Rochdale CouncilLocal Offer - SEN Provision Map 2014
Legislation supports that the vast majority of children’s SEN should be met within a mainstream school. For those children and young people with assessed needs that are over and above those which can be met within a mainstream school with additional support, a resource base or special school may be considered (see below)
Through multi-agency assessment and planning, we match pupil needs to this provision so that we can agree an appropriate placement.
( for links to school websites)
All providers / Mainstream (inclusion) / Additionally resourced provision / Special School / Other providersWho is this for: / Most children and young people (CYP) with SEND / CYP with complex SEN – needs significantly more - specialist assessment / CYP with complex and multiple SEN – specialist assessment
Level of service / Universal & targeted / Targeted & specialist / Specialist
Early Years / All providers are inclusive and meet most SEN / N/A / Springside
Newlands / N/A
Primary / All schools are inclusive / Marland Hill Primary (HI) / Springside school
Newlands school
Brownhillschool (BESD)
Secondary / All schools are inclusive / Matthew Moss (HI)
Wardle (PD) / Redwood school
Brownhillschool (BESD)
16 - 19 / St Anne’s Academy Sixth Form
Cardinal Langley Sixth Form College
Rochdale Sixth form College
Hopwood Hall College
Bury College
Oldham College
There are other providers across Greater Manchester – if you wish to apply / some have eligibility criteria. / N/A / Redwood school / Local Work Based Training providers: - Rathbone;
Rochdale Training;
KYP;
Skills Solutions;
There are other providers across Greater Manchester – if you wish to apply / some have eligibility criteria.
19 -25 / Hopwood Hall College - Steps / N/A / N/A / Local Work Based Training providers: - Rathbone;
Rochdale Training;
KYP;
Skills Solutions;
New Bridge Horizons
There are other providers across Greater Manchester – if you wish to apply / some have eligibility criteria.
Services have a responsibility to spend public money wisely and fairly, therefore local provision should always be considered first. Where it is agreed that a child or young person’s needs are unusually complex and that local provision cannot meet these needs, we will assess a child’s needs and an independent school or a school out of the borough may be considered. The following providers are used for some children and young people in Rochdale in these circumstances.
Independent special school / Independent Specialist Providers
14 - 16
Who is this for: / CYP with unusually complex and multiple SEN – specialist assessment
Level of service / Specialist; low incidence
Early Years / Sea Shell Trust (HI; MSI; ASD; SLD)
Inscape House
Nugent House
Belmont School
Rossendale
Bright Futures / N/A
Primary / Sea Shell Trust
Nugent House
Inscape House
Wilsic Hall School
Eastwood Grange
Ashcroft School
Cedar House School
Underley Gdn School
Wings
Belmont School
Rossendale
Bright Futures / N/A
Secondary / Sea Shell Trust
Inscape House
Wilsic Hall School
Nugent House / Nisai Learning
16 - 19 / Sea Shell Trust
Wilsic Hall School
Bridge College / Nisai Learning
19 -25 / Bridge College;
Royal College Manchester;
Royal National College for the Blind;
New College Worcester (HI)
How to request an Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment
We are improving our assessment process so that it is quicker and easier–we have a draft version of the new assessment process – we are trialling this with the new My Plans.
An EHC assessment is intended for children and young people who need significantly more than will be provided through the ‘local offer’. They will typically have complex needs and at least two agencies involved in providing extra, specialist support. They are likely to need a high level of support throughout life.
How everyone works together to identify a child’s SEND (local authority; schools; other providers; services) and how we all include parents/carers and children & young people with SEND
For children and young people who have low incidence disabilities and may or may not have a statement or My Plan – includingphysical disability; visual impairment (VI) and hearing impairment (HI); social communication and interaction difficulties (e.g. ASD); speech, language and communication needs, – families may access services fromRANS (Rochdale Add Needs Service) by a referral from a health professional, a school or setting; or parent/carer can contact us direct - mailto: or contact RANS Leadership Team, Telephone 01706 926400
RANS:- We determine if we are the right service to be involved on the basis of a child’s needs. The level of the childor young person’s needs;what barriers they need help to overcome and how well they are able to function.We work alongside colleagues in all other teams and settings so that families get a co-ordinated service(‘tell my story once’). We work to build the capacity of a setting to meet a child/young person’s (cyp) needs as well as working with the child/young person and their family. Central to the way we work – we listen to the views of children and young people, involving them in decisions that affect them.
