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SEND Single Point of Contact

for Parents, Carers, Young People

and Professionals

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Contents

Introduction: Page Number

What is the Single Point of Contact? 3

How does it work?

Who is it for?

What is the contact number?

What is the Local Offer?

Single Point of Contact Chart 5

Local Offer Leaflet 6

Other key information 7

Background and context re the SEND Reforms 7

SEN Support– Graduated Response to Meeting Needs 8

SEN Support Plans 8

EHC Assessment & Education Health & Care Plans 9

Description of Service & Contact Numbers 10

Appendix 1 – EHC Assessment Process 25

Appendix 2 - Glossary – Abbreviations 26

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Introduction

This document provides information regarding the Single Point of Contact, the Local Offer and a summary of how the needs of children and young people in Middlesbrough are identified and met and information on the current network of support available across education, health and care. To support parents, carers, young people and professionals the local area has developed a “Single Point of Contact” approach which is intended to offer parents, settings and professionals with a convenient way to navigate systems and processes through which they can raise queries about a range of issues relating to SEND and receive advice on appropriate routes which can be taken to address any concerns or queries. Information is also available on the Local Offer. The website address for this is www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/localoffer What is the Single Point of Contact? It is intended to offer a convenient way to navigate systems and processes through which people can raise queries about a range of issues relating to SEND and receive advice on appropriate routes which can be taken to address any concerns or queries. This will not deal directly with “referrals” to services but will help signpost to appropriate services.

How does it work? It is a telephone line and email contact point and will be managed by SEN Assessment team 0-25. Who is it for? Parents, settings and professionals What is the contact number and email address? Tel. 01642 201831 Email: [email protected]

What is the Local Offer? The Local Offer is part of Middlesbrough’s online directory for Children, Young People and families in Middlesbrough. It brings together helpful and useful information into one easily searchable website and is accessible through smart phones and tablets.

It contains a wide range of information and services to support children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities. These include public services that are available within:

Education: nurseries, schools and colleges Health: GPs, School Nurses, Pediatricians and Therapists Social Care: short breaks, respite services and disability services

http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/localoffer

mailto:[email protected]

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Special support services: Educational Psychologists, Autism Team, Visual Impairment Service, Hearing Impaired and Deaf Service and Early Years/Portage Teams.

It should also enable parents, carers, young people and professionals to find out what support and services are available in the voluntary and private sectors, for example, from charities and disability groups, nurseries, youth clubs, to opportunities for children and young people who have additional needs to engage in a broad range of leisure activities.

Additional information will be available for young adults. Our Local Offer is intended to help parents, carers and young people make informed choices about things that are important to them such as: where to live; transport; social activities; work and training; and making the transition to adulthood.

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Single Point of Contact (SPOC) will provide info on:

SPOC

Education Health

Social Care

Other Services

Local Offer

SEN Assessment Team 0-25

Early Years Specialist Support Service

Hearing Impaired Service

Childrens Service for Visually Impaired

Educational Psychology

Access to Education Service

Virtual School for Looked After Children

Education Outreach Services

Speech & Language Therapy

Physiotherapy / Occupational

Therapy

CAMHs

Adult Mental Health Services

Learning Disability CAMHs

Adult Mental Health with Learning

Disabilities

Paediatric services at James Cook

Hospital

Health Visitor/ School Nurse/GP

Designated Clinical and Medical

Officer

Family Partnership Team

Family Team

School Readiness

Work Readiness

South Tees Youth Offending Service

First Contact

Children with Disabilities Team

Children Social Care

Transitions Team

Adult Social Care

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Local Offer Leaflet

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OTHER KEY INFORMATION Background to the SEND Reforms: In September 2014 new reforms were introduced to provide an improved system of identification and support for children and young people aged 0-25 e.g. The Children and Families Act 2014, The Special Educational Needs and Disability [SEND] Code of Practice 0-25 years [2014 with amendments in 2015] and associated regulations for SEN and Disability. Professionals working across social care and health as well as education, should have a high level of awareness of the Code of Practice (CoP) and use it as an ongoing source for reference, to assist with the understanding of key SEND principles. At the heart of the SEND reforms is a different way of engaging with children/young people and their parents/carers which is a person centred approach which identifies aspirational and achievable outcomes for individuals with SEN. It is essential that all professionals across education health and care have a good working knowledge of the SEND reforms.

