been added to
the SEN Setup area, which has been combined into one
new panel for ‘SEN Settings’.
New EHCP Panel (England only)
New EHCP Panel
EHCP Panel