The educational psychology service (EPS)works with educational settings (0-25) and with families, through consultation, to identify a child’s needs and develop strategies to enable them to overcome barriers to learning. We support schools in monitoring a child’s progress; evaluating intervention programmes and ensuring they are able to access the next step in their learning journey (e.g. through coping strategies, independence skills).We also offer consultation and interventions packages for individuals and groups of children and young people. Requests for our services come through schools referrals.
Intervention packages include: cognitive behavioural therapy; selective mutism; solution focused brief therapy; social skills training; social stories etc
All services in Rochdale use a person centred approach to identifying needs – what is important ‘to’ you as well as what is important ‘for’ you. All professionals, the child/young person and parents/carers contribute to one assessment document and then to one My Plan.
We start with child and parents completing the person centred plan section of My Plan and professionals fill in the summary of their assessments – they try to do assessments together so that they come to a shared view of the child’s needs.
Together we agree what action is needed to support a child so that they make good and outstanding progress and their achievements will be at least as good as other children who started from the same level. We work together to help the child take steps towards their aspirations for the future.
All staff are trained in person centred thinking and the principles of key working. They have all been trained to use the Rochdale education, health and care (EHC) Plan called ‘My Plan’.
Options for a personal budget
Who is eligible?If you have an EHC plan and if a child’s needs are complex and cannot be met by what is available in the mainstream school or special school and from the other services that are usually available (e.g. health services); or from the social care services described in the local offer – then you can ask for a personal budget. A personal budget can be agreed if it means that the actions and targets in the EHC plan (My Plan) can be met. Everyone must agree what the budget is to be used for and this must be described in terms of what the child will achieve. A personal budget can give flexibility to how resources are used – for instance, education and social care and/or health payments can be used to pay for one personal assistant to work in a number of settings with the child (and maybe support their travel). It means we can think of individual solutions to individual needs.
A personal budget can be ‘cash’ (you are given a budget that has to be managed as a separate account to your family budget); it can be ‘notional’ (services use the money in the way you have all agreed. You do not have to manage it.); it can be paid to an organisation that manages personal budgets on behalf of parents and they will see that it is used as agreed in the My Plan.
Some of the children who have been through the pilot of My Plan will not be eligible for a personal budget because their needs can be met by what services are already providing.
How to ask for one – At a My Plan meeting or review you will discuss what needs to happen to achieve the targets set for your child. You can discuss ideas for actions that may need a flexible or different way of working – “can we look at a personal budget to do this?” Everyone will consider the ideas. You will all have to decide: if it is necessary; if it will help; what budget is available and if it can be done.
What information, advice and support is available for having one – Weare looking at how we can supportfamilies who have a ‘cash’ personal budget and we will build on the support that is there for social care Direct Payments. More information will be added here.
Assisted Home to School Travel
Eligibility– Below is the link to Rochdale’s transport policy. This explains what help is available to support you getting your child to school. Where transport is provided, we must always think ahead to how we will support the development of independent travel skills or assisted use of public transport so that every child is equipped for adulthood by the time they school.
http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/the_council/policies_and_plans/children_and_young_people/school_transport_policy.aspx
RANS works with children and young people with VI to develop independent travel skills. Where transport is provided – it should not be ‘forever’ except for the few most complex children. We must review arrangements every year form this point of view.
Health care provision (nursing; therapies etc)
Information about all health services can be found on Healthwatch Rochdale
and on the Family Services Directory –
Childcare
Information is on the Family Services Directory –
Social care provision (support for families –children with very complex needs)
e.g personal care packages
See Short Breaks Statement – http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/the_council/delivery_strategies_and_review/children_and_young_people/short_breaks_statement.aspx
Support for preparing for adulthood
This is on the Family Services Directory – See Transitions Support Services –
We have specialist services that support transition to adulthood – RANS see below
There is a Raising Participation Team – they make sure there are good options for education, employment and training. There are personal advisers for every young person provided by Positive Stepsto support them in the move from school into the next stage of education, employment or training – details
Support for preparing for adulthood - RAISING PARTICIPATION TEAM
The Raising Participation Team is responsible for ensuring that young people over the age of sixteen are engaged in either school, FE (further education at college) or training.
