Hampshire Green Paper
Pathfinder Project Approach
Part of the South East 7 (SE7) SEND
Pathfinder group of local authorities
www.nhs.uk
Who are the SE7?
The SE7 authorities are:
• Brighton and Hove City Council
• East Sussex County Council (SE7 lead authority)
• Hampshire County Council
• Kent County Council
• Medway Council
• Surrey County Council
• West Sussex County Council
The SE7 also includes 4 Health areas:
• NHS Kent and Medway
• NHS Sussex – covering Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and
West Sussex
• Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth PCT
Cluster
• NHS Surrey
Hampshire SEND Approach
Hampshire, as part of the SE7 group of authorities,
was successful in applying to be a Pathfinder to test
the core and optional activities set out within the
Green Paper. The activity areas to be tested all have
terms of reference developed and are as follows:
– Core Activities
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Integrated Assessment and Single Plan
To define and set out the Local Core Offer
To establish a trial for Personal Budgets
Strengthened multi-agency commissioning and collaboration
– Optional Activities
• Support to Parents and Carers including support requirements,
key working and mediation/redress
• Banded Funding
• Age Range and Employment: Transition
• Vulnerable (looked after) children
What we aim to do
• Test proposals across the age range 0-25 years with
families recruited to participate within the Pathfinder
work
• Work across children’s social care, adult social care,
education and health services
• Apply sound project management principles (Project
Initiation Document, Highlight Reports to the Change
Board, Checkpoint Reports, Project Plan, Risk Log
etc.)
• Fully involve key stakeholders, from the outset,
throughout the different aspects of the Pathfinder
work. These particularly include:
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Parent/carers
The voluntary and community sector
Schools (mainstream and special)
Health
SQW
Evaluation
Mott McDonald
Support Agency
Department for Education &
Department of Health
Joint Working Group
SE7 SEND Regional Steering Group
VCS Grant Aided Bodies
Local
Regional
National
SEND Pathfinder Governance
SE7 SEND Change Board
Hampshire Green Paper Pathfinder
Hampshire Core Project Team
Hampshire Wider Project Team
Support Services
Council for Disabled
Children Strategic VCS
Partner for SEND to DfE
SE7 SEND
Pathfinder leads
Strategic
Multi-Agency Core Project Team led by the
Hampshire Area Pathfinder Lead and
supported by a Project Manager
Operational
Hampshire SE7 SEND local
multi-agency Change Board
Tactical
Hampshire Governance Structure
Multi-agency workstreams, with an identified working group
lead, to undertake and deliver the Pathfinder activity
Hampshire Workstream “Jigsaw”
Multi-agency commissioning and delivery
(Health; social care; education)
Specialist: Most
complex needs
Path Plan
Personal budgets
(self directed
support)
Support to
Parents and Carers
Specialist: Most
complex needs
• Defining the key worker role
• Resolving differences of opinion
• Improving parental
confidence
Local Core Offer
(looked after
Framework of services
children)
&
available, and how to
access them, for children
Transition to
with SEN and/or disabilities
employment for young
and their families
adults
Vulnerable
children
0 to 25 year age range
Accessibility
Transparency
Integrated
Assessment
and Single Plan
Who is involved?
