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Implementing SEND Reforms

Action Plan

September 2014 to September 2016

Introduction: This document is a working document aiming to track our progress on the actions needed to be compliant with The Children and Families Act 2014 and the

associated SEND Code of Practice: 0 to 25 years.

The document is structured to show the government guidelines on what can and should be completed over the transitions phase. The actions are colour

coded to demonstrate the progress as follows:

Action has been completed

Action is on target to be completed by the target date and no risks associated with the action

Action is off target, but risk of missing deadline will have a low impact on the project overall

Action is off target and risk of missing the deadline will have a medium to high impact on the project overall

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Contents

Legal Duty Page

1. The Principles: S19 Wellbeing Duty Complete

2. The Local Offer

3. Information Advice and Support

4. SEN Support (Best Endeavours Duty)

5. Transitional Arrangements Planning

6. EHC Assessment and Planning

7. Personal Budgets

8. Mediation

9. Joint Commissioning

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Legal Duty 1 - The Principles: S19 Wellbeing Duty

By September 2014 After September 2014

Under S19, you must work with children, young people and parents – with individual families to improve outcomes for individual children and young people, and strategically to ensure operational arrangements and services delivery better reflects their needs. This will be an ongoing process which will deliver both cultural and procedural change.

Ref Action By Who By When Progress Status P1 Trafford Parent Forum (TPF) to become members on the SEND

Pathfinder Exec Group, and be represented at each meeting.

Cathy Rooney Jo Gibson

On-going Complete

P2 Agreement with TPF on terms of reference for the Parent VOICE forum going forward, including commitment from Trafford professionals to support these forum meetings.

Jo Gibson, and approval by Exec

Feb 2015 TPF and Trafford have a draft charter in place. TPF are now progressing in terms of engagement with parents. The new engagement meeting will be called Family Voice.

Complete

P3 Write up of Young Person Conference – Let’s Talk SEND, and presentation at relevant governance groups.

Mark Bailey Jo Gibson Hannah Gillett

September 2014

Report is available on Local offer, and been presented to SEN Steering Group, EHC Advisory Group, SLT.

Complete

P4 Let’s Talk SEND 2 – another conference for young people, building on the success of the first conference.

Mark Bailey March 2015

April 2015

Autumn Term 2015

Co-production group was pulled together earlier in the year to plan this event, however this was postponed. Manor High School have been funded to hold this event during the Autumn term 2015.

Complete

P5 Ensuring all schools are informed about, and have access to training in person centred planning, and are conducting person centred reviews that bring the voice of the child to the process

Sally Smith March 2015

September 2015

Two Training Courses are due to be held with Helen Sanderson Associate’s during September. Target audience SENCOs and EHC Co-ordinators.

Completed Sept 2015

P6 Development of the one page profile in the EHC Plan. Sally Smith Sept 14 Complete EHC template on local offer

Complete

P7 Training of PCP Facilitators Sally Smith Sept 15 See P5

Complete

P8 Preparing for Adulthood for Young people with Autism – Workshop with Jane Forrest.

Jane Forrest

Oct 2014 Complete

http://trafford.childrensservicedirectory.org.uk/kb5/trafford/fsd/service.page?record=pXRvPnNOPaw

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Ref Action By Who By When Progress Status P9 Termly newsletter – Countdown – informing key stakeholders of

progress and news about the project. Jo Gibson Sept 2014

Jan 2015 May2015

Sept15 Issue Complete – click here. January15 Issue Complete – click here May15 Issue Complete – click here

Complete

P10 Implement new structure for an Education Health and Care Assessment Team, covering 0 to 25 age range that has the skills and capacity to deliver the conversions plan as well as manage new requests for EHC assessment.

Cathy Rooney

March 2015 Progress to implement the new structure has been slow. Recruitment however is underway to fill the remaining permanent roles within the structure.

P11 Delivery of a new case management system that will replace Tribal. This will be through Liquid Logic’s Workspace Solution, and will integrate with Trafford’s existing systems, and will support the need for better information sharing.

Cathy Atherton

January

2015

September 2015

Liquid Logic now being used by all EHC coordinators. Training to staff is ongoing. Tribal no longer being used and plan in place to transfer all files to LL before Christmas 2016. Coordinator process established to transfer information and finish using ‘master files’

Complete December 2016

P12 Deliver a communication plan, which ensures the entire relevant workforce is informed about the national and local changes in place with regard to the SEN reforms.

