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The SEN and Disability Reforms:one month in, and counting…
Ann Gross
Director,Special Needs and Children Services Strategy
Annual Parent Carer Participation Event
1 October 2014
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The ‘old’ system of SEND support was complicated, expensive and delivered poor outcomes
• Parents struggle to find the services that should be helping them, have to battle to get the help their children need, and have to tell their stories time and again.
• Moving from children’s to adults’ services can be very difficult.
• English LAs spend over £5 billion a year on SEND provision, and yet those with special needs are far more likely to achieve poorly at GCSE, Not be in Education, Employment or Training, or be unemployed.
• These issues affect a lot of people: 1 in 5 children are currently identified as having some form of SEND, with 2.8% having a more complex need.
We want all children and young people to achieve well in their early years, at school and in college; find employment; lead happy and fulfilled lives; and have choice and control over their support. The SEND reforms will implement a new approach which seeks to join up help across education, health and care, from birth to 25. Help will be offered at the earliest possible point, with children and young people with SEND and their parents and carers fully involved in decisions about their support and what they want to achieve. This will help lead to better outcomes and more efficient ways of working.
Aims of the reforms
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Working with children, young people and parents
Section 19 of the Children and Families Act 2014 lays the foundation for working in
partnership with children and young people and their parents
and carers.
It states that local authorities must have regard to:
• The views, wishes and feelings of the child, young person and their parents
• The importance of allowing them to participate in decisions relating to themselves (or their child)
• The importance of providing information to enable active participation in decision-making
• The need to support the child, young person and their parents to facilitate development and enable the best possible outcomes, educational or otherwise.
Managing transition to the new system
Children and young people who have a Statement or LDA will be transferred to the new system gradually:• young people
in further education with an LDA will transfer by 1 September 2016; and
• children and young people with a Statement will transfer by 1 April 2018.
To ensure that support
continues, statements and
LDAs will remain in force
during the transition
period.
Local authorities will be expected
to transfer children and
young people to the new system
in advance of key transition points
in their education. They must develop a
local plan.
There will be support on
hand for families
Changes for young people aged 16+
Key developments• New rights for young people alongside an ongoing role for parent
carers• Applying the Code to FE colleges and beyond• Children and Adult services – preparing for adulthood• YP Participation – not as well developed as for parent carers
Support and advice• New legislation and the Code• EPIC, YP materials • FE Guide to the reforms, presentation for FE college leaders,
Preparing for Adulthood support to local areas• Study programmes for 16-19, or up to 25 if they have LDA/EHC Plan
Looking ahead• Monitoring of YP participation (as part of overall monitoring)• Workshop on YP Participation in November 2014
Working with health partners
Legal Framework
• Children and Families Act 2014 / SEND Code of Practice
• Care Act 2014:• NHS Mandate 2014
Resources and activity
• Joint DfE/DH Ministerial letters about the reforms
• Guide for health on new reforms published - 9 September
• DH published information about the reforms aimed at Health and Well-being boards
• Other health-specific materials published by RCs
• Working closely with NHS England, who are providing support to CCGs about the reforms
• Working closely with DH on outstanding policy issues – eg, redress and data collection
Challenges and opportunities
• Feedback from Parents about lack of engagement
• Major reform programme – take time for the culture to change
• Need to work on a number of fronts – local and national
Supporting, monitoring and challenging
Support Monitor and Challenge
LA/PCF survey
LA Champions
SEND Advisers
DeliveryPartners
Performance Data
Published Materials
PCFs
DfE/DH
Communications
DfE DH
Local Authorities
Parent Carer Forums
Delivery Partners
NNPCF
Children, young people and parents
IASS/IS
Local Offer
Med
ia
EY/Schools/Post-16
CCGs
VCS/other Orgs
NHS England
Moving Forward – the role of DfE
Defining and implementing support, monitoring and challenge/accountability framework
Communications / feedback
Identify and address “blockers”
Working with partners
Servicing and supporting the new system
Key milestones2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
15 Oct – Minister attends NNPCF meeting
Autumn – Decisions on funding made
Oct/Nov – LA/PCF Survey
Sept – All LDAs transferred
April – new Parent Carer assessment law in place
April – All statementstransferred
Nov/Dec – Easy Read guide published
Autumn – Ofsted Report published
April – new Young Offender provisions