Transcript The Voice of Families

The Implementation of Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Reforms
- Engagement Event
WELCOME
Lynda Mitchell
Deputy Commissioner -Education
Aim of today
 To raise awareness of the National Context and
legislative changes in relation to SEND
 To hear the from the voice of families
 To understand what the reforms mean to
Staffordshire
 To share national best practice examples
 To start the journey of working together to shape the
future of SEND in Staffordshire
THE CASE FOR CHANGE
Julie Forrest-Davis
County Commissioner –All Age Disability &
SEND
The case for change
Families have to battle on
different fronts to get the
support they need from
separated education,
health and social care
services
Current SEN
Statements/Learning
Difficulty Assessments do
not focus on life
outcomes.
Education providers
sometimes focus too
much on the SEN label
rather than meeting the
child’s needs;
When a young person
leaves school for further
education, they enter a
very different system
which does not carry
forward the rights and
protections that exist in
the SEN system in schools.
Children with SEN have
their needs picked up
much too late;
OVERVIEW OF THE
NATIONAL CONTEXT
Nichola Glover-Edge
Strategic Transformation Lead SEND
The Children and Families Bill
Children & Families Bill
• Requires local authorities to publish in one place a
clear and easy to understand ‘local offer’ of
education, health and social care services.
• Requires local authorities to consult children, &
young people with SEN and their parents in
reviewing special education provision and social care
provision.
Children & Families Bill
• Introduce a more streamlined assessment process
for assessing the needs of those with more severe
and complex needs, integrating education, health
and care services.
• Replace statements and learning difficulty
assessments with a single Education, Health & Care
Plan.
• To implement a mediation service for parents and
young people to resolve disagreements before they
register a tribunal appeal.
Children & Families Bill
• Give parents and young people the right to a
personal budget for their support.
• Give young people with SEN in further education and
training aged 16-25 rights and protections
comparable to those in school.
• Requires local authorities and local health services to
plan and commission education, health and social
care services jointly.
By When?
THE VOICE OF FAMILIES
Sue Miller
Parent Partner Co-Ordinator
The National Picture- Families
response to the Green Paper
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Information and support
Involvement in decision making
Involvement in design of services
To give their information only once
For their children to be safe and happy
For transition to adulthood to be successful
The National Picture
• The Draft Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Code of Practice for 0-25…. What it says about
how to engage with families ……..
• Pathfinders Findings
The Pathfinders Four Key Areas
Engagement of
individual children
and young people
Engagement of
individual parents
carers and families
Strategic
participation of
parents and carers
Strategic
participation of
disabled children
and young people
Staffordshire so far
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SEN District Partnerships
Parent representatives on strategic groups
Involvement in commissioning of services
Consultation around services
Parent Participation Service (SPAN)
Parent Partnership Service (SUN)
WHAT DOES THIS
MEAN FOR SEND IN
STAFFORDSHIRE ?
Nichola Glover-Edge
Strategic Transformation Lead –
SEND
Our approach to the reforms
• Working in partnership with parents/carers,
children and young people, Health, Social
Care, Education and other providers.
• Learn from Pathfinders-build on best practice
• Follow Commissioning Framework
• SEND 5 year development plan
Our approach to the reforms
• Children, young people at the heart of our
approach
• Embedding personalised culture across SCC
and partner organisations
• A clear ambitious programme of
transformational change
What do we want to achieve?
Vision
Staffordshire’s All Age Disability Strategy- ‘Living
My Life, My Way-A Strategy for disabled people
in Staffordshire (2013-18)
“All children and young people with SEN and
Disability receive the right support at the right
time and in the right way so that they are able
to realise their aspirations and lead fulfilling
lives”
What do we want to achieve?
Outcomes
• Empowered to live as independently as
possible and live the life they choose;
• Learn, achieve and make progress
commensurate with their potential;
• Be safe and secure
• Live and thrive wherever possible in their local
community
What do we want to achieve?
• Focus on the child/young person not the service
• Think life not service, community not service,
outcomes not services
• Think achievement , aspiration and independence
not care and dependence
• Have ambition for our children and young people
• Ensure we all know what good looks like and can
and do deliver personalised education, care &
support
What do we want to achieve?
Shared
Information
Single Plan
Joint Plan &
decisions
made with
families
Integrated
Delivery
key
working
Ultimately we want……..
BEST PRACTICE
Nichola Glover-Edge
Strategic Transformation Lead –
SEND
The Pathfinders
The Pathfinders Testing Areas
The Pathfinders Evidence
YOUR VOICE
David Braybrook
Independent Educational Consultant
(SEN & Disability)
What have we heard so far?
o Due for a change
o We do need to change
o Change could provide a seamless process
o Working together to achieve better outcomes
o Current workforce is not cohesive-segmented
into pockets
What have we heard so far?
o Need to break down barriers to budget
ownership
o Need to collaborate and not fight
o Need to foster independence
o Currently not a structure that allows person
centred working
Core principles
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CYP/family centred
Keep what works
Increase independence
Build a greater flexibility in the system
Principle of least intervention that is appropriate
CYP thrive not cope
Live and thrive in their local community where
possible
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Create greater coherence
Partnership/cooperation/flexibility
Ensure capacity
Ensure progress of learners with SEND
Improve professional communication and
dialogue
• Ensure transparency
• Ensure robust systems of monitoring and
accountability
Activity
• Each of you has had a pack of information
given to you as you arrived
• We would like you to work through the 5
activities in small groups and record your
discussions
• Each area for discussion and examples are
from the pathfinder sites and we would like
your views on the fit for Staffordshire