Sally Smith Jo Gibson Sarah Butters

March 2015 Communication plan is complete and regularly reviewed by PM.

Complete

P13 Feed progress, issues and barriers to implementing the SEN reforms through the governance structure to include the EHC Advisory Board, Joint Commissioning Board and The Children’s Trust.

Cathy Rooney

On-going Complete – EHC Advisory Board meeting in place which then reports through to the relevant governance structure.

Complete

P14 Working strategically to achieve better integration between CAN, SEND and Adults.

Cathy Rooney

Mar 15 and on-going

Structure implemented including all age place based teams as part of CFW (Children, Families and Wellbeing) Transformation Programme; development of an All Age Service will have a big impact on integration.

P15 Review the Young Peoples Plan and the JSNA to ensure that SEN reforms are included as appropriate.

Cathy Rooney

Oct 14 Complete

P16 Develop the operational arrangements necessary to meet the code of practice and regulations for children in custody.

Sally Smith April 15 Complete.

http://search3.openobjects.com/mediamanager/trafford/fsd/files/countdown_issue5_vfinal.pdf

http://search3.openobjects.com/mediamanager/trafford/fsd/files/countdown_issue6_final.pdf

https://search3.openobjects.com/mediamanager/trafford/fsd/files/countdown_issue7_final.pdf

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Legal Duty 2 - The Local Offer


You must publish an initial, accessible, local offer. This offer must have been developed in partnership with children and young people with SEN or Disability and their parents, and education, health and care partners. It should cover the support available for those with and without EHC plans and from birth to 25 years, including SEN Support

You must develop and improve the local offer over time.

Ref Action By Who By When Progress Status LO1 Initial, accessible local offer published that has been developed

in partnership with key stakeholders Sarah Butters

Sept 2014 Complete

LO2 Consultation with Trafford Parents Forum to test out and add to the content of the local offer

Sarah Butters

Sept 2014

March 2015 to Sept 2015

Workshops held at the information event in March15. Complete.

LO3 Template designed for School Information report – disseminated to schools.

Sarah Butters

July 2014 Complete

LO4 Local Offer with clear links to all existing individual SEN Information Reports

Sarah Butters

Oct 2014 Complete

LO5 Feedback mechanism from Local Offer back to commissioning groups to report on gaps.

Sarah Butters

Oct 2014 Complete

LO6 Regular quarterly Audit of the Local Offer content against the Code of Practice checklist.

Sarah Butters

Apr 2015 Updated January 2015 On the agenda for April Steering Group.

Complete

LO7 Half day workshop for wide range of stakeholders to promote the use of the Local offer and as a kick start to reviewing the content.

Sarah Butters

Dec 14

March 2015

This will now be delivered during the event in March 2015, through workshops.

Complete

LO8 Quarterly report of comments and feedback on the local offer. Sarah Butters

Dec 14 Action closed and combined with LO11

L09 Development of the Local offer to be able to view advice and guidance by age and by subject – redesign of the front pages for an interim period before L10 action.

Sarah Butters

Oct 14 Advice and Guidance colour / pictures / structure of content improved.

Complete

L10 Updating of the Local Offer website to a responsive website (upgrade by the software providers), including the youth channel and to improve the look and functionality of the Local Offer

Sarah Butters

Mar 15 Local Offer website has been updated.. Complete

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Ref Action By Who By When Progress Status pages.

L11 Develop a regular review process of the Local Offer from an internal / market perspective, identifying gaps / where Trafford could enhance the offer. (This should be an analysis the comments and feedback from LO8.)

Sarah Butters Commissioning Input tbc

Sept 2015 Feedback report published on local offer Complete

L12 Plan of how the Local Offer can be expanded to include being able to view information by need, e.g. Autism, Sensory Impairment, Cerebral palsy etc.

Sarah Butters

Sept 2015 Due to complexity of producing information by need, it was agreed to instead publish information by age range

Complete

L13 Internal awareness / training communications to be put in place to increase professional usage of the advice and guidance pages.

