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Special Educational Needs and Disability Reforms 2014

Coventry 20 March 2014

Philippa Stobbs Assistant Director Council for Disabled Children

SEND reform

• Timescales
• Broad architecture
• Schools’ provisions
• Principles

SEND reform

2010 Aut Ofsted review: A statement is not enough DfE call for evidence 2011 Mar Support and Aspiration: A new approach to SEN and disability 2011 Sept Pathfinders started 2012 May Support and Aspiration: A new approach to SEN and disability: Progress and Next Steps 2012 Sept Draft provisions 2012 Sept - Dec Pre-legislative scrutiny by Education Select Committee 2012 Dec Education Select Committee publishes report Pathfinder extension announced

SEND reform

2013 Feb Children and Families Bill introduced into Parliament 2013 Mar Commons Committee Stage Draft Regulations Draft Code of Practice ‘Indicative’ 2013 Oct Scrutiny in the House of Lords Code of Practice consultation Consultation on Regulations and Transitional arrangements 13 Mar 2014 Royal Assent 2014 Early Code of Practice published Transitional arrangements published 2014 Sept Implementation

An important reminder:

All current requirements stay in place until: new legislation is implemented new regulations come into force new Code of Practice is issued

Children and Families Act: Part 3

• Principles
• Definitions and scope
• Local integration of health, care and education

and joint commissioning

• Education, health and care needs assessment

& plans

• Personal budgets
• Local offer
• Schools’ provisions
• SEN Code of Practice

Definitions and scope

• SEN definition the same
• From birth and up to 25
• Young offenders
• LA and all children & young people in area with

SEN:

– LA to identify – LA responsibility

• Strategic duties include disabled children and

young people

• All schools’ duties apply to directly to academies

Local offer

• Support available for children and young

people with SEN and disabilities

• Regulations:

– what the local offer should include – who should be consulted – complaints mechanism

• Develop the offer with parents, schools,

colleges, other services

• Must include provision to support transition to

adulthood

Education, health and care needs assessment & plans

• EHC plans replace statements and 139A assessments
• EHCP extends to FE, training, an apprenticeship or if

‘NEET’ (not in education, employment or training)

• Other provisions similar to a statement
• Regulations set out how assessment conducted
• Duty to secure special educational provision in EHCP
• Duty to secure health care provision
• Strengthened duty on social care
• Health & social care needs to be recorded in EHCP
• Rights of appeal the same, but include FE
• Admission to a special academy or free school

without an EHC plan

Local integration of health, care and education

• Integrate services to promote the well-being
• Joint commissioning by LAs & CCGs
• SEN and disability
• LAs to keep education & social care under review
• Requirement to co-operate to meet EHC needs:

– Schools – Colleges – Local authorities, including social care – Alternative provision – Health agencies

Changing health structures

• Health and Well-being Boards
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Health and Well-being Strategies
• Arrangements for co-operation to improve

children’s well-being

• Work in 2012 by Children and Young people’s

Health Outcomes Forum

• Healthwatch

School provisions

• Provisions apply to academies
• Requirements to:

– have a SENCO – inform parents if child has SEN – inform young people – use ‘best endeavours,’ schools and FE – publish information on how they meet the needs of children with SEN

Draft SEN Code of Practice

• Revised Code of Practice
• Removal of School Action and School Action

Plus; introduction of ‘SEN Support’, graduated response

• External specialists at any point
• Individual education plans will not be required

by the Code; schools required to keep records

• Removal of behaviour from ‘behavioural,

emotional and social difficulties.’ New term, ‘social, mental and emotional health’

• Evidence of a relevant and purposeful response

A changing context for schools

• Curriculum and assessment
• School funding changes
• Health changes

Principles

General principles for local authorities:

• views, wishes and feelings of children, young

people, parents

• importance of full participation in decision-

making

• importance of information and support
• children’s development and best possible
• utcomes

Disability in Part 3 Children and Families Bill

Council for Disabled Children website http://www.councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/ Council for Disabled Children 8, Wakley Street London EC1V 7QE tel: +44 (0)20 7843 1900 fax: +44 (0)20 7843 6313