SEND Pathfinder – NW National and Regional Champions Conference

1. How we’re doing it…Kerry Hancock, Pathfinder support teamCathy Rooney, TraffordElaine Baulcombe, WiganJulie Hicklin, Manchester

2. SEND Pathfinder – NW National and Regional Champions Conference 25th March 2014

3. Welcome • Your hosts – Manchester Trafford and Wigan welcome you to our 3rd conference. • Supported by Mott MacDonald, DfE, CDC, Early Support, NNPCF, PfA • Who is in the room today? • No expense spared name badges! • Post – it notes for questions

4. Agenda

5. Further Information • All presentations from today will be made available on the SEND Pathfinder website: • www.SENDpathfinder.co.uk • This website is also where the Information Packs can be found. • Evaluation forms – will be sent to you via email

6. Coordinated assessment and EHC Plan Local Offer Personal Budgets Participation of parent carers and CYP Joint commissioning PfA

7. Practical top tips for implementation (25 mins) • Group discussion (20 mins) • Identifying key questions (all areas except EHC plan) • Prioritise top 3 across the group • Panel (15 mins) • Answering your key questions The local offer

8. IntroductionWhat is a Local Offer? • A response to concerns from parents and others regarding information provision • A clear, comprehensive and accessible publication by local authorities, detailing the available provision for SEN 0-25 years old, in one place. • To include: • Local provision • Provision outside the local area, for which the local authority is responsible • An intention to improve local authority provision, NOT simply a directory of exiting services

9. Draft Code of Practice • The drafts specify the requirements that all LAs must meet in developing, publishingandreviewing their local offer, including: • The info to be included • How the offer is to be published • Who is to be consulted and how children and young people with SEN and parents will be involved • Info about how to seek an Education, Health & Care assessment • Info about where to get advice and support • The publication of comments on the local offer and the LAs response to these comments

10. Emerging Principles: Local offer • Engaging: local authorities must involve parents, children and young people in developing and reviewing the local offer and should cooperate with those providing services and education. Effective parent participation happens when parents have conversations with and work alongside professionals in order to design, develop and improve services. • Accessible: the local offer should be easy to understand, factual and jargon-free. It should be structured in such a way that relates to young people’s and parent’s needs (for example by broad age category or by type of provision). This should be developed with local families. • Transparent and comprehensive: parents and young people should know what support is available across education, health and social care from 0 to 25, how to access it (including eligibility criteria where relevant), how decisions are made and who is accountable. The local offer should include details of where to go for information, advice and support, as well as how to make a complaint about support, or appeal against decisions.

11. Top Tip: Develop principles or vision of local offer in co-production with children, young people and parents/carers and understand their requirements.

12. Develop principles or vision of local offer in co-production with children, young people and parents/carers and understand their requirements. SE7- Local Offer • SE7 as a region: • set out principles that should be followed when completing the Local Offer (LO) locally • Helpful resources can be found on the SE7 website http://www.se7pathfinder.co.uk/se7-documents

13. Top Tip: Develop and agree appropriate online platforms to launch local offer based upon understanding of requirements, risks and constraints, aspirations in conjunction with I.T. professionals and/or design procurement or transition routes to ‘go live’

14. North Yorkshire Local offer Interactive map Local offer map

16. Top Tip: Develop effective communications strategy and plans to engage with wide range of stakeholders including children, young people, parents, carers and professionals..

17. Solihull – making use of existing networks Trafford's Communication/ Engagement Channels

18. Barking and Dagenham You Tube short film about likes and dislikes of work and leisure from young adults Camberwell Park School – Head teachers blog

19. Top Tip: Develop offline resources for those who cannot access the internet

20. NottinghamshireAccessing the SEND Local Offer without internet access • LO supplemented by the continued publication of a magazine, which will provide information on SEND issues and enable us to provide detailed feedback on issues raise through the SEND local offer. • Libraries and children’s centres will be available to facilitate access to the SEND local offer. • Staff in the County Council’s Customer Service Centre will use the SEND local offer to ensure information provided to callers is consistent with the information an individual might access through the internet or via the mobile channel. • Easy basket and print screen functionality

21. Top Tip: Distinguish between universal, targeted and specialist services including eligibility criteria

22. Hartlepool Local Offer: Education Hartlepool Local Offer: Education

23. More top tips for implementation- April Local Offer Information Pack

24. Group discussion (25 mins) • Identifying key questions (all areas except EHC plan) • Prioritise top 3 across the group Group Discussion

