1. EPHA / ECC Spring Term Meeting 2019

2. Agenda SEND Update Attendance Specialist Team
Essex Data Traded Services
Essex Partnership Conference 10th May
Progress on the sale of EES
Rachel Pritchard from Primary Learning Network TSA: SSIF Reading Programme

3. SEND Update
130 schools have signed the statement – The Headteacher Roundtable will review the position at the end of this term
SEND Strategy – Public consultation
Trauma Perceptive Practice
Peer Review on Exclusions 3rd / 4th April

4. Aims of the redesign
A new structure to support a new way of working, which will enable us to achieve the following:
Reduction in out of county placements and transfers
More children and young people will be placed in the right school/ setting in Essex to meet their individual needs and more children and young people will remain in their placement without the need to move throughout their education.
Reduction in the number of EHC Plans
Schools will have access to the provision and support they need to meet each child/ young person’s needs without needing recourse to the statutory system resulting in a reduction in the number of children and young people requiring an EHC Plan in mainstream education.
Improved attendance for children/young people with SEND
Attendance rates for children and young people with SEND will improve and exclusion rates for children and young people with SEND will decrease.
Continued growth of the school-led SEND system
Clusters of schools will be supported and empowered to make decisions based on accurate assessment of need and access to provision to enable them to support that need and improve outcomes.
Reduction in the number of appeals
A reduction in the number of complaints and appeals to the SEND Tribunals in the system because parental confidence will increase, are well informed and supported by schools/settings and the local authority and relationships between schools/settings and the local authority are improved.
Young people are fully supported in their transition into adulthood
A reduction in the numbers of young people with SEND who are NEET and more young adults with SEND are able to maintain their independence and have access to supported employment.
Three pillars of the strategy…..

5. Early engagement with staff Feb/ March
Next Steps
Early engagement with staff
Feb/ March
Wider stakeholder engagement
Commence 18th March for 6 weeks
Staff consultation
23rd April – 5th June
Recruitment and selection
July - Aug
Go-Live
January 2020

6. Attendance Specialists
Work in the Quadrants under Heads of Education and Early Years and in partnership with Compliance and Education Access at the Council.
Early help for Schools and Families with the range of issues affecting good attendance .
Support schools with carrying out any Education Supervision Orders.
Dedicated telephone line and contact in each quadrant for schools and parents.
New website page- route via ESI- Pupil Welfare- Attendance Specialists
Quadrant Attendance Conferences in June 2019 including all the strands of attendance at the Council- Compliance and CME/EHE- for Headteachers and Senior Leaders.

7. Contacts for South
James Moir Senior Attendance Specialist Team Leader Jenny White Attendance Specialist Quadrant Attendance Specialists

8. Contacts for West Derai Jones Senior Attendance Specialist Team Leader
Daisy Alexander
Attendance Specialist
Quadrant Attendance Specialists

9. Contacts for North- East
Sue Thomas Senior Attendance Specialist Team Leader Jenni Noakes Attendance Specialist Quadrant Attendance Specialists

10. Contacts for Mid
Simone Webb Senior Attendance Specialist Team Leader Liz Newman Attendance Specialist Quadrant Attendance Specialists

11. Essex Data Traded Services
Includes all data that schools have historically received from the Local Authority
Subscription to Fischer Family Trust (FFT) - School and national data (KS1-5 – including progress from Early Years)
Essex Primary School Data booklets - School, LA and national data
(Early Years, Phonics, KS1,2 attainment and progress, Groups) Available Mid-August
NOVA reports - School, LA, Regional and national data
(Early Years, Phonics, KS1,2,4,5)
NOVA is used to create the Essex Primary School Data booklet and this is just one aspect of this tool as schools can use this, if purchasing the LA traded data package, to create their own customised reports
Data Training – ASP, IDSR, FFT Aspire, Essex primary School Data Booklet, NOVA
It is essential that all schools have a firm understanding of how well their pupils are progressing and how their school’s achievement data compares with schools locally and nationally for all pupils and for key groups.
There are a number of tools available to school leaders and governors in order to support them with this including the DfE’s Analyse School Performance (ASP), the Ofsted Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR), Fischer Family Trust (FFT), NOVA and the Essex School Data booklet.
This Traded Service supports schools in understanding and interpreting all of the data available, both published free of charge and through a subscription.
Prices are cheaper than originally discussed with EPHA  - factored in potential to achieve a discount if all schools within a partnership sign up = 5%
The package is an all or nothing package. This means you cannot split the cost of FFT + the additional LA products (NOVA, Data Booklet and training)
No single school will be paying more than £220 for the additional LA products (NOVA, Data Booklet and training) on top of what it would costs of if schools went to FFT direct.
Most schools will be paying considerably less than £220 for the extra LA products than if they went to FFT direct.
The pricing that has been agreed is based on a not for profit approach from the Local Authority but schools need to recognise that these are all things we have to pay out for

12. Essex Data Traded services Charges
Primary Schools: includes all the above
Cost
Cost with 5% discount if all schools within a partnership/MAT sign up to this package
Schools with less than 120 pupils
£309
£294
Schools with between 120 and 209 pupils
£409
£388
Schools with between 210 and 314
£519
£493
Schools with between 315 and 420
£619
£588
School with between 421 and 629
£719
£683
School with more than 630
£819
£778

13. Essex Data Traded Services Charges
Partnership Data reports
If there is full sign up from all schools within the partnership, a full and comprehensive pack will be provided at no extra cost.
Additional Bespoke Options for all schools to purchase
0.5-day data training for school staff/governors
0.5-day data preparation for Ofsted
Annual Subscription to ALPS
If you have any data needs over and above those listed please for a discussion
As this is the first year of introducing this package if partnerships want to have a discussion re the sign up to this package please contact Nicola Woolf at
For all other queries please contact:

14. Partnership conference 10th May 2019 Sale of EES
Recruitment and Retention Strategy
Relationship and Sex education guidance
From 2020, relationships, sex and health education will be compulsory in all secondary schools, while all primaries will have to teach relationships and health education.
Ofsted Education Inspection Framework
Assessment update 4th March 2019