Sims Core
Janet de Maine
SEND Review
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Changes to SEN
• Part of an ongoing project
• Capita are making changes in line draft code of practice to
cover the statutory lookup changes. Further changes will
come in following releases when we have more definite
confirmation of the new SEN code of practice
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Changes to SEN
Spring 2014
• Start, End and recorded on dates
• Existing SEN History renamed to SEN Change Log
• New fully dated SEN Needs History
• Better historical reporting
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Changes to SEN
Summer 2014
• Statutory Changes – England only
• E – EHCP (Education Health and Care Plan)
• K – SEN Support
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Changes to SEN
Summer 2014
Changes to SEN Need Types
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Removed
BESD (Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulty)
Added
SMEH (Social, Mental and Emotional Health)
NSA (SEN Support, but no specialist assessment of need)
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Changes to SEN
Summer 2014
Ability to track application for EHCP
• New Panel on SEN Details
• Associated pop-up screen
• Similar to existing panel
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Browser change
Layout has been tidied.
New SEN Statuses – England only
New SEN Statuses added:
• E (EHCP) – Education, Health and Care
• K – SEN Support
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’
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)
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)
Tools / Setups / SEN Setup
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
Title of Statement Pending? Added
Statement Pending? - updated from Review Panel
End Of Year Procedures
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End of Year Procedures
Updated documentation can be found at :
http://faq.scomis.org/kb1491/
End of Year Presentations : http://training.scomis.org/end-of-yearprocedures-in-sims-net/
Top Tips
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Top Tips
Quick Search Bar
Search for student, contact, employee information quickly
Student Teacher View
Attendance Intervention Graph (full screen) to see detail of
behaviour, attendance and achievement
Change Requests?
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