25. Practical top tips for implementation (25 mins) • Group discussion (25 mins) • Identifying key questions (all areas except local offer) • Prioritise top 3 across the group • Panel • Answering your key questions Coordinated assessment & planning process and EHC plans

26. Top Tip: Develop tools and guidance to support the implementation of the 0 – 25 coordinated assessment and EHC plan

27. Conference and event materials can be accessed here Animation to explain the pathway can be accessed here and screen shots from it are shown below. EHC Plan Pathway Guidance Document can be accessed here Nottinghamshire

28. Nottinghamshire

29. Top Tip: A clear vision, with buy-in from all stakeholders, then translated into an action plan provides direction, transparency and a mechanism to assess progress and test the emerging approach.

31. Top Tips: Identify the roles and/or functions needed to support the new 0 – 25 coordinated assessment and planning process

32. Workforce development and changing practitioner ways of working: What are other areas doing in order to prepare for the changes A very good place to start: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-pathfinder-key-working-and-workforce-development-part-1 Evidence was gathered from five pathfinder areas – Bromley, Cornwall, East Sussex, Leicester City and Trafford– via discussion groups in each area with those delivering key working and a set of in-depth, face to face interviews with the key individuals involved in developing and delivering key working.

33. Key learning pointsThe key learning points, useful to other areas preparing for the SEND reforms were that: • Key working needs to cover four ‘functional areas’: coordination; planning and assessment; information and signposting; and emotional and practical support • The four key working areas can be covered by one single professional, or shared by a group of professionals. Different models have been adopted by the pathfinders • Individuals providing key working support need a broad range of skills, from strong interpersonal skills, to critical thinking and analysis abilities, and knowledge of local Education, Health and Care (EHC) provision • The breadth and depth of knowledge required by those delivering key working varies according to the number of people sharing the responsibilities. Greater knowledge is required where individuals are undertaking more tasks on their own. • Effective key working teams comprise individuals with a mix of knowledge, experience and backgrounds. Understanding of local authority (LA) systems can be useful in ‘navigating the system’, but so too can the creative insights brought by those from ‘non-traditional’ backgrounds (i.e. professionals not typically involved in the conventional SEN Statementing process)

34. Key learning pointscontinued… • The new EHC planning process can bring important challenges, namely the need for more direct engagement with families and collaboration with a wider range of professionals. While positive, co-producing the EHC Plan with families can be time-consuming and emotionally demanding. Coordinating provision across different professionals and service areas requires strong organisational skills, and the authority and ability to influence • Training and development is required, and should include a mix of formal courses, informal training (e.g. networking, job shadowing), practical ‘tool-kits’ (e.g. examples of EHC plans, guidance documents) and sharing of good practice • Longer term plans for key working still require substantial thought, as the focus to date has been on the 20-week EHC planning process. Areas are still trying to work out how to deliver support affordably once EHC Plans have been finalised. In some areas, a ‘whole-scale’ approach may be taken, in which key working is provided by a large proportion of the children’s workforce as part of their existing roles. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-pathfinder-key-working-and-workforce-development-part-1

35. Models of key working currently in use https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-pathfinder-key-working-and-workforce-development-part-1

36. Models of key working currently in use Model 2, multi-person model – key working functions are undertaken by two or more professionals from within the LA (typically education services) or an external agency (e.g. VCS organisation3). One person coordinates the EHC planning process, and a lead professional (or small group of professionals) ensures it meets the statutory requirements. The family still has a single point of contact, but there is more flexibility over who this is, as a bigger team are involved. It may be the coordinator or a professional already known to, and nominated by the family, e.g. Educational Psychologist, Social Worker). Overall QA is provided by a senior manager or a multi-agency EHC panel. Model 1, single person model - a single professional, who typically sits within the local authority (LA) (but could also sit within a voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisation) is assigned to oversee the 20 week EHC planning process. Supervision and quality assurance (QA) under this model is provided by a senior manager or a multi-agency EHC panel.

38. Pros and cons of the two key working models

40. Workforce Development

41. Training

42. Group discussion (25 mins) • Identifying key questions (all areas except local offer) • Prioritise top 3 across the group Group Discussion