Bath & North East Somerset - SEND reform project plan – outline workstreams and timeline
Summer 2013 – prep stage –
Autumn term 2013 – stage 1 –
mapping & planning
engagement & design
Deadline 30/9/13
Deadline 31/12/13
Engagement &
Map stakeholders, forums,
Stakeholder event Sept 23rd
communications
networks
Parent carers event Oct 22nd
Any new groups needed?
Use existing groups across
Communication strategy
network as far as possible
Web pages
Support engagement at
Start identifying
settings/schools/providers level
champions/reference group
Stage 1 briefing
Initial briefing
Workforce development
Outline training strategy
Training for pilot team (inc parents
& YP)
Skills audits
Defining required skill sets
Regional themed workshops
Options for integration
Integrated assessment
and planning
Audit and mapping – current
young people, processes –
including early years and 16-25 –
linked to mapping of budgets and
decision making
Design principles
What needs to change and how?
Invite settings/schools/ providers
to be champion/pilot sites?
Local offer
Mapping current pathways
Design principles
Define support available to
settings/schools/providers to
develop own local offers
In principle decisions on joint
commissioning, budget pooling,
integrated working
Map current finances, provision,
contracts, decision-making
processes – linked to audit and
mapping of young people
Joint commissioning &
personal budgets
Project governance
Establish steering group &
governance arrangements
Identify key people in each area
Project plan
System design – process,
template, eligibility, panels
Pathway design
Establish assessment & planning
pilot team
Identify pilot group
Identify IT requirements for pilot
Integrated working design for
additional SEN support
1-1 input from pathfinder
Pathway design
Local offer design
Settings/schools/providers start to
develop local offers with parents
and YP
Virtual/shadow budgets
alignment, decision-making
process design
Personal budget options –
systems needed, potential
benefits
1-1 input from pathfinder
Sign off designs
Review progress
Bath & North East Somerset – SEND reform project plan – outline of workstreams and timeline – v1 – 30/7/13
Spring term 2014 – stage 2 –
testing
Deadline 4/4/14
Use existing and groups across
network
Support engagement at
settings/schools/providers level
Stage 2 briefing
Summer term 2014 – stage 3 –
refinement & launch
Deadline 23/7/14
Stakeholder event June/July
System launch
Stage 3 briefing
Summer break/autumn term
2014 – go live & review
Deadline 31/12/14
Ongoing engagement strategy
Go live briefing
Integrated assessment & planning
training
General training – wider workforce
– principles and integrated working
in additional SEN support
Regional themed workshops
Refining required skill sets
Refine options for integration
System testing – pilot – for some
YP approaching each key stage
transition and some/all(?) new
assessments
Develop IT as needed
Pilot/testing integrated working for
additional SEN support
IAP training – key staff
General training – wider workforce
– principles and integrated working
in SEN
Proposals and consultation for any
workforce changes
Regional themed workshops
Review training
Ongoing training embedded in
workforce training strategy
Workforce changes as needed
Continued system testing/pilot and
refinement
Refine integrated assessment and
planning
Refine and launch integrated
working framework for additional
SEN support
Develop IT as needed and define
future IT requirements
System go live
Transitioning over 2/3 years – for
YP approaching key stage
transitions?
First reviews of integrated plans
Ongoing QA and improvement
Mapping – information gathering,
analysis and linking
Settings/schools/providers
completing local offers with parents
and YP
Pilot/test budget alignments and
decision-making
Develop PB processes for trial
(SEN/SC) and implementation
(health/CHC )
Start making changes to contracts
as needed
Local offer completion & launch?
Ongoing local offer review
strategy/system – annually?
Implement & pilot PB’s for
CHC/SEN
Refine system
Implement PB’s as option for all
integrated plans
Ongoing review, improvement and
extension of PB system
Review progress
Sign off final systems and local
offer
Review progress
Final review
Establish ongoing structures to
sustain continuous improvement