To get Information, Advice or Guidance – you will be assigned a personal adviser from Positive Steps. They work in all schools and start working with you before you are 16 so that you are prepared for the next step after Y11 – whether it is education, training or a job. Schools also have a responsibility to give you information, advice and guidance to help you make informed decisions about what you want to do and what options are available to you.
If you want to do ‘A levels’ you will move on to the 6th Form College.
If you want to do some training Positive Steps will arrange this for you. Training tends to be short (usually a 2 month course). It can include a ‘traineeship’ which is preparation for an apprenticeship.
You can do work based learning – Rochdale has an organisation called RADAMA that finds work based learning opportunities for young people. RADAMA is the partnership of Rochdale Learning Providers working collaboratively to promote learning opportunities, raise standards and celebrate success.
RADAMA aims to represent the local providers through skills and network groups, to develop high quality, effective, responsive and reactive learning opportunities to meet individual’s needs.
Your Positive Steps Adviser will set up work based learning for you if this is your chosen option. For more information about RADAMA see their website:-
They also have a ‘live’ vacancies page on their website and this is updated every week:-
If you don’t have any GCSEs:-
•You can join the Youth Contract programme. You will choose whether to carry on with Positive Steps support or whether to access the Prince’s Trust programme for this.
•Redwood School offer Internships for students with significant learning difficulties (SLD – severe learning difficulties)
•You can also access various study programmes – GCSE English and Maths (aiming to achieve a ‘C’ grade so that you can go on to A levels); you can also study Functional Skills’ – this includes…
When you reach the age of 18 – if you have a statement of SEN services are provided by Adult Services instead of Children’s and we take over from the SEN Assessment Team to monitor your progress and placement. The type of provision on offer changes too.
If you are at college this is not likely to be somewhere you go every day – a full time course is 16 hours (usually 3 days).
You will have a personalised package and this may well involve a number of organisations over the week. You can do work experience and voluntary work as well as training. You can do sports and leisure activities – a range of activities can be put together to give you a full week that meets your needs, interests and aspirations. Your Positive Steps Adviser is your point of contact – they will co-ordinate everything and make sure things work out.
We (The Raising Participation Team) track your progress and achievements; we will track that you are still engaged in some education, employment or training (we call this EET). We will have been informed what you wanted to achieve form your education, employment or training and we will check that you are on track to achieve your aspirations and goals (for example – getting a job; being in supported employment; independent living)
How to access any of these options (how it works):- In your last year at school (usually Y11 or Y14) your Positive Steps Adviser (your PA) will complete a Learning Difficulties assessment (LDA) with you. (This will be done as part of the My Plan in future).
Your qualifications + assessed needs will be matched to the range of options open to you. Your PA will follow up your choices to see if providers can meet your individual needs and what support they need to provide for you. There may be an application process – if so your PA will guide and support you through it. If your support needs change, your PA will support you to sort this out. (They will make sure this happens but this is also an opportunity to help you speak for yourself so you will be involved in the discussions).
Where to get information, advice and support – Information is available online from Rochdale’s Family Services Directory
During the year we arrange a number of events to help you think about the options so that you make the best choices for you. You can find out about these through your school or PA.
In March we have a Skills Event – this is like a marketplace with employers on stalls and careers information. This is for all young people.
In October we hold an Education Event – Future First for Y10 and Y11. This year it will be October 18th 2014
We also arrange Pathway Information Sessions about the range of opportunities for young people – these are briefings for other services, schools, governors and parents/carers – so that they have good information when they advise you.
What to do if you’re not satisfied (making a complaint):-
If you are not happy with a placement offer and you do not think this is being handled in the right way or not getting sorted out – first talk to your PA; if you are still concerned you can ask the Escalation and Resolution Panel to review everything and they will decide if something else can be done. There are senior managers on this panel and they will decide what, if anything will be done about your concerns. If they think everything is being done correctly and that you have the right options they will make sure someone meets with you to explain their decision and arrange to support you to move forward. Fill in the form attached here and send it to…
If you then want to take things further you can follow the Council’s Complaints procedure. This means that someone who is not involved in services gives an independents view:-
http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/the_council/contact_us/complaints_and_compliments.aspx
If you are not happy with the support or information you get - the provider of that service will have their own complaints procedure for you to follow (ask your PA for help with this). You can also then ask the Escalation and Resolution Panel as above.