1. Review of High Needs Funding and SEND Strategy

2. SEND Strategy Julie Ely Head of SEN

3. KENT SEND STRATEGY WORKING TOGETHER, IMPROVING OUTCOMES
ACHIEVEMENTS:
More children attending a better school
Support for schools through LIFT and Early Years LIFT
High needs funding without statutory assessment
500+ ASD, 300 SLCN and 300 SEMH
Largest group Y1, then Yr2. Secondary schools make fewer applications but 63% non-Grammar and 47% Grammar schools applied. We are tracking Y6 into Secondary school
More places in Special schools and in mainstream specialist resourced provision (SRP)
Support and for families; IASK, Local Offer

4. KENT SEND STRATEGY WORKING TOGETHER, IMPROVING OUTCOMES
Refreshed aims for
Improving outcomes; education, social, health and emotional well-being
Meeting statutory duties; Children and Families Act 2014
Creating greater capacity; address the gaps in provision; quality and range

5. KENT SEND STRATEGY WORKING TOGETHER, IMPROVING OUTCOMES
Vision
Good local schools; core standards, earlier intervention and inclusion
Partnerships; school to school, workforce development, outreach support
Provision and places
Co-production, providers engaged with changes
Good progress for every Kent child and young person with SEN

6. KENT SEND STRATEGY Priorities for 2017-2019
Identifying the right children at the right time
Creating capacity in schools through workforce development particularly for pupils with autism
Improving attendance and inclusion
Better transitions between pre-school and school, moving to college
Ensuring assessment is effective and meeting needs

7. KENT SEND STRATEGY Priorities for 2017-2019
Ensuring provision is improving outcomes
Effective use of High Needs Funding
Specialist provision where it is needed locally, reducing transport
Preparation for adulthood; post 16 provision, high quality work experience, internships and support for apprenticeships
Fewer SEND NEETs

8. KENT SEND STRATEGY Priorities for 2017-2019
 Increasing parent satisfaction and confidence
Children and young people with SEND and their parents are involved in decision making
Creating more specialist places, particularly Secondary age
Reduce parents’ frustrations with delay or accessibility
Continue to promote awareness of the Local Offer
Have a high quality statutory assessment process which delivers to timescales and engages parents at each step
Have embed a culture of evaluating the impact of what we do to regularly monitor and review children’s progress and parents’ experiences of schools and systems

9. WE WILL KNOW WE ARE ACHIEVING WHEN
High needs funding has more impact on SEND progress and attainment
Parents feel listened to and their views are acted upon and there is evidence of high levels of parental involvement in SEND assessment and review
Young people are influencing decisions about them
The local offer is informative, well known and used
Parents are highly satisfied with SEND provision and have confidence in the support provided
Fewer EHCPs needed in mainstream schools

10. Review of High Needs Funding

11. Future years outlook
The Government is proposing to introduce a National Funding Formula form
In relation to High Needs, based on current proposals, we are unlikely to see any increases in High Needs funding that Kent receives for the next 4 years ( )
But we are still going to have growth in High Needs pupil numbers
We have commenced a review of High Needs

12. High Needs Funding
The numbers of pupils supported by high needs funding have increased
In relation to High Needs costs in mainstream schools, there has been an increase of £14m since
More than half of High Needs funded pupils do not have an EHCP
But referrals for statutory assessment continue to increase

13. High Needs Pupil Numbers - By Institution
Actual
Latest forecast
Special Schools
3,272
3,349
3,572
3,688
3,733
Resource Provision
804
810
874
859
900
Mainstream Schools
802
860
1,475
1,916
2,129
Independent - pre 16
458
491
521
533
Independent - post 16 87 71 64 52
Independent
545
562
585
OLA Maintained 95
103
108
FE Colleges
467
570
636
845
SPI and CCP 55
141
TOTALS
5,985
6,254
7,229
8,001
8,299
This slide was shared with the Schools Funding Forum on 9 December and shows the year on year growth of High Needs pupils in Kent
Main areas of concern are around the growth in Mainstream schools as well as FE colleges for post 16 pupils
On mainstream, our new system was introduced in so you cannot compare with previous years
Position on mainstream has increased further since this was produced – LA is looking at options for containing costs within affordable levels