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SEN Support – Graduated Response to Meeting Needs A key part of this is how settings have provided effective SEN Support using an Assess, Plan, Do, Review cycle to demonstrate the graduated response to identified special educational needs. The graduated response can be explained in the following diagram:

SEN Support Plans For some children and young people who have SEND they may need additional interventions and support which can be set out in a non-statutory SEN Support Plan. This document sets out the identified needs of the child/young person, the views of the child/young person, the provision required and identifies positive outcomes as well as who will provide the support and when the SEN Support Plan will be reviewed.

The special educational needs concerned will be one or more from: Communication and interaction; Cognition & learning Social, emotional and mental health Physical and/or sensory.

The SEN Support Plan will also identify health and care needs. It is important that settings make every effort to liaise with colleagues in the Health service and social care teams to establish whether appropriate health and care services are involved. For health this can be done by the settings contacting relevant SEND Health Contacts. Occasionally there may be health involvement outside of these contacts or a necessity to escalate an unresolved issue. Where this is the case, the SEN Team will liaise with the Designated Medical Officer (DMO) or Designated Clinical Officer (DCO) for advice on next steps.

As part of the graduated response, it is expected that settings will work with education, health and care colleagues to put in place interventions/strategies to support a child/young person based upon advice of all professionals. Settings should also consider whether an Early Help Assessment would identify and support needs.

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It is important to note that most children young people with SEND can have their needs met in mainstream settings at the SEN Support stage through resources already available to the setting. This includes the opportunity for settings to request Inclusion Fund/High Needs Funding from the local authority providing the setting produces evidence of existing spending upon the additional needs concerned and without the need for an Education Health & Care Plan (EHCP). SEN Support Plans will help educational settings to demonstrate their best practice and their best use of resources. By using the SEN Support Plan as the method of showing a graduated response to identified needs in the educational setting, the link between additional support and achieved outcomes will, over time, provide robust educational evidence to support any request for an EHC assessment.

Education Health & Care Assessments – Education Health & Care Plans Where there are ongoing concerns about a child/young person’s progress despite appropriate interventions/strategies being put in place and where there is a concern that the child/young person may need additional resources than those normally provided by mainstream educational provision, a Referral Planning Meeting may need to be arranged. In most cases, this will be initiated by an educational setting but other professionals may also arrange this meeting. Parents/carers may refer directly to the local authority to request an EHC assessment (20 week statutory EHC assessment process). At any point, the Special Educational Needs & Disability Information, Advice & Support Service (SENDIASS) may be contacted and the help of an Independent Supporter for the family may be arranged. Following EHC assessment the local authority may decide to issue an Education Health & Care Plan, a statutory document which identifies needs outcomes and provision to help meet the outcomes. This is reviewed every year and can be ceased when the child/young person has met their identified and realistic outcomes.

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Single Point of Contact

Description of Service

Tel no.

Education Based Services

SEND Single Point of Contact Line

SEN Assessment team 0-25 provides a telephone line and email contact point for parents, settings and professionals. This is intended to offer a “Single Point of Contact” approach and a convenient way to navigate systems and processes through which people can raise queries about a range of issues relating to SEND and receive advice on appropriate routes which can be taken to address any concerns or queries. This will not deal directly with “referrals” to services but will help signpost to appropriate services. Email: [email protected]

01642 201831

Local Offer Services working in the Local Area are responsible for maintaining a “Local Offer” which is a new way of giving children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and their parents or carers information about what activities and support is available in the local area. To find out more about Middlesbrough’s Local Offer: www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/localoffer Email: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/LocalOfferMiddlesbrough

