Chair - Sally Senejko
Vice Chair - Alex Nancollis
Written Statement of Action (Area 7) – Aims to ensure consistent application of the local area’s strategy for identifying, assessing and meeting the needs of children and young people at the SEN Support stage.
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Key message |
How does this impact families? How does it link to the Written Statement of Action (WSoA)? |
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We have appointed a Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Associate General Advisor within the Learning Support Service. |
This new post will focus on strengthening SEN support across all schools in the County. |
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Development of the SEND toolkit is going well and is due to be launched in December 2020. |
The Toolkit is a document which will support schools in meeting the needs of SEN pupils in a consistent way across the County. |
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We have streamlined the process for Early Help referral. |
The process for requesting support for individual children and young people with SEN when a school identifies they need further support from other professionals, eg Specialist Advisory Teacher, is now easier and more straight forward. |
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We have updated the SEND admissions guidance for all schools (including training and support). |
This ensures all schools are aware of their legal obligations and are supported to meet SEND needs where the school is named as parental preference. Schools must now respond in a manner that gives us information relating to any specific reasons why they may not be able to make a place available for a child or young person with SEND. This will ensure that the process is clear and transparent, and that all schools follow the same process. |
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We have issued part time timetable information to all schools. |
Pupils should not be on a part time timetable for a long period of time with no plan for this to end. We can now ensure schools have a plan for all SEND children and young people on a part time timetable to move back to full time within an appropriate timescale. We can now monitor this more consistently and can provide support and challenge as needed. |
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We are beginning a pilot project with Whole School SEND consortium. |
This work with a national (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) network will improve our SEND provision. We will provide more details when we have them. |