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BROMLEY & BEXLEY PATHFINDER Local Offer, Co-ordinated Assessment and Education, Health & Care Plans 2 nd December 2013 1 pm ~ 4 pm At the National Children’s Bureau 8 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7QE. Helen Norris Pathfinder Champion Lead for London (Bromley)
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BROMLEY & BEXLEY PATHFINDER Local Offer, Co-ordinated Assessment and Education, Health & Care Plans 2nd December 2013 1 pm ~ 4 pm At the National Children’s Bureau 8 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7QE Helen Norris Pathfinder Champion Lead for London (Bromley) Head of Specialist Support & Disability Services London Borough of Bromley Tel: 020 8315 4741 / Email: helen.norris@phoenixsch.org.uk
The Changing Landscape of the SEND Reform Agenda Children and Families Bill February 2013 Pathfinders and Delivery Partners and Champions Children & Young People’s Health Outcomes / CCG’s Parental Control Draft SEN Code of Practice 0-25 years (October 2013) Transitions Health & Social Care Act & Care Bill (published May 2013) Equality Act 2010 Working together to safeguard children March 13 Schools and Ofsted, Academy Agenda • Economic Constraints • Systemic Changes • Awareness & Implementation
Pathfinder Learning ~ Highlights • Pathfinder learning is being evidenced through a suite of ‘information packs’ with case studies: • 0-25 Co-ordinated Assessment Process and Education, Health and Care Plan • Personal Budgets • Local Offer • Joint Commissioning • Engagement and participation of children, young people, parents & carers • Preparing for adulthood • They are available at www.sendpathfinder.co.uk/infopacks • Highlights include: • Excellent practice in co-production with families • Strong examples of good practice emerging on engaging children and young people, early years settings, schools and post 16 institutions • 28 Local Offers live at end of October 2013 • Implementation time takes 1 year • 2300 recruited for testing Education, Health and Care Plans with over 1300 plans in place
What do the Children and Families Bill, indicative regulations and Code of Practice say? • Bill and Supporting Documents • Children and Families Bill (clauses 36 to 49) • Indicative Draft: Regulations SEN Assessment and Plan, • clauses 37, 37, 44 and 45 • Indicative Draft: SEN Code of Practice (section 6 Assessments and • Education, Health and Care Plans) • Key highlights (in pack) • Extracts from the draft SEN Code of Practice, section 6.1: • “Local authorities should work closely with children, young people and their parents to plan for their future, as part of an on-going process, which continues to identify and meet the needs of children and young people as they develop and grow. • In a small number of cases, planning will identify a need to conduct formal assessment of more complex needs and to work closely with the family • The statutory assessment process must be co-ordinated across education, health and care • Statutory assessment itself will not always lead to an EHC plan.
SEND Reform Agenda The Children and Families Bill Pathfinder Testing Key measures relating to EHC Plans are: • Replacing SEN statements and Learning Difficulty Assessments (for 16 to 25 year-olds) with a single, 0 to 25 assessment process and Education, Health and Care Plan from 2014. Statutory protections comparable to the Statement extended to 25. • Draft Code of Practice • Requirements on Assessment and Education, Health & Care plans • Giving parents or young people with Education, Health and Care Plans the right to a personal budget for their support • New statutory protections for young people aged 16-25 in FE including the right to request particular institution named in their EHC plan and their right to appeal to First-tier Tribunal • Academies, Free Schools, Further Education and Sixth Form colleges to have the same SEN duties as maintained schools
Pathfinder Areas - Implications and Considerations for Schools and Colleges • Transition from current system of statements to EHC Plans and transition arrangements / guidance • Implementation of personal budgets acrossEducation, Health and Care / Joint Assessments/Commissioning • Links with Education Funding Reforms, ‘top-up’ funding and support for children with SEND who do not receive EHC Plans • Linking funding arrangements and plan thresholds to Local Offer & ‘what is normally available’. Local Offer ~ Schools Offer • Achieving cultural change with parents and young people at the centre • Changing role of Local Authorities, sufficiency, quality and individual SEN packages (e.g. EHC Plans) • Timescales and implementation from September 2014
Chapter 7 - Assessments and Education, Health and Care Plans • The need for an EHC assessment • Co-ordinated assessment, planning and timescales • EHC assessment and planning process • Advice and information for EHC assessments • Writing the EHC Plan, principles and content • Requests for a school, college or other institution • Requesting a personal budget • Reviewing an EHC Plan
Challenges & Opportunities for Implementation – Assessment and Planning • Engagement of children and young people – ‘tell us once’ approach, young peoples plans • Developing co-ordination of assessment across partners including health and social care – full end to end process • Resourcing and accountability for EHC Plans • Refining formats of EHC Plans: defining outcomes well; clear and specific provision; meeting expected legal requirements / monitoring • Developing sustainable, whole area, 0-25 approaches which keep families and young people at the centre of the process - training requirements for keyworking / collaborating across Education, Health and Care / benefits of keyworking, Joint Commissioning and planning. • Ensuring parents are partners in the process. • Time, Time, Time
Overview of Bromley EHC Plan Process • 0-20 Week Process • Stage 1 • Initial request • Keyworker allocation • Personal profile completed (section 1) • Multi-agency Meeting (MAM) arranged • Reports from professionals developed for MAM • Stage 2 • Multi-agency meeting • Section 2 drafted • Following meeting outcomes and support needs across Education, • Health and Care developed • Further advice sought if needed • Stage 3 • Draft EHC Plan considered & agreed at Specialist Support & Disability Panel (SSDP) • Keyworker discusses draft with parents • Draft plan revised and agreed/resourced across agencies (section 3) • Implementation
EHC Plan – Context in Bromley • September 2013 – 2014 the Implementation Phase • Processes birth to 25 across education, health and care in line with • emerging new code of practice • 3 Age Tranches: birth to 4 5 – 16 16 – 25 • Key Issues include communication strategy, workforce development, parents, children and young people at the centre. Joint commissioning and key-working, IT and data. • Bromley ‘Local Offer’ birth to 25 • Linking personal budgets and EHC Plans • Meeting proposed statutory requirements of an EHC Plan (suite of letters) • Conversion and transition arrangements
EHC Plan issues • An extended system up to age 25 • An integrated system with new partners • Commissioning and accountability
EHC Plan – overcoming challenges(DfE 5.9.13) • 20 week timescale, developing new parental information • Scaling up sustainable approaches to a whole area 0-25 e.g. key working and fully engaging children and young people keeping families at the centre • Resourcing and accountability for EHC Plans across agencies • Defining with clarity which assessments across education, health and care inform the resourced plan • Over 100 registered EHC Plans, 63 complete
Key Points • Training in better quality report writing across agencies from the start building integrated systems • Huge cultural change as this is NOT a statement by another name • Meaningful statutory plans and resourcing across education, health and care • Consideration of when a plan is a parent led plan and when it is a child / young person ‘owned’ and led plan • Clear EHC Plan templates with outcomes that meet statutory provision need as well as child and family aspirations and provide enough clarity to consider resources • Multi-agency workforce training e.g. key working • Single panel and integrated pathway
Education, Health & Care Plan ConsiderationsDiscovering Answers to Critical Questions
SEND Pathfinder Reform Agenda WHOLE SYSTEM CHANGE Working with parents and all partners, children and families at the heart of legislation including assessment & EHC planning process Workforce development, keyworking & commissioning across agencies Culture shift Personalisation