Chairs and Vice Chairs meeting with senior officers and Lead Member Thursday 16 October 2014

1. Chairs and Vice Chairs meeting with senior officers and Lead Member Thursday 16 October 2014

2. DCS update

3. Summer Outcomes Michael Bracey, Service Director Education, Effectiveness and Participation

4. Early Years Foundation Stage Profile Pupils in Milton Keynes showing a good level of development in the Early Years Foundation Stage 2014 – 62% 2013 – 49% (National 2013 52%)

5. 2014 Key Stage 1 Results Pupils in Milton Keynes achieving KS1 level 2B or above: Reading: 82% (National 81%) No change on last year Writing: 71% (National 70%) +2% on last year Maths: 81% (National 80%) No change on last year

6. 2014 Key Stage 2 Results Pupils achieving KS2 level 4 or above Reading, writing and maths: 79% (National 79%) +2% on last year Pupils achieving KS2 level 4B or above Reading, writing and maths: 68% (National 67%) +3% on last year

7. Implementation of national SEND reforms Nicky Rayner, Service Director Children’s Social Care

8. September 2014 Progress and Priorities • Milton Keynes SEND Local Offer launched on 1st September 2014 • EHC Plan and processes in place • Work beginning in converting statements and LDAs (learning difficulty assessments) to EHC plans • Personal Budgets: - statement published on Local Offer - pilot project beginning to extend the personalisation approach and scope of what is currently available

9. September 2014 Progress andPriorities • Inclusion and Education Health and Care (EHC) Panel: providing a streamlined, multi-agency decision making process to support all aspects of SEND • Refreshed criteria for a statutory assessment to support referrals reflecting the four main areas of need: - communication and interaction - cognition and learning - social, emotional and mental health - sensory and /or physical needs

10. September 2014 Progress and Priorities Graduated approach to SEN replacing School Action and School Action +: - Overview/guidelines developed - ‘High needs top up funding’ reflective of EHC form Participation and Consultation: • Feedback function on the Local Offer website • Regular meetings being established with a group of parents • Furtherconsultationwork to be developed with children and young people

11. Conversion Strategy: Requirements • All statements have to be converted to an EHC Plan by April 2018 – 1400 current statements in Milton Keynes • All Learning Disability Assessments (LDAs) to be converted where requested and must be done for young people in college / training beyond September 2016 - approximately 500 current LDAs

12. Conversion Strategy: Principles and Approach • Conversions will happen as part of an ‘extended annual review’ process (Transition Review) • Prioritise children and young people with a transition in the coming year • Process needs to enable a person centered approach, ensuring that the plan is holistic and parents and young people are involved as equal partners and their voice is central to the process

13. Useful Links The Local Offer can be found at: www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/sendlocaloffer Feedback on the Local Offer to: local.offer.contributions@milton-keynes.gov.uk Guidance and forms supporting the new SEND processes can be found at: http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/schools-and-lifelong-learning/special-educational-needs/special-educational-needs-team1/ehc-needs-assessments

14. Safeguarding – trends and recent developments Nicky Rayner, Service Director Children’s Social Care

15. Hub – Why? Research report - learning from serious case reviews “There is a wealth of literature that emphasises how difficult it is to achieve effective interagency working in practice and yet how fundamental it is to work with children and families...” Rose and Barnes (2008) Improving safeguarding practice, England: 2001 – 2003

16. Key messages • The referral process into the Integrated Referral Hub is unchanged but…. • From September 2014, we are improving how we manage the child protection referrals (MKSCB levels of need 3-4) MULTI-AGENCY SAFEGUARDING HUB (MASH)

17. What will a MASH achieve? • Faster, more coordinated decisions • Proportionate responses based on risk assessment • Better informed decisions • Improved responses to children including earlier intervention • Closer partnership working, clearer accountability and less duplication of effort • Reduced inappropriate referrals and re-referrals – right place right time

18. MASH Benefits and Linkage MASH

19. MASH – How it works

20. MASH – How it works Referral process is unchanged but… • Inquiries reviewed by pre-MASH triage: - Divert cases that are already open to Children’s Social Care - Divert cases where child protection investigation is clearly indicated. • MASH members access intelligence from their agencies -‘firewalled’ sensitive information • MASH brings together information from all involved services • MASH interprets and determines what is appropriate to share • MASH delivers an ‘information package’ and recommendation for action to Children’s Social Care and Police

22. MASH – What’s needed from partners? • To provide information in a timely way when your MASH team member contacts (based on the MASH risk assessment RAG timescale) • To have the confidence and trust in the MASH ‘firewall’ to engage fully and share appropriate sensitive information • To let us know if we are improving our service to children and families – help us to get it right.

23. School Funding Michael Bracey, Service Director Education, Effectiveness and Participation

24. School Funding - Update October July Schools Forum consider consultation (no significant changes proposed) and budget planning (16 October) Formula and provisional unit rates submitted to EFA by 31 October Consultation over formula factors and growth funding arrangements (8 July-26 September) Lead Member takes decision to maintain or change formula factors (21 October) February November Schools Forum consider proposed budget (January) Pupil numbers confirmed and DSG allocation announced (December) Council approve budget (February) Details of school budget shares provided Maintained schools only Academies funded on academic year

25. School Funding - Update • £2,739K budget gap in 2015/16 if no action taken, caused by: • Underlying in year deficit position linked to the MFG protection (£1,100K) • Additional costs to fund new post 16 responsibilities for high needs students (£900K) • Sharp rise in number and complexity of need of children in special schools (£800K) • The need to support the increase in school places (£1,700K) • Proposed reduction include: • Changes to growth funding, but less radical that proposed (£580K) • Reduce delegated funding to primary schools to meet ‘pre statement’ costs (£119K) • Reductions to a range of high needs central budgets (£700K) • Reduce primary (£640K) and secondary AWPUs (£635K) • Likely impact is 1.5% reduction in primary and secondary budgets (compounded by pay awards and increased teachers superannuation contribution from September 2015)

26. School Funding - Update Detailed information can be found at: http://milton-keynes.cmis.uk.com/milton-keynes

27. Lead Member update

28. Next meeting Tuesday 24 February 2015