01642 727598

SEN Assessment Team 0-25

SEN Assessment Team 0-25 maintains a “Duty Officer” system in which a SEN Case Officer is available to receive calls from parents, settings and professionals to discuss any queries or concerns about SEN. If the query relates to a child/young person with an EHCP, whose EHC needs are being assessed/who may be being considered for EHC assessment, an annual review of EHHCP, placement in a specialist setting or a request for high needs funding at either EHCP or SEN Support stage, the officer will deal with the queries as appropriate. It is important to note that if the query is not directly related to the core role of the SEN Assessment team, the caller

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will be directed to the appropriate service as SEND is a shared responsibility between education, health and care professionals working in the Local Area. Email [email protected]

Early Years Specialist Support Service

The EYSSS works with families and professionals in education, health and care to ensure early identification of children’s individual complex needs by exploring and assessing specialist strategies, resources and equipment to help us to meet children’s individual needs The service helps set realistic and relevant targets, including strategies, resources and equipment to help children to achieve their full potential. There is support for EY settings to work towards mutually agreed outcomes to achieve effective inclusion wherever possible and to identify appropriate specialist provision where necessary.

Email: [email protected]

01642 854288

Hearing Impaired Service

The Hearing Impaired Service is a team of Specialist Teachers of the Deaf who are trained in working with children who have an educationally significant hearing loss. There is support for children and young people aged 0 to 25 years. Support is offered to families of pre-school children at home and in nurseries and then in their educational setting. Regular Events are organised so that parents and children can meet up.

The Service accepts referrals from ENT consultants and paediatric audiologists. Parents and schools that have concerns about a child's hearing are advised that the child should visit their GP to discuss a referral to ENT/Audiology. The Service is able to provide informal advice to parents and schools at this stage.


01642 354353

Childrens Service for Visually Impaired

Qualified teachers of the visually impaired work peripatetically with children and young people from 0 – 25 supporting them both in the home, in school and with social events outside of school to ensure they achieve their full potential. Working together with other professionals and the family

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involved with the young person the aim is to improve their access to learning and their involvement in the wider community. There is an open referral system, which means that parents, health visitors and teachers can suggest a child is visited by a QTVI to assess if they have any visual difficulties. Nationally agreed criteria are used to determine the level of support a child or young person will need. There are social groups for primary age and for secondary aged youngsters, each group has a say in the activities they would like to be involved in and so far it has included Karaoke to Climbing Walls. There is also a Parent Support Group that meets once a fortnight aimed at giving the youngsters involved a range of experiences and the opportunity for parents to network. Email: [email protected]

Educational Psychology

Educational Psychologists (EPs) are professionally trained applied psychologists. They have followed an extensive training route over at least 6 years.

All EPs work in a range of educational settings, with a range of young people with differing needs. EP’s knowledge of psychology, child development and change processes helps them to support schools, parents, and other professionals to best meet the needs of children and young people.

EPs work largely in schools, community and home settings and not in clinics or hospitals as is the case with some other areas of Psychology. EPs only work directly with children when this is agreed at a consultation meeting. When EPs work directly with children, they may want to elicit their views of their strengths and the areas where they feel they need help. When work is prioritised for individual pupils, the role and work of an EP would be discussed with you and your consent sought for their involvement

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before any meetings take place. After any direct work, EPs always discuss the work with staff and parents. EPs’ work at this level is agreed in negotiation with schools via the school’s Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO). EPs also conduct other types of work for the local authority. Examples include conducting research, therapeutic interventions, statutory and strategic development work, professional supervision, training, and capacity building work for LA and school staff.

Access to Education Service

The Access to Education Service includes teams of officers who provide advice and support on a range of issues including:

Alternative Provision – including advice on strategies and provision to help avoid exclusion and provision for excluded pupils

Exclusions - Advice on the process of exclusion from school

Children Missing Education – Point of contact for advice on the identification and tracking of children missing education or at risk of being missing education

Admissions and school transfers – considering preferences from parents/carers and offers of school places for children and young people of statutory school age, including in year school transfers

Attendance - The Education Welfare Service has a duty on behalf of Middlesbrough Council to ensure that parents/carers ensure their children attend school regularly including use the full range of statutory powers, including the issuing of Penalty Notices and court action, to ensure that this happens.

