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?
Implementation
0-25 SEN and
Disabled
Childrens
Board
Personal Budgets
Early Years
Working Group
Post 16
Working Group
Local Offer
Specialist
Provision
Mapping
Working Group
Multi –Agency
Assessment
Pathway (EHCP)
Threshold
Criteria/
Guidance
Working
Group
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 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 EHCP
Early years pathway
Transition into adulthood
Criteria for assessment
• Education
• Health
• Social Care
• Requests for
assessment
We are working • Criteria for assessment
on
• Digital communications
• Requests for assessment
• Provisions mapping
• Conversion timetable
• Dispute resolution
• Annual reviews
Training/development
Training and • Pathfinder support
development • Personalised Budgets, Key
Worker training, coproduction, 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
Communication
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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!
View and comment
• Shropshire.gov.uk
• Senteam@shropshire.gov.uk
• Tel: 01743254395