Sarah Butters

March 2015 FIS Outreach carried out promotional activity and demonstrations at team meetings and events

Complete

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Legal Duty 3 – Information, Advice and Support


Ensure there is a source of independent information, advice and support for parents, and children and young people with SEN and disabilities, across education, health and care. This should include, but not be limited to, independent supporters.

You should continue to develop the information advice and support offer as needed

Ref Action By Who By When Progress Status

IAS1 Establish and publish our local offer of Information, Advice and Support, including how referrals will be made for new cases and transfer cases.

Geraldine

English

Liz Stanley

End Sept

14

Complete

IAS2 Work with partners to create robust and efficient ways of working for the conversions of statements to EHC plans. Establish understanding around: referrals, information sharing, role descriptions.

Geraldine

English, Liz

Stanley,

Robert

Morgan

On-going

Mar 2015

Independent Support Working Group has been

established, with terms of reference. Half termly

meetings have been arranged.

Complete

IAS3 Recruitment of Independent Supporter within the PYPPS, and working closely with VCAT to keep up to date on situation there.

Geraldine

English

Oct 15 Complete

IAS4 Training of Independent Supporters for PYPPS, including the relevant legal training, for existing case workers as well as new case worker. Also further training required around supporting young people.

Geraldine

English

Jan 15

Apr 15

Initial training complete. Complete

IAS5 Communication Plan around Independent Support Offer in Trafford, aimed at ensuring existing children and young people with statements or LDAs and their families are aware of the Independent Support Offer.

Geraldine

English

with Liz

Stanley

Nov 15 Complete – Communication plan is in place covering:

Website, Leaflets, regular input to Countdown

newsletter, social media.

Complete

IAS6 Re-development of the Parent Partnership Website to reflect the new service name and offer. Including up to date local leaflets based on national templates, and for this to link to the Trafford Local Offer web pages.

Geraldine

English

Dec 14 Website is complete Complete

IAS7 Develop links with CCG and health to ensure that there is a common understanding that the PYPPS service will also offer

Geraldine

English

Mar 15 Establishing links with Health Commissioners from

Trafford Integrated Commissioning Unit and also with

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advice around the health element of EHC plans. the Complaints Officer at Pennine.

IAS8 Market overview of services available for Young People and for Parents around advice and guidance, check against the local offer pages.

Jo Gibson Dec 14 Complete – Local Offer contains relevant information

at both a local and national level.

Complete

IAS9 For parental referral – development of a simplified version of the CAF form, so that parent/s YP can provide relevant information at referral.

Geraldine

English

Jan 15 Available on local offer Complete

IAS10

Secure the extension of the contract for the IS worker in PYPPS.

Geraldine

English

April 2015 Complete

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Legal Duty 4 – SEN Support (Best Endeavours Duty)


LAs should reassure themselves that early years settings, schools and FE colleges/ have:

Reviewed the 0-25 SEND Code of Practice to ensure their provision will meet the requirements on teaching, curriculum and wider policies.

Engaged with children and young people with SEND and their families and put in place arrangements (or structures) on how they would regularly engage and discuss progress;

Explored how they will monitor and track the progress and development of children and young people with SEN and identify and deliver any training needed by staff;

Contributed to the development of the local offer and engaging with the LA in relation to delegated funding, joint commissioning, EHC plans and implications of personal budgets

For schools: Have arrangements in place to support pupils with medical conditions

For schools: Published the annual SEN information report.

As part of their ongoing review of support for children and young people with SEN, education settings should:

Review children and young people currently on SA/ SA+ (and equivalents) and put in place SEN Support. This will include setting clear targets for progress, agreeing what support should be provided and track how it is working. School pupils and those in the early years should have transferred to SEN support by the end of the spring term 2015.

Support new children and young people using your best endeavours using SEN Support, using person centred approaches, and working with families.

Record all those who need special educational provision in the school census.

Develop partnerships with early years/ post-16 providers and adult services (including employment) to smooth transition between stages


SS1 July SENCO meetings to take place, covering SEND Code of Practice, duties for schools, SEN Information report, Medical Conditions Guidance. All mainstream primary and secondary school SENCOs to attend.

Sally Smith July 2014 Complete

SS2 Weekly monitoring of school websites to check if SEN Information Reports have been published. Appropriate support or action taken to encourage all schools to be compliant.

