The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Green Paper ‘Support and aspiration’ Bromley Pathfinder Andrew Royle, Strategic Commissioner (Disabilities)

The SEND Green Paper Vision supports better life outcomes for young people gives parents more confidence by giving them control transfers power to frontline professionals and to local communities a new approach to identifying SEN a single assessment process and ‘Education, Health and Care Plan’ a local offer of all services available parents to have the option of a personal budget by 2014 giving parents a real choice of school greater independence to the assessment of children's needs The Green Paper proposes: A radically different system that:

Bromley/Bexley Pathfinder  Successful joint bid to secure DfE Pathfinder status to pilot the proposals in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Green Paper  £75k for 2011/12 and £150k for 2012/13 – Funding is ringfenced for Pathfinder activities  Agreed bid and asked to test:  How we move from current SEN framework to new multi-agency plans from birth to 25, across Education, Health and Social Care, recognising the need for change, parental experience/ journeys and agreed new pathways  Banded funding  Support to parents, children and young people  Optional personal budgets  Early Support and keyworking tender (Bromley )

Programme Plan 1.Parents & Young People Involvement 2.Personal Budgets 3.Banded Funding 4.Early Support & Keyworking 5.Transition 6.Single Plan 7.Panel Processes 8.Commissioning & Delivering a Local Offer.

Transition Workstream  Developing a Local Offer Maximising Potential project Building partnerships Joint development of Day Opportunities Impact on Health services  Allocation of Resources CYP, ACS & Health budgets. Integrate commissioning across all 3 sectors Redesign back office processes & functions Review panel processes & align with ‘care pathway’ model Personal budgets – impact on market, purchaser/provider split, contracting

Young adult Secondary school Pre-school age child - nursery Starts school The Single Plan Key transition points Supporting Parents, Carers, Children and Young People

Early Support ‘Model’ Developed for Transition  Pilot Early Support and key working model for cohort of young people preparing for adulthood – commission voluntary sector (action research/pathways to services)  Develop designated and non designated key worker roles at transition  ‘Test’ the emerging Single Education, Health and Care Plan with cohort of children and young people birth to 25, from school to FE and FE to adult services

continued…  Integrated decision making mechanisms and panel processes – implications of personal budgets- explore single multi agency referral pathway at transition  Testing materials developed at National ES consortium working group with families, children and young people at transition (training, keyworking, new materials)  Explore lessons learnt from personalisation/personal budgets in adult services supporting development of children and young people services