Transcript Swindon SEND network Jan30 2014 final

SEND Briefing
SEN Network meeting
January 2014
Contact details
Paddy Bradley - Head of Commissioning
[email protected]
Gill Ilić - Commissioner for Education
[email protected]
Karen Hobbs - Commissioner Learning Disability Services
[email protected]
Caroline Little – Children’s Health Commissioner
[email protected]
Keith Blackmore – Parent and Carers Group
[email protected]
SEND Project email address [email protected]
Pathfinder website www.sendpathfinder.co.uk
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SEND briefing
Agenda items
• Funding for high needs pupils, both pre- and
post-16
• Developing the policy and procedures necessary
to implement successfully the SEND reforms
outlined in the Children and Families Bill
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School Funding Overview
• All funding for SEN (high need) pupils age 2 to
25 comes to the LA as part of the Dedicated
Schools Grant (DSG)
• The grant for 2014/15 is £148.7m and must be
shared across schools via the Schools Forum –
new formula introduced this year
• The grant is made up of “3 blocks”
(Schools/Early Years/High Needs) but it’s for
LAs to allocate this to meet needs
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Special Schools (6)
492.0 places
Special Resource Provision (15)
170.7 places
SEN & Outreach Commissioned Services (10)
Alternative Provision (2)
£14.8m
£1.2m
133 places
Portage, Statemented pupils equipment, Speech &
Language Therapy etc.
£2.1m
£0.5m
Tuition Service
40 places
£0.9m
SENRAP panel top ups to mainstream schools
433 pupils
£1.7m
Out of Borough placements
84 pupils
£2.6m
New post 16 funding responsibilities (full year)
325 pupils
£2.1m
Delegated funds to mainstream schools to support
SEN
Notional SEN top ups (to meet £6k per SEN)
18 schools
£7.1m
Integrated health and social care services for
children and young people with disabilities
£4.8m
Total High Needs Spending (indicative for
2014/15)
£38.1m
£0.3m
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SEND Reforms
Key drivers for change
• Outcomes for young people with SEND
• Bureaucratic barriers
• Young people and their families are not always
central to the process
• Transition arrangements
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New statutory responsibilities & powers for LAs
• Joint commissioning - LAs, health and care services to commission
services jointly
• Consult children, young people and their parents and cooperate with
a range of providers to deliver the new system
• Work with local partners, parents and young people to co-produce
and publish a Local Offer of SEN services
• More streamlined assessment process
• New 0-25 Education, Health and Care Plan
• A new duty on health commissioners to deliver the health elements
of EHC plans
• Option of a personal budget
• New statutory protections for young people aged 16-25 in FE
• A stronger focus on preparing for adulthood
• Academies, Free Schools, Further Education and Sixth Form colleges
to have the same SEN duties as maintained schools
National updates
Children and Families Bill
(at report stage) in the House of Lords
• Scope of Bill extended – includes all disabled children
and young people
• Require health or social care provision which “educates or
trains” to be treated as special educational provision
• Young people aged 19 to 24 - LAs to consider whether
the young person requires additional time for
education/training. Allows for education element of the
EHC plan to cease dependent on best interests of the
young person
• New duties on home LAs for children and young people in
custody
National updates
October 2013 revised Special Educational Needs (SEN) Code of
Practice and regulations – reviewing feedback.
Pathfinder programme launched in Sept 2011 – run until March
2015 - 31 LAs - Wiltshire is Swindon’s Pathfinder Champion.
In 2014-15, all local authorities will receive financial support to
implement the reforms through the SEN Reform Grant.
A new £30 million fund will allow families to access help and
support from more than 1,800 fully-trained champions across the
country.
The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) will ensure that a range
of organisations provide this totally independent help, overseeing the
recruitment and training of the independent supporters - around 12
per area - in time for the implementation of our comprehensive SEN
reforms.
The SEND Reforms in Swindon …the journey so far
• SEND Project Board
• Pathfinder Champion – new learning for everyone
• Joint commissioning contracts are in place
• SEND Project Forum meetings
• Good engagement with Parent and Carers Group
• Regular newsletters
• Focus groups and Stakeholder groups
• Case studies
• STEP working with young people to hear their voice
• Auditing current practice – identifying service gaps
• SEND Champions
Key workstreams:
• Transitions
• Developing the EHC plan and a coordinated approach
• Development of 0 -25 services
• The Local Offer
• These workstreams are integral to other key projects
SEND briefing
Preparing for Adulthood
(Transitions)
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Preparing for Adulthood Programme
Transitions Planning should identify
routes for a young person to work
towards these key life outcomes:
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Independent Living
Employment
Good Health
Social Inclusion
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Building on previous developments
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Swindon Transitions Protocol & Pathway
Moving on Plans
Person Centred Reviews
Transitions Team in Social Care
Tracking meetings – information to plan for
future need
• Personal Budgets & Direct Payments in
Social Care
• Developing local options
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Person Centred Reviews
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The approach we are taking
• Transitions Steering Group
• Case Studies & Interviews with families
• Focus Groups to work on solutions in key
areas
• Updating the Transitions Protocol
• Training & development
• Advice & information
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Links to other SEND work areas
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Education, Health & Care Plans
Local Offer – Post -16 provision
Joint Commissioning
0-25 service provision
Transitions in health services
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Links to wider projects
Adult Demand Programme:
• Advice & Information Project – new
website and information hub
• Housing & Support
• Commissioning for employment
• Voluntary Sector commissioning
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Useful links
Transition & the SEND Reforms
http://www.preparingforadulthood.org.uk/
Person Centred Planning
http://www.familiesleadingplanning.co.uk/
Local information
http://www.vas-swindon.org.uk/
http://www.swindondisa.co.uk/Home
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The Swindon Local Offer
Plans & Progress
• Work is currently focussed on two objectives:
• Developing coproduction and ongoing
involvement and feedback mechanisms
• Creating and publishing the Local Offer
• These objectives are to be met by September
2014, after which there will be continuing
development work
Coproducing the Local Offer
• Working with the Parent Carers Forum and
STEP
• Children and families will work with us to
coproduce:
– New systems, such as the Education, Health &
Care Plan
– The information contained in the Local Offer
– The ongoing coproduction mechanisms for
reviewing and developing the Local Offer
Coproducing the Local Offer
• We must annual collate feedback on the Local Offer, publish a
summary and the Local Authority’s response
• How will feedback be gathered?
– Complaints and compliments
– Newly developed feedback mechanisms e.g. annual event
for children and families, surveys, mystery shopping etc
– Collated information from Education, Health & Care Plans?
• How will the Local Offer develop as a result?
– Local Authority’s response regarding the services it
provides and commissions
– Publishing market intelligence and responses from other
providers?
Publishing Swindon’s Local Offer
• 4 sets of information make up the Swindon Local Offer:
– The SBC Offer covering the assessment and planning
process
– Overarching information on the types of support
available (transport, leisure, education etc)
– A directory of services available to Swindon children
and families: universal, targeted and specialist,
linking to…
– Provider Local Offers: your description of your
service offer, published on your website
Swindon Local Offer Website
• Developed using the Adult Information &
Advice website platform
• An iterative roll out:
– Sept 14: Core information (the web pages) and
simple directory (contact information and links
through to provider websites)
– Future development: full search options, a
‘shopping basket’ to collate support, provider
login to their directory entry, integration with
EHCP?