Sarah

Butters

Sept 14 to

Nov 14

Regular monitoring and linking to SEN Information

Reports is taking place: Overall 100%

Complete

SS3 Regular communication with settings, covering Code of Practice, collecting feedback from settings, promoting person centred planning, graduated approach, local offer, funding mechanisms and personal budgets.

Sally Smith / Fiona Hilton

Oct to Nov

15

June SENCO Forums were held and were well

attended. Trafford College regularly attend, and have

now appointed a SENCo, as a single point of contact

Complete

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Early Years settings meeting with Early Years SENAS advisor, disseminating SEND Reforms information.

SENCO Forums

Post 16

Special Heads Meetings

for SEN.

On-going updates provided. Special heads not

meeting as a group, e-bulletin used.

SS4 Final version of Graduated Approach Document, setting out what support is expected of school settings before they should apply for high needs block funding.

Sally Smith Oct 15 Complete and on the Local Offer. Heads and

SENCOs alerted as above, promotion of it included in

SENAS PDRs and joint meeting based on it between

EPS & SENAS held.

Complete

SS5 Action plan in place to ensure that education settings are supported to have arrangements in place for supporting pupils with medical conditions, including:

Communication

Review of roles of CCNT, School Nursing teams and other professionals in relation to the new guidance

Gill Wilson Mar 15 Medical Conditions guidance presented at SENCO

forums in July and Equalities Conference (October).

Medical conditions guidance being raised on Link

Adviser visits as above. Referred to in graduated

Approach below.

Complete

SS6 Ensure that there is link in the developments within early years and schools settings back to the Preparing for Adulthood group that will have responsibility for reforms in post 16 settings.

Sally Smith Mar 15

Complete

New SENCO training included this message. Will

form part of February SENCO forum focus.

Secondary Forum has been updated. Ongoing need

to keep them informed.

Complete

SS7 Support schools in the change from SA and SA+, to SEN Support – ensure that the relevant changes are made in the school census, so that SEN Support is reported by the four key areas of need.

Sally Smith Sept 15 Mechanisms in place and well established. Complete

SS8 Special Schools and Small Specialist classes will receive a monitoring visit by SENAS, including dialogue around the SEN Reforms.

Sally Smith Jan 14

Mar 15

This will now be in Spring term but SS attending SSC

heads meetings Sept & Nov.

Special School complete, SSCs by April 15. Driven

by Special School Heads.

Complete

SS9 Update multiagency partners in key developments on SEN Reforms, and feedback from settings, to ensure better

Sally Smith Ongoing Updates for teams:-Therapy Services (O.T/Physio), Complete

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understanding between professionals.

TSISS, SLT, CAN Health managers.

Complete, regular meetings have been established

with relevant managers.

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Legal Duty 5 – Transitional Arrangements Planning


You should have published a plan, produced with parents and young people, setting out how you will go about transferring young people who receive support as a result of an Learning Difficulty Assessment (LDA) and children and young with statements to EHC Plans by 1 April 2018.

You should implement your plan to ensure that: • all young people who currently receive support as a result of a LDA who request an EHC plan and need one are issued with one; • all young people who currently receive support as a result of an LDA who continue in further education or training beyond 1 September 2016 have an EHC plan where one is needed; • all children and young people with statements are transferred to EHC plans by 1 April 2018. For individuals with a statement, the transfer process must be completed within a maximum of 14 weeks.


T1 Publish a co-produced transition plan setting out intentions for transfer of statements and LDAs to EHC plans. To be published on the Local Offer.

Robert

Morgan

Fiona Hilton

Sept 2014 Complete however requires some input from parents

and young people. See action T6.

Complete.

T2 Transfer all existing statements of children moving from Nursery to Reception in academic year 2014/15 to EHC plans.

Robert

Morgan

April 2015 Needs Assessments underway and on target. Complete

T3 Transfer all existing statements of children moving from infant to a different junior school (yr 2 to 3) in the academic year 2014/15 to EHC plans.

Robert

Morgan

Feb 2015 Needs Assessments underway and on target. Complete

T4 Transfer all existing statements of children moving from primary to secondary school in the academic year 2014/15 to EHC Plans.

