1. The Changing Landscape
HOSSS 11th Annual
National Conference
University of Birmingham
15 June 2012
Philippa Stobbs
Assistant Director
Council for Disabled Children

2. Changing landscape
Increased independence of schools and other settings
Raising the Participation Age
Changed and changing role of local authorities
Changing health systems
Changing benefits system

3. Changing landscape School and academy funding National Curriculum
Approaches to testing
Teaching schools

4. Unchanging landscape Good teaching and learning
Evidence of children’s progress and outcomes
Need for advanced and specialist skills
Need for real engagement with parents
Need for focus on wider outcomes for disabled

5. Green paper: progress and next steps
March 2011: Green Paper, Support and Aspiration: a new approach to SEN and disability
September 2011: pathfinders start
9 May 2012: Queen’s Speech announced Children and Families Bill
15 May: Support and Aspiration: a new approach to SEN and disability: Progress and next steps

6. Children and Families Bill
draft Bill for consultation summer 2012
pre-legislative scrutiny autumn 2012
Bill to be introduced to Parliament early 2013
expected to be ‘carried over’ to next Parliamentary session
Royal Assent early 2014

7. Next steps document summaries of responses to Green Paper
progress made since Green Paper
fleshes out proposals in Children & Families Bill
reports on next steps in relation SEN reforms
full text:
updates on CDC website:

8. Green paper: Next Steps
Local offer
Single assessment process and an Education Health and Care Plan
Joint planning and commissioning
Personalisation 
Proposed timetable

9. The local offer legislation broad national framework
local discretion over shape, scope and content
developed in collaboration with parents and local services
provision ‘normally made available’ in an area: in local schools and colleges
from local health and social care services
to include schools and colleges
will be used by the First-tier (SEND) Tribunal and others

10. The local offer Existing requirements Potential to build capacity
Funding changes
From next April
£4k plus £6k in schools
Importance of timing of local offer
How it is developed

11. Evidence:
Pinney A (2004) Reducing Reliance on Statements: An investigation into Local Authority Practice and Outcomes. Department for Education and Skills Research Report 508
Penfold C, Cleghorn N, Tennant R, Palmer I, Read J (2009) Parental confidence in the Special Educational Needs Assessment, Statementing and Tribunal System: a qualitative study. National Centre for Social Research/DCSF
Aiming High for Disabled Children
Behaviour Improvement Programme evaluation

12. Single assessment process an Education Health and Care Plan
Children and Families Bill will include:
replace SEN statements & LDAs (for 16- to 25-year-olds)
a single, 0-25 assessment process
Education, Health and Care Plan
from 2014
statutory protections comparable to a statement
up to 25 in further education
parents will not lose legal protections

13. Single assessment process an Education Health and Care Plan
Timing
Who should have an education, health and care plan
Statutory and non-statutory?
Post-16 landscape
Link to local offer

14. Joint planning and commissioning
Requirement to plan & commission jointly
local authorities & clinical commissioning groups
services for disabled children and young people and those with SEN

15. Changing health structures
Health and Well-being Boards
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Health and Well-being Strategy
Arrangements for co-operation to improve children’s well-being
Children and Young people’s Health Outcomes Forum

16. Joint planning and commissioning
Strategic or individual focus
Linkage to schools, academies, early years settings
Duty to co-operate

17. Personalisation EHCP option of personal budget
clear role in designing a personalised package
learning from the pilot programme of Individual Budgets (IB)
impact of personal health budgets

18. Personalisation Education Act 2011 powers
direct payments in education as well as health and social care
pathfinders testing out
Green Paper consultation: most popular aspects:
Transport
Therapies
Short breaks
Legislation on personal budgets for families with EHCP by 2014

19. Personalisation Personal budgets and direct payments
Making provision more responsive to children’s needs and parents’ wishes
Employment issues
Evidence

20. Proposed timetable evidence from pathfinders multi-agency approach
collaborative
needs time and resourcing
how to build confidence changes will lead to better outcomes
aspects for change sooner rather than later

21. Other issues Equality Act 2010 auxiliary aids and services
bias towards inclusion
Code of Practice changes

22. Other work funded by the DfE
A range of programmes, grant holders and contracted services, including:
NatSIP
Early Support
Achievement for All
3 Trusts:
The Communications Trust
Autism Education Trust
Dyslexia Specific Learning Difficulties Trust
Support to parent/carer forums and parent partnership services
Council for Disabled Children: Strategic Partner to DfE on SEN and disability

23. Key challenges
Cultural change
Systems change
Timing
Priority

24. Philippa Stobbs