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Helen Norris Pathfinder Champion Lead for London (Bromley)

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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Helen Norris Pathfinder Champion Lead for London (Bromley)

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Children & Families Bill Legislation – Key Highlights

  4. Children & Families Bill SEND Reform Journey

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Bromley Draft Education, Health & Care Plan Pathway20 Weeks

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. EHC Plan issues • An extended system up to age 25 • An integrated system with new partners • Commissioning and accountability

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Education, Health & Care Plan ConsiderationsDiscovering Answers to Critical Questions

  18. 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

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