Inclusion SEN & Disability Services - ISEND

Nathan Caine

Head of ISEND Provider Services

Our key strategies• Provide help earlier to children and young people

• Build education provider capacity to meet the needs of children and young people

• Integrate and streamline a responsive, sustainable offer to schools

• Reduce demand for statutory processes

• Target deployment and collaborate to achieve outcomes (commissioned approach)

• Create effective frontline services

Key Principles

• Separation of A&P and Provider Services• Early intervention is essential• Integrated working is key to service delivery• Clear route of access for support• Clarity over functions that are:

– School-delivered

– Core Local Authority

– Additional/Traded

Changes to ISEND Services• New management structure in place from

1st September

• Full staffing implemented on 1st February 2015

• Revised traded and core offer to schools from 1st April 2015

• New ‘Front Door’ into ISEND from term 5

ISEND Provider Services

Fiona WrightAssistant Director: Schools, Youth &

Inclusion

Nathan CaineHead of Provider

Services

Intervention & Support Manager Provision Manager

Business Development

Manager

Intervention & Support

(Behaviour, Attendance, EPs, Traveller Welfare,

Anti Bullying, Legal Interventions,

LLSS, ASD, Early Years)

Provision(Sensory Needs, Flexible Learning,

E Learning, Traveller

Education, EAL teachers

Principal EP

ISEND Assessment & Planning

Operations Manager Social Work

Assessment & Planning

Fiona WrightAssistant Director: Schools, Youth &

Inclusion

Alison BorlandHead of Assessment &

Planning

Operations Manager Community Resources

Senior Assessment & Planning Manager

Workforce Development & Implementation

Manager

ISEND Project Officer

EHC Assessment & Planning team

Service Offer

3 Levels of Access Across Services:

1) Statutory

2) Core

3) Traded – access by SLA (including top-up)

Service Offer

Statutory (ALL schools), for example:• Statutory Assessment processes and associated work

(i.e. child assessments, casework)• Attendance – where children meet LA threshold• Exclusion processes• Provision for ill children

Service Offer

Core Offer Across All Services, for example:

EPS – Strategic Planning (regular meetings) and targeted support

CLASS– whole school and support for individual children with language, learning communication and ASD

ESBAS – whole school and individual support for children with attendance or behavioural difficulties, including targeted interventions**BSS for maintained schools only

SNS – Support to children with sensory needs as part of their statement

EAL – Support for individual children who have EAL**Maintained schools only

Core offer for each area of ISEND Provider Services will be published towards the end of Term 4.

Service Offer

Traded Services

Additionality across all services, for example:• Non-statutory/core work (e.g. EPS)• BSS and EAL to Academies or Free Schools• Non-statutory attendance functions (late swoops, whole-

school work)• CLASS training packages• E-Learning for individual children

Traded offers across all services are being revised and will be available for purchase from 1st April.

The context:

challenges and aims

Scope: which

children and how many?

Conditions: what needs

to be in place?

The front door

mechanism: how it works

Support pathways:

what happens

next

1 2 3 4 5

Three aims:(i) Filter

requests for support(ii) Swift, effective,

integrated support(iii) Build settings’ capacity

All non-traded

referrals from

schools/academies

Three conditions:(i) Statutory(ii) Core Offer(iii) Clear expectation of schools / settings

Four steps:(i) Contact(ii) Info.- gathering(iii) Panel decision-making(iv) Allocation

Possible Outcomes:

(i) Back to school for discussion(ii) Support offered(iii) Passes to A&P team for SA

ISEND Front Door

The front door: Contacts and Requests

Aim

Who

How

To screen contacts, questions and requests for support systematically, and direct them to the most appropriate route swiftly and effectively

• Schools and other settings• Must be broad enough for parents and professionals• Must not be seen as a way to bypass appropriate processes• Admin staff – initial contact from the school / setting and initial

information-gathering on a rota system

Will be as simple as possible – staffed via some form of rota system•Phone-line – weekdays, office hours•Online contact formBoth would use the same guided form to gather information consistently

Contact / request Information-gathering Panel decision-making1 2 3

The front door: Information-gathering

Aim

Who

How

To gather enough information about the case and the wider context to enable a decision to be taken about the package of support or appropriate further steps

• “Identified Professional” – pool of experts (advisers, EPs, team leaders) on a rota / availability system

• Existing cases - can be referred to this stage by professionals if “stuck”• Requests for Statutory Assessment – enter this stage

• Identified Professional – gather information, iteratively• Wider pool of experts – consult as necessary• Decide on route – (a) back to the school / setting, (b) route to service

(for traded/core offer), or (c) consideration by panel

Contact / request Information-gathering Panel decision-making1 2 3

The front door: Panel decision-making

Aim

Who

How

To enable credible, multi-service decisions to be taken about the right integrated packages of support or the appropriate further steps for the right children

• Senior managers of key ISEND services• Identified Professionals (those who worked on the case at the previous

step)• Headteacher/school representation

• Fortnightly multi-service panel discussion – to review cases• Identified Professionals (from part 2 of process) – present cases• Panel – takes decisions, based on clear criteria and thresholds• School Representative

Contact / request Information-gathering Panel decision-making1 2 3

Overview of Contact Routes

More Information

Breakfast meetings for heads and SEN/Pastoral Managers:•Monday 23rd March – 8am @ Powdermills Hotel•Wednesday 25th March – 8am @ East Sussex National

Volunteers for Panel representation