14. Cost of High Needs (£'000) - By Institution Type
1000
£'000
Actual
Forecast
Special Schools
67,048
68,543
68,118
70,326
71,093
Resource Provision
13,118
14,919
15,274
15,938
15,658
Mainstream Schools
8,755
8,899
14,398
20,808
22,344
Independent - pre 16
17,581
19,840
22,588
23,661
Independent - post 16
6,000
5,359
4,281
4,665
Independent
23,581
25,199
26,869
28,326
OLA Maintained
2,295
2,531
2,661
3,247
3,948
FE Colleges
4,229
4,980
6,867
8,332
8,425
SPI and CCP
366
1,123
TOTALS
119,026
125,071
134,186
147,342
150,916
Increase from previous year
6,045
9,115
13,156
3,575
% increase from previous year
5.1%
7.3%
9.8%
2.4%
And here is the costs of those High Needs pupils by type of institution

15. Balancing the 2017-18 High Needs Budget
DfE increased the budget by £3.4m
Schools Funding Forum agreed to the transfer of £5m from Schools budget to meet growth in mainstream High Needs
Schools Funding Forum also supported some changes to the Notional SEN top up, which will save an estimated £1.8m

16. High Needs Funding in Mainstream Schools

17. DfE Guidance on High Needs Funding
SEN Code of Practice 2015 section 6.99 states;
‘Schools are not expected to meet the full cost of more expensive special educational provision from their core funding. The local authority should provide additional top-up funding where the cost of the special educational provision required to meet the needs of an individual pupil exceeds the nationally prescribed threshold’.
The DfE identifies High needs funding as the cost, over £6,000 incurred by a school, of more expensive special educational provision to meet the individual pupil’s needs.
It is not for quality first teaching and the delivery of the differentiated curriculum. This includes generic TA support.

18. TA Support
An adult can be the facilitator of an intervention but are not an intervention or resource themselves.
Class TAs supporting in any adult/child ratio, during a teacher led class based lesson, is differentiated teaching and would not be considered a SEN provision required to meet the needs of an individual pupil.
Further guidance can be found in the Education Endowment Foundation
‘Making the Best Use of Teaching Assistants’
There are too many applications stating that a child needs 1:1 TA support with no identifiable purpose. A teaching assistant can’t be an intervention, an adult is the facilitator of an intervention.
Every effort must be taken to provide an inclusion curriculum and large amounts of 1:1 TA support will not be funded apart from in exceptional circumstances.

19. Total number of HNF applications per district April 2016 to February 2017
Area
With EHCP
% with EHCP
Without EHCP
% without EHCP
Total applications
Tun Wells 58
36%
104
64%
162
Ton & Mall
105
46%
125
54%
230
Maidstone
107
44%
137
56%
244
Shepway 55
33%
114
67%
169
Ashford 74
35%
138
65%
212
Dover 81
145
226
Thanet
110
51%
49%
215
Canterbury
119
40%
182
60%
301
Swale
39%
257
61%
419
Dartford 83
43%
108
57%
191
Gravesham
184
Sevenoaks 75 97
172
County
1103
1622
2725

20. HNF Pupils and Secondary School Destination
Year 6 HNF pupils and year 7 school destination in Sept 2016
Type of school
Totals %
Special school 80
49%
Mainstream school 71
43%
Other 12 8%
Total
163
Mainstream pupils
Number with HNF claims since Sept 2016
Number with EHCPs
43 (60%) 3
Number without EHCP
28 (40%) 2 5

21. Conclusion
The % of CYP with EHCPs in mainstream schools drops by 20% from year 6 to year 7.

22. Conclusion
Secondary schools’ HNF claims are more likely to be for an EHCP (58% – 70%) than without an EHCP. Eg. Out of all the HNF claims for Year 10, 70% of the CYP have an EHCP and 30% don’t.

23. % of CYP who received HNF and went on to be issued with an EHCP

24. Review of High Needs Funding
In partnership with schools we want to look at practice and provision where:
There are more than 10 applications for high needs funding (will vary depending on size of school).
Applications include a majority of 1:1 provision.
Any HNF application that is over the special school cost for that need type.
There is evidence of poor quality provision plans, poor outcomes or limited evidence of ‘assess, plan, do, review cycle’.
Lack of evidence of impact and/or progress at reapplication.
Limited use of the LIFT process and the available support to increase capacity in the school