Elective Home Education – The team offer advice on the process and liaise with settings, other professionals and parents. Parents must notify the child’s current school of their decision to educate their child at home in writing, the school will then notify the LA. When the LA is informed that a parent wishes to educate their child at home they will contact the parent and arrange a meeting

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to ensure that their child is receiving a full time, efficient education suitable to their age, ability and aptitude.

Virtual School for Looked After Children

The service works across all key stages, in mainstream schools, Pupil Referral Units, children's homes, and foster homes that have LAC needing extra support. Using a multi-agency approach, staff work closely with social workers, foster parents, designated teachers, the education psychology service and other relevant agencies.

The virtual school for looked after children:

1. Provides advocacy, support and advice on educational issues relating to LAC

2. Maintains of the education database, including information on attendance and attainment

3. Offers training on, and dissemination of information about, the educational needs of LAC

4. Monitors the effectiveness of Personal Education Plans (PEPS) 5. Provides advocacy support for exclusions, admissions, appeals and

child care reviews 6. Provides additional education packages to support individual need 7. Monitors the academic progress of all LAC

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Education Outreach Services

Beverley School (Autism) In order to support mainstream educational settings to make appropriate provision at SEN Support stage, Beverley School offers advice on a range of strategies appropriate for children and young people with an autism diagnosis. This may be provided at a charge to the setting‘s notional SEN budget.

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Holmwood School (Social Emotional and Mental Health needs) In order to support mainstream educational settings to make appropriate provision at SEN Support stage, Holmwood School offers advice on a range of strategies appropriate for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs. This may be provided at a charge to the setting‘s notional SEN budget.

01642 819157

Priory Woods School (Severe Learning/Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties) In order to support mainstream educational settings to make appropriate provision at SEN Support stage, Priory Woods School offers advice on a range of strategies appropriate for children and young people with Severe Learning/Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. This may be provided at a charge to the setting‘s notional SEN budget.

01642 770540

Home and Hospital Teaching Service (Services for children with illness, health needs including anxiety and mental health needs The service considers referrals from health professionals and educational settings for situations in which a child/young person may be unable to attend school due to illness (physical or mental health needs). This may be provided at a charge to the setting‘s notional SEN budget.

01642 213799

Overfields Speech & Language Unit This Unit is based at a Redcar & Cleveland setting but offers support for children across both Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland areas. The service considers referrals from settings for the following levels of provision at SEN Support stage without the need for EHCP on a dual registration basis:

Outreach – advice on strategies for use in home school setting

Part time placement (half of the week)

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Health Based Services

Speech & Language Therapy

Children’s Service or Adults Speech & Language Therapy referrals are considered and levels of provision offered on the basis of identified needs subject to eligibility and transition phases as identified below: Patients with a Learning Disability aged 0-19yrs (transition to TEWV) Patients aged 0-16yrs (transition to adults but a gap 16-18) Patients with Dysphagia aged 0-19yrs (transition to TEWV) Patients with Augmentative and Alternative Communication aged 0-25yrs Email: [email protected]

Physiotherapy / Occupational Therapy

Children’s Service or Adults Therapy referrals are considered and levels of provision offered on the basis of identified needs subject to eligibility and transition phases as identified below: Patients aged 5-16yrs requiring occupational therapy Patients aged 0-5yrs requiring occupational therapy Patients aged 0-16yrs requiring physiotherapy Patients aged 0-19yrs with a Learning Disability requiring physiotherapy Patients aged 16-25yrs for existing conditions Email: [email protected]

CAMHs Self-referral to the service is accepted. Referrals are also considered from professionals and families and levels of provision offered on the basis of

Full-time placement (all week except Friday afternoons when child attends the “home” school

Referrals from settings are considered by Panel meetings at which provision is offered on basis of needs identified. At present, places are funded by Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland Councils.

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identified needs subject to eligibility and transition phases as identified below: 0-18yrs transition to adult Mental Health or adult Learning Disability services Email: [email protected]

Adult Mental Health Services

Referrals are accepted via GPs.

