1. NatSIP – the National Sensory Impaired Partnership
from SERSEN, through SESIP to NatSIP
HoSS 18th July 2010
Lindsey Rousseau (NatSIP facilitator)

2. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2009-2010 NATSIP
Lead Local Authority – Kent
DCSF funding for ECM outcomes work
Additional funding from voluntary and professional bodies
Strong links with national agenda and SEND initiatives
Local and regional links for national delivery
HoSS forum

3. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2009-2010 NATSIP
September 2009
The purpose of NATSIP is to improve outcomes (with reference to Every Child Matters) for children and young people with SI, narrowing gaps with their peers, through joint working in services for these children

4. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2009-2010 NATSIP
New ways of working:
National working days ; 24th September 2009, January and March 2010
NatSIP reference group
Local and regional work groups feeding in to main activities, to deliver outcomes
Development of the SI “family” of documents
Communication strategy; HoSS forum and website
Sustainability beyond 2010

5. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2010 NATSIP
Sustainability beyond 2010?
Working group on longer term strategy will report September 2010
Meanwhile “NatSiP delivers real value for money” and is already supported by; GDBA, NDCS, Ewing Foundation, Sense, VIEW, BATOD, Bristol, Cheshire East, Coventry, East Sussex, Herefordshire, Kent, Kirklees, Knightsfield School, Leeds, LB Greenwich, LB Lewisham, North Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Plymouth, RBWM, Staffordshire, Surrey, Wakefield

6. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2010 NATSIP
Ongoing working groups:
Outcomes (across the whole range of Every Child Matters)
Workforce development (including Teaching Assistants)
NatSIP strategy
Emotional resilience ?

7. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2010 NATSIP
Potential new working groups associated with outcomes for SI C&YP
Commissioning services and integrated working
Lamb Report and Integrated working
Transition and Further Education

8. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2010 NATSIP
NatSIP associated work:
Emotional wellbeing project (Guide Dogs)
Burwood Park project
NNATPIP
MSI Regional courses

9. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2010 NATSIP
The greatest assets of NatSIP are the members of the work streams who have driven forward an agenda for change in the SI field.

10. The National Sensory Impaired Partnership 2010 NATSIP
NatSIP national working day Monday 5th July
Hamilton House, London