SEND Training: Supporting Additional Needs in Practice

1. SEND Training:Supporting Additional Needs in Practice Jenny Bates (jenny.bates@ babcockinternational.com) Lata Ramoutar (lata.ramoutar@babcockinternational.com)

2. Contents National Context Break Devon Context Lunch DAF Practical Application

3. Aims of the Day • To understand the national context of SEND • To understand Devon’s processes for supporting SEND for those aged 0-25 within a multi-agency context • To use the Devon Assessment Framework to provide a ‘plan, do, review’ approach to SEND

5. National Context Children & Families Bill: Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability: Progress and next steps Code of Practice (2014) • Statutory guidance: Identify, assess and make provision for children and young people (0-25) with SEN • Replaces Statements with Education, Health and Care Plans and Learning Difficulty Assessment (LDA) • Personal budgets • Local Offer • Focus on views of children, young people and parents/carers in decision-making • Joint planning and commissioning of education, health services and social care • Guidance on SEN support in education and training settings, enabling them to transition to adulthood

6. National Context: Definition of SEN A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for them. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if they: • Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of other of the same age; or • Have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions A child under compulsory school age has special educational needs if they fall within the definition at a) or b) above or would do so if special educational provision was not made for them (clause 20, Children & Families Bill 2013, Department for Education)

7. National Context: SEN Funding

8. Is There Another Way? Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh AA Milne 1989

9. Activity 1 Will they present any opportunities / challenges to your practice? How will the changes affect you? Consider; Change; SEND Use the post-its to ask your questions. Plan; Feedback; How will you meet the opportunities / challenges?

10. Code of Practice: Parental and Young Person’s Engagement • Views, wishes and feelings • Participating as fully as possible • Need to be supported to contribute

11. Code of Practice: What is the Local Offer? Education Health Care The Local Offer

12. The Local Authority Must… INFORM: Provide clear, comprehensive and accessible information about the provision available 1 RESPOND: Make provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations by involving children and young people with SEN, parents and carers and service providers in its development and review 2

13. The Local Offer Will Be:

14. Code of Practice

15. Code of Practice: Child, Young Adult, Parent voice Local Offer EHCPs Joint Agency/ Integrated Working

16. Code of Practice: Personal Budgets • An amount of money identified by the LA to deliver all or some of the provision set out in an EHC plan • Setting, agreeing and delivery of PBs • Direct payments: education, social care, health services

17. Personalisation “Every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control over the shape of that support in all care settings“ Department of Health, 2012 “Personalisation means thinking about public services and social care in a different way – starting with the person and their individual circumstances rather than the service” Social Care Institute for Excellence

18. A system wide offer of support, opportunity and activity • Health ? • Social care ? • Education ? • Thinking more widely about opportunities, support and activity • Explaining how personal budgets can be used and when a child or young person may need a personal budget

19. Break

20. Attitudes to challenges and opportunities?

21. SEND Pathfinder • 1 of 20 nationally • A coordinated approach to a single assessment • A single plan for those aged 0-25 years • Personal budgets (greater control for parents) • Support to parent carers and young people • Support to vulnerable children, including children in care and children with complex health needs (0-25)

22. DAF Process • . Universal Early Help Complex/ statutory

23. Devon Assessment Framework Meeting the needs of the child and young person, parents Plan, Do, Review Education, Health & Care Needs My EHC Plan Early Identification My Plan Outcomes

24. DAF Process Parental/ Young person/Child Engagement - How will they be heard? • Devon Parent Partnership - Impartial advice, information and support in relation to SEN • Advocacy service for young people using creative ways for them to engage • Support and recording tools (e.g. person centred planning)

25. DAF Links With SEN Funding

26. DAF Process Single Point of Access (SPA) • Raising a concern • Accessing help • Feedback loop and lines of communication

27. Non Statutory DAF EHCP Early Help

28. Collaboration Local Offer DAF/EHCP

29. In Development

30. DAF Process My Plan • Parent and Young Person’s view • Non statutory • DAF1, 2a • TAC review • Elements 1, 2 and possibly 3

31. What is an outcome? Something that happens or changes in the life of a child/young person/parent • What has changed for people? • What matters to the people on the receiving end/involved in the process? • The effects of our actions • Positive…negative… neutral…challenging

32. Activity 3 Practice Makes Perfect • In pairs read Peter Parker’s (My Plan) DAF 2a • Look at the content in the columns: • Are there things you would write differently? • Are the desired outcomes SMART? • How would you consider costing these interventions?

33. Lunch • mmm

34. Activity 3 Feedback • ?

35. Activity 4 Practice Makes Perfect • One person suggest a child with complex needs whom you know well. • Describe the needs of the child to your group • Have a go. Using the prompt sheet have a go at completing the My Plan

36. DAF Process EHCP - Statutory Code of Practice After My Plan TAC reviews and Elements 1, 2 and 3 Review at least annually Parent’s and Young Person’s view Might need an additional IEP sheet Personal Budget

37. Activity 5 Practice Makes Perfect • Use Peter Parker’s My Plan • Read the ‘Update information’ on the prompt sheet and discuss the questions • Have a go at reviewing the DAF2a (my plan) incorporating the new info. Look at the the DAF3request for additional resources. How would you complete it?

38. How do we feel now?

39. Next Steps • When? Time scales for implementation • How to get; • DAF forms • Matrices for SEN Support/Expectations • Help & Support • Further Training • How to access the SPA?

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41. Thank You!