1. After the green paper…..
Brian Lamb

2. Theory of Change!
“I’d like us to implement a cultural revolution just like the one they’ve had in China……Like Chairman Mao, we’ve embarked on a Long March to reform our education system.” Michael Gove Secretary of State for Education Daily Telegraph 28th December 2010.
“Some of the things we are recommending I would say are huge cultural changes, which will take time to implement.”
Sarah Teather Select Committee 17th May

3. Process of Change
“The piecemeal engineer knows…..that we can learn only from our mistakes. Accordingly, he will make his way, step by step, carefully comparing the results expected with the results achieved, and always on the lookout for the unavoidable unwanted consequences of any reform”
Karl Popper
“That process will be iterative-a process of active and engaged learning-rather than the Schrödinger’s cat model of a black box, when you do a randomised control trial and then come out and look at it at the end of the day…. beginning on a small scale and then rolling those pilots out, so that we can learn the lessons”
Sarah Teather 17th May 2011
Or =SEN Reform

4. SEN and over identification
David
Blunkett
Green Paper
1997
“Schools currently identify 18% of children as having special educational needs of differing kinds….This Green Paper asks some questions about these figures…...as our policies take effect, the proportion of secondary age children whom schools need to identify as having SEN should move closer to 10%”

5. Definition of SEN
Proposals
Issues
One school based SEN definition covering school action and action plus
Providing clear guidance to schools on the appropriate definition of SEN
Improvements to schools offer, Achievement for All etc.
Scope and possible changes to the definition-risk of medical model/confusion
Reconfiguring of gateway without necessary improvements to schools universal offer
Diverts attention away from fundamentals-more specialist support
Extension of Achievement for All crucial to the strategy as is availability of specialist support

6. Assessment
Sarah Teather
17th May
Select
Committee
“You have to recognise that the health service runs its rationing system in a different way.”

7. Assessment and Joint Planning
Proposal
Issues
Single assessment process leading to joint education, health and social care plan
Early Intervention
Birth-twenty five years
Accountability-different assessment systems with different legal structures
Culture-different ways of operating
Joint budgeting possible solution especially if personalised budgets work?
Do we know what good looks like for sensory provision and if so what's needed to deliver that?

8. Inclusion not working?
Baroness Warnock
Coalition Agreement
“There is increasing evidence that the ideal of inclusion, if this means that all but those with the most severe disabilities will be in mainstream schools, is not working” “prevent the unnecessary closure of special schools, and remove the bias towards inclusion.”

9. Presumption towards Inclusion
Proposals
Issues
Extended choice to all state funded schools
New guidance to Local Authorities on placement decisions
Parents have right to take over special schools that are closing
No concept of what Government means by inclusion
Policy pinned to number of special school places
Financing and structure unlikely to deliver outcomes of the policy

10. Personal Budgets
Sarah Teather
17th May
Select Committee
“A statutory duty that we are putting in place is the statutory duty to provide a personal budget, and that entitlement to a personal budget will put the bite on the system, meaning that people have to budget for it…..the legal entitlement to a personal budget- provides the bite in a different way, on the health service, so that the health service cannot avoid the issue.”

11. Personalised Budgets Pilots of personal budgets
Proposals
Issues
Pilots of personal budgets
Assumed not to be for very large sums-school placements
Support from Keyworker
No clarity on mechanisms or operation
Service planning and cost aggregation at school level- can it really drive budget process?
Potential for parent purchasing consortia-what would that look like for sensory provision?
Role of keyworkers in sensory provision.

12. Parental Involvement
Lamb Inquiry- Evaluation of Parental Involvement Projects.
“Fundamental to success was the commitment of LAs to true, not tokenistic or paternalistic parental engagement and a clear aim to improve confidence and work collaboratively with parents.”

13. Local Offer and Parental Involvement
Proposals
Issues
Local Offer securing greater parental consultation and involvement-more strategic role for LA’s
Linked to Tribunal
Major opportunity for cultural change in supportive authorities
Enforceability of Offer
Supporting parents to participate
Fragmentation of local system-academies etc.

14. Information Offer-Schools
Proposals-four key areas:
Issues
curriculum – how the curriculum is tailored to meet children’s individual needs;
teaching – how teaching is adapted to meet children’s SEN and how arrangements are made to secure specialist expertise;
assessment – how on-going teacher assessment is used to identify barriers to learning for children with SEN; and
pastoral support –how the school supports the education and wellbeing
Clarity of Information-what can parents expect of the curriculum?
Availability of support within schools-what is good practice around sensory provision?
Clarity over what good practice looks like for SEN and how assessment is going to work
What does good pastoral support look like-emotional resilience?

15. Professional Development
Proposals
Issues
Lamb Inquiry-5 areas of SEN being rolled out by TDA
Role of Ed Psych's being reviewed
NHS workforce consultation-speech therapy
Supporting work of the Trusts
SENCO training funded for another year
Not overall clear plan about SEN workforce
Role of Ed Psych's in new assessment process not determined
Trusts work is not going to fill gap in training delivery as school level
Major opportunity for sensory sector to define strategy?
LA context cuts!

16. Issues Localism vs. Central Control
Culture change vs. Structural change
Aspiration vs. Reality (LA cuts)
百花運動
Mao