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EAST NORFOLK

Sixth Form College

Students travel from all over East Norfolk and North Suffolk to our Sixth Form College at Gorleston-on-Sea.

Students travel from all over East Norfolk and North Suffolk to our Sixth Form College at Gorleston-on-Sea.

Study Programmes for Learners with a Learning Difficulty or Disability

What do we mean by LLDD

Many definitions used in current literature and legislation- Learners with Learning Difficulties and

• r Disabilities, Special Educational Needs,

Additional Needs, Disability, High Needs

• All definitions used interchangeably in this

presentation

• All LLDD are High Needs Learners
• Preferred term is Disability, Difficulty or

Disadvantage

Aims

• To outline the context by which study

programmes have arisen in the way we are defining them today in Post 16 education

• Show one practical way study programmes are

delivered in a Sixth Form College that yields curriculum and personal achievement in a financially viable package for LLDD

Objectives

• Understand context at national and local

levels for how Sports / Hobbies (S/H) and Employability / Supported Work Placement (E/SWP) for LLDD have developed

• Working design of S/H & E/SWP study

programmes for LLDD that are cost effective and curriculum rich for successful progression

Drivers for Change

Local Need for Change

Gorleston, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft have

• High unemployment
• Areas of High Social Deprivation
• Below National Average GCSE results in Year 11

60% of EN College students come from schools who achieve below the national average in leaving school with 5 or more GCSEs at C grade or above, including Maths and English

Numbers of LLDD at EN

• Norfolk writes 300 S139a or Learning Difficulties

Assessments per year for Year 11 pupils with High Needs Learning (HNL)

• EN enrols 50 Norfolk HNL per year - 17% of

Norfolk High Needs Learners but Not 17% of Year 11 pupils leaving school

• HNL increased from 3 funded (2010) to 30 (2013)
• ut of 60 enrolled (2013)
• 2014 levelling out at 60 HNL – 50 Norfolk, 10

Suffolk

Government Post 16 Education Policy

• Wolf Report 2011 on Post 16 education progression

routes and principles that guide study programmes to deliver skills that result in jobs or further learning

• Ofsted Report 2011 on Post 16 LLDD education higher

risk of not achieving

• ‘Building Engagement, Building Futures’ 2011 maximise

participation

• ‘New Challenges, New Chances’ 2011 strong work offer

Post 16 Funding

• Loss of Post 16 Enrichment funding 2010/11
• Study programme 50% award v 50% non

taught 2012/13

• Additional Learning Support - Place Plus and

Disadvantage allocations 2012

Lack of Achievement for LLDD

• 30% of young people who had a statement of

special educational needs when they were in Year 11, and 22% of young people with a declared disability, were not in any form of education, employment or training when they reached age 18 in 2009 compared with 13% of their peers.

Reported in Ofsted 2011 Progression post-16 for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities

Lack of Achievement for LLDD

• At 16 years 15% SEN pupils compared to 7%

non SEN pupils are ‘Not in Education, Employment nor Training’

• 36% SEN pupils are not doing the subjects

they wish to do because of inaccessible curriculum (assessment, teaching styles, and resource issues) and attitudes (1, 2, 3)

EN Success and Retention

• Success (2012) Disability 79%
• Retention (2012) Disability 90%
• Success (2012) No Disability 81%
• Retention (2012) No Disability 92%
• How to close 2% gap in success and retention

between learners with a disability and those without a disability?

ENSFC Overview

• 2012/13 awarded Prince’s Trust Award in English

for the commitment for inspirational teaching

• 7 years in a row, East Norfolk has been the “Top

College for Sport” in the East of England

• Over 350 colleges in the UK and for the last

twelve years East Norfolk Sixth Form College has been in the top 20

ENSFC Overview

• Some 275 students gained the equivalent of

three GCSE A levels in 2012/13

• Over 400 students went to 95 universities to

study in 113 different degree areas in 2013.