Robert

Morgan

Feb 2015 Needs Assessments underway and on target. Panel

Decisions are due to made on this cohort.

Complete

T5 Transfer all existing statements of young people moving from year 9 to year 10 in the academic year 2014/15 to EHC plans.

Robert

Morgan

Aug 2015 This was removed from the transfer plan, and will not

be completed this academic year.

Delayed but

complete

T6 Transfer all existing statements of young people moving from year 11 to post 16 in academic year 2014/15 to EHC plans.

Fiona Hilton Feb 2015 Needs Assessment underway, and panel dates have

been set for January for this cohort.

Complete

T7 Develop pathway for completing transfer reviews, including how Independent Supporters will be involved, for 0 to 16 years.

Robert Oct 2014 Complete – and process diagram appears on the

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Morgan Local Offer

T8 Develop pathway for completing transfer reviews, including how Independent Supporters will be involved, for existing LDA students.

Fiona Hilton Nov 2014 In progress

T9 All existing statements are transferred to EHC Plans Robert Morgan

April 2018 Progress stalled for year 11’s in 2015-2016 due to

new staffing and change of manager. Process was

unsecure and caused difficulties during high volume

periods. New process introduced and all staff

trained. Staff reshaped to meet demands and create

4 smaller areas and 3 specific areas in order to make

work load more manageable

On target

T10 All existing LDAs are transferred to EHC Plans Fiona Hilton JN

April 2016 Changes to expected dates made by DfE to

December 2016, further delays being communicated

to EFA and providers

On target

T11 Work with parents and young people to finalise and agree the Transfer plan.

Jo Gibson Dec 2014 Complete

(see new

action T13)

T12 Clear communication plan in place for informing parents of the transition process for both those in schools and post 16.

Robert Morgan Fiona Hilton

March 2015 Plan is being developed; will be in conjunction with

TPF.

Complete

T13

Work with parents to review the transfer plan for 2015/16 academic year based on learning and feedback from all key stakeholders.

Robert Morgan Jo Gibson

June 2015 EHC local offer section to be updated to make more

user friendly for parents and schools

Complete

October

2016

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Legal Duty 6 – EHC Assessment Duty and Planning


By September you must have a co-ordinated education health and care assessment process in place which can be used to issue a final EHC plans within a maximum of 20 weeks, where children and young people need one. There should be an EHC Plan template in place which should ideally have been tested out with children and young people with SEN and their parents.

You must work with new entrants to the system to assess and issue EHC plans within 20 weeks where one is needed. You should work with those with existing statements and LDA begin transition to EHC plans in stages (page 11 in document).

Ref Actions By Who By When Progress Status

EHC1

Final pathway for completing EHC plans for new entrants completed for:

Early Years (0 to 5 yrs)

Schools (5 to 16 yrs)

Post 16 (16 to 25 yrs)

Sally Smith

/ Fiona

Hilton

Sept 2014

Sept 2014

Oct 2014

Mar 2015

Pathway completed for schools.

For Early years – work in progress incorporating

health too.

Further work to incorporate Social Care process and

also CAMHS.

Timeline extended to incorporate fine tuning of

pathways.

Further work required on process and also to link up

with workspace and panels work.

Complete

EHC2

All staff with responsibilities for carry out EHC Assessments are fully trained on the process and the plan.

Jude Nash Ongoing Staff guides In process of being written. Expected

Nov 2016 -JN

EHC3

Multi-agency panels established that can decide: to carry out a EHC assessment; to create and EHC Plan; to approve resourcing and spending plans. Including quality assurance, Across all age groups: Early Years, School, Post 16

Jo Gibson Sally Smith Fiona Hilton

Dec 14

Apr 15

Jan 16

Workshops have been held, however it has been

decided that this piece of work should be postponed

whilst there is a focus on workspace development

and training. To be reviewed again during the

Autumn term, with implementation from January 16

Complete

EHC4

SEND Policy written and approved through public consultation and by Councillors by January 2015.

Sally Smith Jan 2015

Feb 2015

Complete

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EHC5

Improve the current social care assessment process as part of the overall EHC Plan process, i.e. establish process where there is more than a check on whether a child is known to social care, to mirror the process that takes place in health.

Sally Smith Jan 2015 Initial meeting has been held and discussions

regarding this – agreement in principle, however SC

to consider the process and work required.

