1. What's happening about developing services and provision in Suffolk?
Georgina Green
Head of Service Development SEN/AP

2. The story so far
Suffolk Parent Carer Network survey presented to SEND Steering Group members November 2016:
252 responses
52.87% of parents/ carers did not feel their child or young person had the opportunity to achieve their best possible outcome
54.92% of parents/ carers did not feel that the services their child or young person used to help them make educational progress were effective.
42.8% of parents/ carers did felt that the services in place to support their child worked poorly together.

3. How well did parents/ carers feel their child or young person’s needs are met by:

4. Outcome of Ofsted/ CQC Inspection in December 2016
ineffective governance and leadership
poor timeliness, integration and quality of SEND statutory assessments and plans
lack of local understanding of the support available and the poor quality of the local offer
lack of joint working to monitor, quality-assure and maximise the efficiency of the work undertaken to improve outcomes for children

5. Response to the Ofsted/ CQC report SEND Strategy 2017-2020
“Working together with families and communities to support children and young people with SEND to fulfil their own potential, and live healthy and fulfilling lives in their communities”
Our aim: Children and young people with SEND and their families have access to the information, services and support they need to enable them to achieve their potential.
Priority 1: Communicating the local offer
Priority 2: The SEND Journey
Priority 3: Developing services and provision
Priority 4: Transitions/Moving into adulthood

6. Developing services and provision in Suffolk Proposed Core Principles
integrated working and co-production with parents/carers, children and young people at each stage
access to appropriate education closer to home
integration in or with mainstream settings wherever suitable
early identification and intervention
evidenced based and best value planning

7. Activity
From a parents/ carers perspective what other core principles should we be adopting when developing services and provision? In your groups please identify what these should be and why they are important to you.

8. Key-working to support and enable
SEND Pathway
Key-working to support and enable

9. First steps
A SEND Sufficiency Plan will be published by April 2018 that will detail the longer term plan for services and provision, but we recognise from the feedback by parents and the Ofsted report that we need to take some immediate action. This will include:
Strengthening outreach services – support and challenge
Begin the co-production of a new single multi-agency assessment model
Create interim provision where there is evidence of an immediate need
Alignment of services and pathways across agencies
Admission arrangements to specialist provision are transparent to all stakeholders particularly families

10. SEND Sufficiency Plan
“A plan that ensures we have enough provision and services to meet the needs of Children and Young People with SEND in the future”
The plan will include:
How, by working together, we are going to meet the gaps in services and provision and by when
Who will be responsible and accountable for delivering the actions
How we will fund the changes and development work
What the outcomes will be for children and young people with SEND in Suffolk
How the plan will be monitored, reviewed and evaluated with regular reporting to all stakeholders

11. Activity
To help us with the SEND Sufficiency Plan what are the most important factors for us to consider from a parent’s/ carer’s perspective when we develop services and provision for your child or young person? What would these look like?

12. Summary Feedback from parents/ carers, Ofsted and CQC
Response to Ofsted/ CQC report – SEND Strategy and written Statement of Action
Development of Co-produced Sufficiency Plan and alignment of services to deliver the SEND Pathway model
Important feedback from you that will inform our future planning

13. Thank you for listening and your contribution