Local Change Board membership
• Deputy Director Children’s
Services (Children and
Families)
• Pathfinder Lead/County
Services Manager SEN
• Integrated Disability
Manager, Children’s
Services
• Assistant Director Adult
Services LD/MH
• Adult Services
Commissioning Manager
and Transition Lead
• Educational Psychology
Manager
• Early Years Manager
• Parent Partnership Officer
• Parent/carer representatives
(x2)
• Voluntary and community
sector representatives (x2)
• Primary and Secondary
mainstream school
representative
• Special School
representative
• College/FE representative
• Assistant Director Child
Health Commissioner, NHS
Hampshire
• Community Paediatrician,
NHS Hampshire
• Project Manager and
Project Support
Key workstreams and recent activity
• Assessment and Single Plan
– Draft assessment process and guidance
– Draft Single Plan template and guidance
– Family recruitment for testing proposals
• Personal Budgets
– Work plan developed
– Unit costing and resource allocation system under
development
• Local Core Offer
– Regional framework being developed by Parent
Partnership Services and Parent/carer Network for
local population Autumn 2012
Key workstreams and recent activity
• Support to Parents and Carers
– Workplan developed
– Key worker desk top research and development
– Mediation and redress desk top research
• Age Range and Employment: Transition
– Workplan developed for pathways to employment
• Looked after Children (LAC)
– Regional co-ordination of work programme and
testing cohort of LAC
Assessment and Single Plan: SE7 Regional Family Led
Principles
Child and family led
Child centred
‘the process is led by us and we
own and hold the information and
the plan. Our contributions are
valued and respected’
Holistic
‘our child is seen as a whole
person and all of his/her needs
are considered’
‘my child is at the centre of the
process and it takes full
account of his/her views and
wishes’
Transparent
‘we understand the process
and how decisions are made’
Prioritised
Clear
‘everything is in plain language
and we
understand it’
Creative solutions
‘the process allows my family
and our practitioners to be
creative and not just restricted
by what is available now’
The Family Led
Principles
will describe the
child’s
and family's
experience
Empowered practitioners
and parent carers
‘the system will trust
practitioners to make
responsible decisions with us’
Responsibilities
Family resilience
‘the plan will help my family to
manage our day to day lives,
building on our own knowledge,
skills and expertise’
‘we will agree together the
priority order of the outcomes
and the plan will be the road
map to achieving these.’
Time specific
‘we know what will happen
when’
Outcomes focused
‘the process will be based on
long term and shorter term
aspirations for our child’
‘we know who should do what
and when and this is set out in
the plan’
Assessment and Single Plan: SE7 Regional Framework
First contact
Needing help and
support/join the
pathfinder
Review
and
learn
Family and key worker
undertake child/family centred
review of outcomes, to
include audit of any direct
payments and personal
budget. Learn. Identify next
steps and amend plan if
necessary. Set date for next
review
Listen
and
understand
Collect information, collate
knowledge, identify gaps in
understanding, explore and identify
the wider resources available (family,
VCS and statutory and other).
Additional expert assessment
commissioned if needed. Decide
whether a plan is required.
Child and Family centred
The Family Led Principles
will describe the child’s
and family's experience
Plan
Agree
and
allocate
Agree action, signpost to services,
and targeted resources. Identify
practitioner to be involved in first
TAC. Identify and agree desired
outcomes and their priority.
Allocate resource and/or personal
budget, set up planning meeting.
Family and key worker develop child and family
centred plan, including input from identified
experts, building on all resources using the
personal budget to make best use of these and to
put in place additional support to needed to
achieve agreed individual outcomes.
First contact
Needing help or
support
Listen
and
understand
Agree
and
allocate
A family or practitioner who identifies that the child or young person has additional
needs and may benefit from a single assessment and plan will inform a single contact
who will arrange for a key worker to make contact with the parent carers.
The key worker will contact the family will help them to collate all the current
assessment information. Any additional assessment information needed will be
sought. All assessment information will be held jointly by the parent carer and the key
worker.
The parent carers, key worker with other relevant practitioners will agree the strengths,
weaknesses and needs of the child or young person. Together they will agree the desired
individual outcomes for the child and agree a priority for these. This information will
provide the basis for the allocation of a personal budget, if appropriate.
Plan
The parent carers, key worker and relevant practitioners develop a plan for the support
that will be needed for the child or young person and their family to achieve the
identified outcomes. The plan will set out accountabilities and time-scales. It will be
held jointly by the parent carer and the key worker. If a personal budget has been
allocated the plan will set out how this will be used to add to the resources being used
to support the child.
Review
and
learn
The parent carers, key worker and relevant practitioners will agree how often the plan
should be reviewed. It will be reviewed when there are any significant changes to the
child or young person’s or their family’s situation. The review will inform the
development of an updated plan based on revised resource allocation as appropriate. If
a personal budget is being used then review will include audit.
Assessment and Single Plan:
Hampshire testing and families
Test area
• One district area within Hampshire
First contact
Participants
• 20 children and young people and their parents or carers plus 20 as a
comparison group.