Incorporated into the panels work – gaining buy in to

do this and ensuring process is robust.

EHC6

Clear direction and training for EHC Caseworkers on the Personal Budgets offer, and how to have this conversation with parents within the EHC process.

Sally Smith Oct 2014 Complete

EHC7

Development of outcomes focussed advice forms, ensuring a smoother transfer of advice gathered, to incorporating this advice in the final EHC plan.

Sally Smith Nov 2014 Complete

EHC8

Establish a process where advice is put straight into the case management system and shared with consent amongst relevant professionals, building on existing CAF referral process and using the liquid logic workspace.

Sally Smith Sept 2015 Advice forms developed within LL

EHC9

Have a work force development plan in place and carry out the actions on this plan

Sally Smith On-going to

April 2018

Initial workforce development plan has been drafted.

Completed by JG July 2015

EHC10

Development of the process for annual reviews, including paperwork, meetings, outcomes – with regard to the SEND Code of Practice

Sally Smith / Jude Nash

Sept 2015

Autumn

Term 2016

New annual review forms written and ready to be released. SENCO guides available to accompany forms. Guidance notes for meetings given to EHC coordinators and schools

What to expect and when guides written and

available on local offer

Complete

EHC11

Clear process in place for ceasing plans, including sharing of information with relevant people once the EHC plan has ceased (e.g. post 16 providers, Higher Education)

Sally Smith Fiona Hilton

tbc

EHC12

EHC Process to be fully integrated with the Transition process, and the requirements of the Care Act

Fiona Hilton Mike Banner

tbc

EHC Clear process around reviews, including consideration of all other potential reviews that a CYP may be having – process

tbc tbc

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13 needs to work towards the principle of one annual review across Education, Health and Social care

EHC14

Preparing for my Assessment Booklet – feedback suggests that this requires updating and potentially differentiating based on age or phase of education.

Robert Morgan Justine Bailey Liz Stanley

April 2015 New booklets and forms being updated and used Complete

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Legal Duty 7 – Personal Budgets


You must have a clear policy in place setting out the scope of the personal budget offer to families in September, and should be ready to respond to requests for personal budgets from families that have been assessed as needing an EHC plan.

You should use joint commissioning arrangements and the local offer to deliver a year-on-year increase in the scope and availability of personal budgets.


PB1 Publish updated Policy about Personalisation on the Local Offer covering Social Care, and introducing SEND Reforms.

Elaina

Quesada

Sept 2014 Complete

PB2 Update and publish the Parent guide for Personalisation. Elaina Quesada

Sept 2014 Complete

PB3 Review of Personalisation policy, working towards an integrated policy that includes personalisation across education, health and social care.

Elaina

Quesada

April 2015 Standalone draft policy for Health personal

budgets

As a result of the Short Breaks work, there is an

intention to carry out further work around personal

budgets. We are also intending to work closely with

the CCG in having a common approach to

personalisation, including looking at the brokerage

offer.

Previous work that has taken place on Personal

Budgets Policy will also be re-visited to establish

an up to date overview of the current position, and

pull they relevant policies together referenced in

one document..

PB4 Work with parents to update the parent’s guide to personal budgets, that will be based on the new integrated policy in action PB3

Elaina

Quesada

June 2015

Jan 16

This work is on hold, as there are further changes

being considered around short breaks.

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PB5 Clear decision around where personal budgets are discussed in the EHC process and clarity for workforce in the local offer and mechanisms for securing a personal budget.

Sally Smith December

2014

Complete

PB6 Visioning Event – for senior leaders and strategic management, on the future of personalisation, in conjunction with In Control.

Elaina Quesada Jo Gibson

Sept 2014 discussion paper to be written setting out vision

and next steps – see action PB10

Complete

PB5 Trialling of PHB for Continuing Health Care, including designing process, allocating resource and linking with Education and Social Care assessment and planning processes. Managed through the Personalisation Implementation group, with regular feedback on lessons learned.

Merry, Claire Jackson

Sept 2014 established process Complete

PB6 Working towards Integration – testing the integrated RIQ in Education and Social Care. And working through cases to understand CHC process and how this fits together. Also consideration of post 16.

