from current process to future best practice how the government’s SEN&D reforms will transform services and support in Norfolk for children, young people and their families… The National Picture – what are the SEND Reforms Norfolk’s Response – how are we implementing these changes Questions ? What Do You Need To Know ? Michael Bateman, Interim Head of SEN

 Participation of children, their parents and young people in decision- making.  Early identification of children and young people’s needs and early intervention to support them.  Greater choice and control for young people and parents over support.  Collaboration between education, health and social care services to provide support.  High quality provision to meet the needs of children and young people with SEND.  Focus on inclusive practice and removing barriers to learning.  Successful preparation for adulthood, including independent living, community participation and employment. The vision

What the new legislation means Puts parents, children and young people at the centre of decisions Local authorities and health services to jointly commission education, health and social care services, and to arrange integrated support Local authorities to publish a clear and transparent “Local Offer” Replacing Early Years/School Action/Plus with a new single early years setting- and school-based category of SEN Replacing statements of SEN and learning difficulty assessments with a new birth to 25 Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) Gives those with an EHCP the offer of a personal budget

Local authorities to publish a clear and transparent “Local Offer” Local authorities must publish a Local Offer, setting out in one place information about provision they expect to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people in their area who have SEN or are disabled, including those who do not have Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans. In setting out what they ‘expect to be available’, local authorities should include provision which they believe will actually be available. 2.The Local Offer has two key purposes: To provide clear, comprehensive and accessible information about the available provision and how to access it, and To make provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations by directly involving disabled children and those with SEN and their parents, and disabled young people and those with SEN, and service providers in its development and review 3.The Local Offer should not simply be a directory of existing services. Its success depends as much upon full engagement with children, young people and their parents as on the information it contains. The process of developing the Local Offer will help local authorities and their health partners to improve provision.

Publishing information: SEN information report 74.The governing bodies of maintained schools and maintained nursery schools and the proprietors of academy schools must publish information on their websites about the implementation of the governing body’s or the proprietor’s policy for pupils with SEN. The information published must be updated annually and any changes to the information occurring during the year must be updated as soon as possible. The information required is set out in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 and must include information about: the kinds of special educational needs that are provided for policies for identifying children and young people with SEN and assessing their needs, including the name and contact details of the SENCO (mainstream schools) arrangements for consulting parents of children with SEN and involving them in their child’s education arrangements for consulting young people with SEN and involving them in their education arrangements for assessing and reviewing children and young people’s progress towards outcomes, including the opportunities available to work with parents and young people as part of this assessment and review (note: this list continues, see page 93 of the Code Of Practice !!)

Replacing Early Years/School Action/Plus with a new single early years setting- and school-based category of SEN Where, despite the setting having taken relevant and purposeful action to identify, assess and meet the special educational needs of the child, the child has not made good progress, the setting should consider requesting an Education, Health and Care assessment, see chapter 9, Education, Health and Care assessments and plans A pupil has SEN where their learning difficulty or disability calls for special educational provision, that is provision different from or additional to that normally available to pupils of the same age. Making higher quality teaching normally available to the whole class is likely to mean that fewer pupils will require such support. Such improvements in whole-class provision tend to be more cost effective and sustainable.

EHCP Process Overview Education Health & Care Plan Personal Budget Single Point of Access Early Help Entry Criteria Triage Referral Assess Needs Create Plan Education Health & Care Plan Assessment Process Decision Points

Supporting learner development Supporting professional development Supporting institutional development ‘Norfolk to Good and Great’ programme (targeting schools that ‘require improvement’) NCC Education Section – A range of services that draw together learners, institutions and professionals to achieve ‘A Good Education for Every Norfolk Learner’ A good school, college or setting for every Norfolk learner in which all Norfolk’s children and young people receive the highest possible standards of education, learning and training Intervention & Inspection Service Education Inclusion Service Education Partnership Service Pupil Place Planning & Organisation Admissions Service Education Achievement Service Employment and Skills Service NIEAS Core Objectives Facilitate high standards of delivery from Norfolk’s educational institutions Provide sufficient learner places across Norfolk Champion the needs and attainment of Norfolk’s more vulnerable learners Virtual School Other vulnerable learners Looked After Children

Reorganisation Proposals – EDUCATION Establish an Education Inclusion Service, bringing together a focus on education outcomes for children and young people with a special educational need, at risk of exclusion, not participating in education or training, or who are home educated (this includes bringing the work of guidance advisors and attendance improvement officers into the Education Section) Extend the work of the ‘virtual school’, which will broaden its cohort, focusing not just on looked after children but also on other vulnerable groups

Norfolk County Council & Partners Children & Families Act (SEND reforms) Norfolk County Council Family Voice Norfolk Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Groups Questions ? What Do You Need To Know ?