Age groups
• Five pre-school children (two years before school admission)
• Five children in year 4
• Five children in year 9
• Five young people post 16
Characteristics
• Children or young people will require services from two out of three of
education, health and social care.
• The post-16 group will all be in FE college
• Of the remaining participants, at least one child will be in a special
school, one will be a new request for statutory assessment, one will be
in care, and most will be due to have an review of an existing statement
or plan in the summer term.
Draft Hampshire Assessment Pathway (1)
Each family participating in the trial will be allocated a key worker,
who will be responsible for guiding them through the process.
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Pathfinder support workers will visit potential families to ask
whether they are willing to participate in the trial.
Participation is entirely voluntary, and your statutory
entitlements under existing special educational needs
legislation will not be affected.
Once a family has agreed to participate in the pilot, a key
worker will be allocated to the family and will arrange an
initial meeting.
The SEN officer will contact the child’s headteacher (if the
child is in school) to explain the pathfinder.
Draft Hampshire Assessment Pathway (2)
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Key worker will meet with parents/carers and the young
person if appropriate to discuss the process and the single
plan
The family and key worker will consider any existing
assessment information together and will complete the
first page of the Single Plan, which includes background
information and the child’s medical and other history.
The family and key worker will discuss the child’s progress
and identify whether any further assessments are needed,
and who might need to contribute to a single plan covering
Health, Social Care and Education.
The family and key worker will agree next steps and time
scales. Timescales will need to be negotiated according to
circumstances, but any statutory timescales will stand
under the new process.
Draft Hampshire Assessment Pathway (3)
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The key worker will contact the administrative coordinator at
Hampshire County Council who will request assessments and
further information from other professionals.
The administrative coordinator will chase contributions as
appropriate and will forward any reports or assessments to the key
worker and family as they are received.
The key worker will liaise with the administrative coordinator about
progress against timescales and the key worker will keep the
family informed.
Once all reports and assessments are in, the family and key worker
meet to discuss new information and agree a comprehensive
account of the child’s strength and needs across Health, Social
Care and Education, which are then drafted onto the single plan.
The family and key worker discuss who should be at a meeting with
them to discuss and agree the draft plan and when and where this
should be held.
The key worker will arrange the meeting.
Draft Hampshire Assessment Pathway (4)
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Meeting to formalise the plan takes place.
Actions, responsibilities and time scales will be agreed and
recorded.
Arrangements for monitoring progress against the plan will
be agreed.
Agreement about who will receive copies of the plan.
Key worker will make informal contact with parents within
two weeks of the planning meeting to review the
assessment and single plan process
Reviews take place as agreed on plan.
Updated plans will be circulated as necessary.
Single Plan Proposed Hampshire Template (1)
CHILD/YOUNG PERSON’S PLAN
Name of child/young person
Male
Date of Birth
National Curriculum Year Group
Address
Child’s parent or person responsible
Preschool/ School/ College
Female
Single Plan Proposed Hampshire Template (2)
Key Background Information
Important things about my life now and in the future”
Single Plan Proposed Hampshire Template (3)
Summary of child/young person’s strengths
“Things I am good at”
Single Plan Proposed Hampshire Template (3)
Summary of evidence-based needs
As reported by
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6.
“Things I think I need help with”
Single Plan Proposed Hampshire Action Plan
Date of plan
People involved in planning
Key targets
Actions
Name of planning and monitoring coordinator
Review date
By whom?
By when?
Hampshire Assessment and Single Plan
Timescales
• Proposed assessment pathway developed March to
May 2012
• Single Plan template and approach developed
April/May 2012
• Families identified and recruited May and June 2012
• Key worker roles defined, personnel agreed and
training provided June/July 2012
• Testing with recruited families July to October 2012
• Evolution of proposed process July to October 2012
• Evaluation of approach September to December
2012
Hampshire Area Contacts
Felicity Dickinson, Pathfinder Lead
childrens.services.communications@hants.gov.uk
Hampshire area website:
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/childrensservices/specialneeds/se7sendpathfinder.htm
SE7 Public website:
http://www.se7pathfinder.co.uk/