Ric Johnson Sally Smith Fiona Hilton

Sept 15

Jan 16

This development on hold due to transformation

projects around All Age RAS, strategic direction

required.

PB7 Active engagement with Educational providers (including colleges) in developing the potential for offering personal budgets for Education provision in the future – in conjunction with In Control.

PB8 Development of Infrastructure to support personal budgets for EHC cases, in particular the administration and monitoring of personal budgets that have been awarded.

Ongoing Long term goal, and will come into play as volume

of personal budgets increases.

PB9 Development of a spectrum of choice for the management of PB

funds, i.e. Direct Payment, Third Party or Notional

Sept 2014 Complete

PB10 Discussion paper to be written based on visioning event (PB6),

setting out vision, barriers to achieving the vision, and next steps

– this to be presented at relevant management meetings.

Jo Gibson / Elaina Quesada

Oct 2015 Discussion paper drafted, however this action no

longer valid given developments of Transformation

Projects.

PB11 Working together for Change event – looking at gathering input

and feedback from wider range of stakeholders including young

people and parents on how their personal budget experience

has been to date.

Kaye Hadfield

Nov 2014 This event has taken place. Positive feedback and

specific action plan developed as a result of the

event.

Complete.

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PB12 Mapping processes to increase common understanding across

Education Health and Social Care on processes for assessment

and planning, and identifying how there can be better joining up

to promote a more integrated approach to personal budgets.

Elaina, Merry, Sally, Ric

Jan 2015 Complete

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Legal Duty 8 – Mediation


You must have commissioned access to high quality mediation for those who need it.

You must make mediation available for those who want it, issuing a certificate for those who want to go straight to Tribunal.


M1 Establish the commissioning approach to securing mediation provision.

Cathy

Rooney

Sep 2014 Decision made to go out to tender for a mini

framework of providers where mediation can be

spot purchased as required.

Complete

M2 Carry out commissioning of mediation. Elaina

Quesada

Nov 2014

Jan 2015

Commissioning Process underway and on target.

Complete

M3 Clearly define existing tribunal arrangements which will still be available for those with a statement of special educational needs.

Cathy Rooney Sally Smith

Oct 2015 Complete

M4 Clearly define the options for disagreement resolution, mediation and tribunal for those that are new to the system on the Local Offer

Cathy Rooney Geraldine English

Oct 2015 Complete

M5 Update existing pathway diagrams to ensure that there is a clear and transparent process in place for when and how parents can appeal against decisions for Education, health and social care.

Cathy Rooney Sally Smith

Oct 2015 Clear information available on the Local offer.

Pathways still require updating.

Complete

M6 Development of a longer term solution for mediation – working with the NW to develop a framework.

Cathy Rooney Jo Gibson

Mar 2015 Currently no appetite for a NW framework, however will be working with Stockport and Rochdale through procurement when current contract expires. Continue to be involved in NW dialogue through NW ADCS Health and SEND Subgroup.

Complete.

M7 (New)

Consider options for provision of Disagreement Resolution Service and ensure that this is put in place alongside the mediation contract. Interim position will be to spot purchase DRS as required.

Elaina Quesada

Mar 2015 Complete

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Legal Duty 9 – Joint Commissioning


LAs and CCGs must work together with develop the systems set out above.

Over time, you must use those relationships to review, plan and jointly commission services.


JC1 Establish the EHC Advisory Forum, ensuring a robust set of governance arrangements with progress being reported through to the Children’s Trust Board and Joint Commissioning Management Board.

John

Pearce

Sept 2014 Advisory forum has had the first meeting, where

terms of reference were discussed and an action

plan.

Complete

JC2 Commissioning of Designated Medical Officer (DMO) Jill Colbert Nov 14

Jan 15

Discussions on the business case are underway

and a decision will be made in January 2015.

Interim arrangements are in place.

JC3 Updated Section 75 agreement in place that ensures that services are jointly commissioned with the CCG to best meet the needs of children and young people in Trafford.

Jill Colbert Sept 14 Complete for

2014 to 2017.

JC4 Working towards establishing an all age disability service (looking at covering joint commissioning requirements . transition to adults services)

Sep 15

JC5 Commissioning cycle completed for post 16 non-school placements

Fiona

Hilton

June 15 Complete

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