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Our special partnership
- Author:
- SINGLETON David
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 12.04.06, 2006, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
This article reports on the work of regional partnerships set up by the Government in 2000 to improve services for children with special educational needs. The partnerships aims to help local authorities and other providers of special education needs services work together to share experiences and knowledge, and to plan services as a region. The article discusses the work of West Midlands management group.
A practice guide for those working to improve outcomes for young offenders who have or may have special educational needs. Part 1: strategy
- Author:
- COUNCIL FOR DISABLED CHILDREN
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 10
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice guide is for staff working to improve outcomes for young offenders who have or may have special educational needs and on implementing the young offender duties in the Children and Families Act 2014. It provides a summary of the Children and Families Act duties on supporting children and young people with special educational needs in youth custody. It also includes information and questions for senior and local leaders in education, youth offending, health and social care to consider to help them when developing local policies, commissioning services and establishing systems to meet the new duties. It draws on discussions held with relevant organisations and professionals at events organised by the Council for Disabled Children with the National Development Team for Inclusion between October 2015 and March 2016. Part 2 of the Guide provides information to help put the new duties into day to day practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Local authorities' experiences of improving parental confidence in the special educational needs process
- Authors:
- WHITE Richard, et al
- Publisher:
- National Foundation for Educational Research
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- Slough
The House of Commons Education and Skills Committee Report 2007 on special educational needs (SEN) assessment and funding highlighted parental confidence as a key issue in making provision for children with SEN. The Lamb Inquiry brought together a group of expert advisers and a broader reference group of professionals and parents to investigate how parental confidence in the SEN assessment process might be improved. The Local Government Association commissioned this research to examine the ways in which local authorities work with parents in order to feed the findings into the Lamb Inquiry. Key findings included a need to focus on creating positive relationships and experiences early on in the process, encouraging parental engagement in a collaborative and consultative approach to meeting their child’s needs. A need to focus on ensuring clearer understandings of roles and responsibilities of those involved in meeting the needs of children with SEN was identified. Multi-agency approaches to SEN provision could be expanded through the co-location of teams and the development of virtual teams around the child, which should increase parental confidence when there is visible flexibility in the provision available, so that parents can see that packages of support are tailored to the needs of their child.
Children's services omnibus: wave 3 research report
- Authors:
- LEPANJUURI Katriina, CORNICK Peter, LEACH Tom
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 73
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of findings from the third wave of the Department of Education's Children’s Services Omnibus Survey, which explores senior local authority leaders' perceptions and activities relating to a range of policy areas. Topics covered in the wave 3 survey include: local authority improvement; the social worker workforce - which covers apprenticeships, returning workforce and confidence in the workforce; local authority structures and commissioning arrangements; multi-agency arrangements; sufficiency of care/adoption placements; understanding demand for children's social care; early years home learning environment and parenting programmes; recruitment of early years staff; development of education, health and care plans; and short breaks for disabled children and their families. In total, 78 local authorities, out of 152, responded to the survey, with 68 answering questions on Children’s Social Care; 52 answering questions on Early Years and Childcare; and 54 answering questions on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. (Edited publisher abstract)
SEND: The schools and colleges experience. A report to the Secretary of State for Education by Lee Scott
- Author:
- SCOTT Lee
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 13
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on a short project to look at the experiences that parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and young people with SEND, have of school and colleges. The report draws on face-to-face meeting with approximately 80 parents and 40 young people in England; visits to schools and colleges; and feedback from people with expertise in this area. The findings are summarised under the key themes of: communication; the right level of support; funding; legislation; the voluntary and community sector; the link between education and health; and young people aged 19 upwards. The report highlights the need: to improve communication across all agencies to help implement a person-centred approach; for more training for staff working with children and young people to identify and understand the needs of children and young people with SEND; for local areas to interpret and apply the legislation, and the SEND Code of Practice consistently; for staff in schools and colleges to do more to support children and young people with medical needs; and for local areas to do more to ensure more young adults with SEND have access to training and employment opportunities. The report is aimed at local authorities; teachers; special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs); and senior special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) professionals. (Edited publisher abstract)
Supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 19
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance aims to help health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) support children with special educational needs and disabilities to get joined up care from local services. It provides advice on how best to oversee the implementation of changes made by the Children and Families Act 2014, which introduces a new statutory requirement for local services to work together when providing care and support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. HWBs are responsible for overseeing the implementation of the new requirement, ensuring that local services are fulfilling their role and that children are getting the care they need. The guidance includes questions which an HWB may wish to consider in managing its organisation, building up a picture of local need and looking at local commissioning. (Edited publisher abstract)
Evaluation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Pathfinder Programme: thematic report: collaborative working with health: research report
- Authors:
- CRASTON Meera, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 26
- Place of publication:
- London
This report was produced as part of the evaluation of the Special Educational Needs Disability Pathfinder Programme and focuses on collaborative working between health and the local authority. It is based on evidence gathered from four pathfinder areas via in-depth face-to-face and telephone interviews with key individuals including the pathfinder lead and manager, strategic and operational health professionals, and leads for SEN and social care. The SEND Pathfinder Programme entailed the development and trial of an assessment process, a single, joined up education, health and care plan (EHC), and personal budgets across education, social care and health. The report shows that a diverse range of approaches have been developed to facilitate the required collaborative working with health in relation to the SEN and disability reforms. These approaches included: the establishment of multi-agency governance structures to oversee and direct the work of the pathfinder. the development of new strategies, frameworks and structures to support the creation of new joint commissioning arrangements; development of the ‘health-related’ elements of the local offer via effective engagement and consultation their local health providers; and the setting up of Section 75 agreements between health and the local authority to integrate and pool resources. The report highlights several challenges that need to be addressed, including a need to: operationalise the strategic mechanisms that has been developed; more effectively engage adult strategic and operational health professionals; develop inter-agency information sharing protocols and a wider set of integrated and pooled resources; and clarify who would take on the role of designated medical/clinical officer moving forwards. (Edited publisher abstract)
Evaluation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Pathfinder Programme: thematic report: collaborative working with social care: research report
- Authors:
- SPIVACK Rhian, CRASTON Meera, REDMAN Rachel
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 21
- Place of publication:
- London
Findings from stage two of the evaluation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Pathfinder Programme, focusing on multi-agency service delivery and collaborative working with social care. The programme entailed the development and trial of an assessment process; a single, joined up education, health and care plan (EHC); and personal budgets across education, social care and health. Evidence was gathered from five pathfinder areas via a series of in-depth face to face and telephone interviews, with key individuals including the pathfinder lead and manager, the lead for children’s and adult social care, strategic and operational social care professionals and the lead for specialist health and SEN. The report examines a series of common strategic and operational mechanisms for engagement and collaborative working established by the pathfinders. These include: development of a multi-agency service, joint commissioning, involvement of social care professionals in the development of the pathfinder, involvement of social care professionals in delivery and multi-agency training and support for professionals. The report indicates that while much work has been undertaken to date, further efforts are required to involve all relevant social care professionals in delivery of the EHC planning process and wider reforms. This will require areas to consider how to overcome some remaining challenges, including: moving from strategic development to operationalisation of the new process; reducing duplication of information within EHC plans; the transition between children’s and adult social care; and the reductions in funding and associated operational uncertainty faced by social care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Education - the missing link at transition
- Author:
- MITTLER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 12(2), April 2007, pp.14-21.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article aims to provoke national and local discussion of the proposition that the needs of school-age children and young people with learning disabilities have not been comprehensively addressed in planning and provision following the publication of Valuing People. Since inter-agency collaboration is currently a high priority for central government the author calls for a new attempt to develop a more fully integrated service which includes local education authorities, SEN regional partnerships, Learning and Skills Councils, colleges of further education and the Connexions Service.
Options for partnership between health, education and social services
- Author:
- DESSENT Tony
- Publisher:
- National Association for Special Educational Needs
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- Tamworth
Includes seminar papers on: options for partnerships in meeting special educational needs between health, social and education services; options for paternships with social services - a local authority perspective; and options for partnership - a discussion.