A presentation about the Surrey Pathfinder Local Offer development for the Surrey SE7 SEN reforms.

1. Presentation to Family Voice
Conference
Tuesday 26th March 2013
The Local Offer

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Indicative draft: The (0-25) Special
Educational Needs Code of Practice
Work in progress
Subsequent draft for formal consultation
later in 2013
Will develop through 20 pathfinders

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Chapter 4: The Local Offer
What is the Local Offer?
“LAs must publish, in one place, information about
provision they expect to be available in their area for
children and young people from 0-25 who have SEN”

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2 key purposes
• To provide clear, comprehensive and
accessible information about the support and
opportunities available
• To make provision more responsive to local
needs and aspirations by directly involving
children & young people with SEN, parents and
carers, and service providers in its development
and review

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Not just a directory
The Local Offer should be:
• Engaging
• Accessible
• Transparent and comprehensive
It will follow a common framework which all Local
Authorities must develop, publish and review

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What must be included?
• Education, health and care provision
• Arrangements for identifying and assessing children
and young people’s SEN
• Other education provision
• Training provision including apprenticeships
• Travel arrangements to/from early years settings,
schools and Post 16 providers
• Support to help children and young people’s transitions
between phases and for adulthood
• Sources of information, advice and support about SEN
in the area
• Arrangements for making complaints, mediation and
rights of appeal to the Tribunal

7. • A web based resource
• Information for those without access to the
web
• Accessible to different groups including
those with SEN and disability
How should the Local Offer
be published?

8. Who should be consulted?
“Co-production” with children, young people and
parents:
• planning the content
• deciding how to publish
• providing feedback on services

9. Links to joint commissioning,
co-operation and health and social care
Joint commissioning arrangements informed by:
• Needs identified via Health and Wellbeing Boards
• Agreed priorities of the Joint Health and Wellbeing
Strategy
Each Clinical Commissioning Group will determine what
services must be provided to meet the reasonable health
needs for the children and young people for whom they
are responsible
The LA must ensure co-operation

10. Where are we in Surrey?
• Highly motivated Local Offer working group
• Good representation across services and age range
• Co-production from the start with Parent Partnership
& Family Voice
• Engagement with young people
• Testing out principles and developing framework
from SE7 Steering Group
• Reps from schools and colleges have trialled
questions for their Local Offers
• Additional resources agreed for web based offer and
ICT Manager support

11. The SE7 Local Offer Framework Principles
Factual
Sustainable
and sustained
Transparency
Starts with the
widely available
Holistic
Accessible
Empowering
Co-produced

12. Next steps: Phase 2
• Collecting information from all key stakeholders
• Developing the web design and content
• Developing a communication strategy for all
stakeholders
• Setting up Quality Assurance and use of the Multi
agency toolkit produced by Early Support
A huge amount of work but exciting!