• 1850 learners (2012), Grade 2 (2013)
• 100 learners withdrawing
• Good Value Added Learning
• 25% with a difficulty, disadvantage or disability

Additional Needs Overview

• 450 learners with a Difficulty, Disadvantage or

Disability

• 60 High Needs Learners (HNL) with complex

needs

• 20 HNL with 7 hrpwk plus in and out of class
• 10 HNL with 8 – 23 hrpwk plus in and out of class

Response to Deprivation and Disadvantage

• Pastoral, Welfare and ALS provision integrated

with Curriculum delivery across L2 and L3

• Personal Tutor for every student
• Career advice, work placement co-ordination,

counselling, subsidised and free transport, free books and examination entries for F/T students

• Gifted and Talented access Foundation

Scholarships

The Study Programmes

What are they?

• Sports / Hobbies – 12 students
• Employability / Supported Work Placement –

6 students

• Within a standard “6 block” time table
• Pilot projects with small numbers of students

in 2012

• Mainstream in September 2013

Profile

• Small student number but high staff intensity
• Costed to High Needs Learners (SEN/LDA)
• Often with an element 3 over £6K cost
• Part of time table with registration and

attendance

• No difference to subject based class

Hours and Pounds

• LLDD 3 subjects, S/H or E/SWP, Study Skills

Block (1:1 or Small group 1:4)

• LLDD 855 hrpa v 608 hrpa for Non LLDD
• S/H & E/SWP 4.5 hours each x 38 weeks
• 18 LLDD are HNL so £4K plus £6K with

element 3 funding

• S/H & E/SWP costed at small group or 1:1

within Place Plus Model

Benefits

• Move from a “dependency” on high levels of

support in school, towards “independency”

• LLDD with 23 hours in September now 15

hours a week via S/H

• Immature and attitudinal LLDD now has 2 p/t

jobs since starting E/SWP

• Place Plus funding for LLDD delivers on a

reduced ALS per head than 2 years ago (50 – 100% reduction)

Conclusion

S/H & E/SWP Study Programmes do 3 things

• Provide a Good Service
• Provide a Fast Service
• Provide an Expensive Service

Resources and funding limit number (15 - 25) LLDD within student population of 1850

• Cost all expenditure to Place Plus
• Reasonable cost units (Audit and LA friendly)

Lessons Learnt

• Difficult to set up – national projects via LSIS

helped bring about a cross college approach

• Requires effective management for

curriculum, staffing and funding yearly

• LLDD have personalised planning and reviews
• Do not replicate work - Personalised Planning

and Reviews needed for Place Plus Funding so

• ne work completes the other

Outcomes

• Increased reputation of college for inclusion

and progression

• Working example of Wolf Report

Recommendations

• Cost effective funding methodology
• Cross college communication improvements
• Employer relations developed for non LLDD

study programme for volunteering, work placements and apprenticeships

Immediate Challenges to the Study Programmes

SEN Code of Practice (Indicative 14/03/14)

• ECH Plan – local design, key co-ordinators for

16 – 25 years

• Local Offer – Transport for HNL, Partnerships

between colleges and other providers

• Family/Carer and YP role – Choice and

Complaint

• Specified information about provision,

policies, plans and practice in relation to disabled learners

Children's and Families Act 2014

LA role for

• identifying children and young people with

special educational needs and disabilities

• Duty to keep education and care provision

under review Health Authority role

• to bring certain children to local authority’s

attention

Sources

1. Social Market Foundation 2007 ‘Disability, Skills and Work - Raising Our Ambitions’ 2. DCSF ‘Special Educational Needs in England: January 2009 Statistics’ 3. Education and Skills Select Committee: ‘SEN Third Report of Session 2005-6 Vol 3’ 4. Ofsted Report August 2011. ‘Progression post-16 for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.’ 100232 5. Ofsted Briefing Paper for Inspection September 2012. ‘Pupils with medical needs.’ 090202 6. Review of Vocational Education – Wolf Report. December 2011. Accessed 19/03/14 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attach ment_data/file/180504/DFE-00031-2011.pdf