Learning Disability CAMHs

Referrals are considered from professionals and levels of provision offered on the basis of identified needs subject to eligibility and transition phases as identified below: 0-18yrs transition to adult Mental Health or adult Learning Disability services Email: [email protected]

Adult Mental Health with Learning Disabilities

Referrals are accepted via GPs.

Paediatric services at James Cook Hospital

Referrals are considered from professionals and levels of provision is offered on the basis of identified needs subject to eligibility and transition phases as identified below: 19yrs for patients with a Learning Disability 17yrs for patients without a Learning Disability

Health Visitor/ School Nurse/ GP

Referrals are considered from professionals and levels of provision offered on the basis of identified needs subject to eligibility and transition phases as identified below:



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Children aged 0-5yrs – please contact health visiting service Children aged 5–19yrs – please contact the school nursing service Children aged 5-25yrs with SEND please contact the school nursing service Children over the age 16yrs can also contact their GP Email: [email protected]

DCO/DMO The DMO and DCO have oversight across all health professionals delivering healthcare to individual disabled children, young people and those with special educational needs. They have the responsibility of coordination, strategic contribution and clinical advice on behalf of South Tees CCG. The DMO and DCO play key roles in terms of implementing the SEND reforms and support joined up working between health and local authorities. The DMO and DCO provide a point of contact for local authorities, schools and colleges where an issue is not able to be resolved directly with the individual health services for children and young people who may have SEN or disabilities. The DCO holds clinics and attends coffee mornings along with the Local Authority for children, young people and families to drop in and discuss any issues they have. Email: [email protected]


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SOCIAL CARE BASED SERVICES

First Contact

First Contact is a multi-agency team consisting of Children’s Social Care, Police, Health, Education and a Domestic Abuse and Early Help Practitioner, which provides a single point of contact for consultation and advice, referrals and access to Children's Services within Middlesbrough. Plans are currently underway for First Contact to become part of a South Tees MACH (multi-agency children’s hub) in partnership with Redcar Children’s Services. It is anticipated that this will ‘go live’ on 1 June 2019. The MACH will provide an integrated single point of access for Children’s Services which will include Early Help and Safeguarding across South Tees. With its partners it will provide multi professional triage to improve intelligence sharing, risk assessment and decision making for vulnerable children and their families, to ensure that they get access to the right early help and specialist support at the right time. Email: [email protected] (current email)

[email protected] (with effect from 1 March 2019)

01642 726004 (subject to change on 1 June)

Children with Disabilities Team

The Children with Disabilities Team and the Transitions Team currently work with around 300 children with a disability. These children will have an allocated social worker and will be subject to annual assessments and plans to ensure that any service provision remains appropriate and is delivering on the outcomes set. These outcomes will be set within a Child in Need Plan, and it is usually this service provision and outcomes that are carried forward into a child’s Education, Health and Care Plan.

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Child in Need reviews are carried out at a minimum of 6 monthly intervals to ensure that the services delivered are contributing to the set outcomes, and also to any wider outcomes set within the EHC Plan. Services packages are delivered in a number of ways including in-house services, commissioned services and direct payments. The Direct Application scheme supports a further 100 children with a short break without the need for a social work assessment. Families utilising this scheme can have a support package of up to £2,000 per year with a supporting letter from a professional that knows the child well. There are a wider number of children with disabilities within the borough that are not open to the Children with Disabilities Team. The access routes for assessment, and the eligibility criteria for social work and short breaks, are widely available on the council’s website and within the local offer in the event that any of these families wish to access the support. Email: : [email protected]

Children’s Social Care

Child in Need and Child Protection Teams There are 6 child in need and child protection teams within the Middlesbrough area, the teams work with all children who are subject to a child protection or child in need plan where there is an identified safeguarding need. The teams work within the court and child protection arena and also work with Private Fostering cases. They receive their work from the Middlesbrough safeguarding assessment teams who assess whether there is an on-going safeguarding need. The CIN and CP teams are responsible for implementing the conclusions and recommendations of the assessment and implementing a plan of intervention with the family with the aim of reducing the risk to the child. Email: [email protected]

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Transitions Team

Middlesbroughs Transitions Team provide support to young people with disabilities from the age of 14 years until the age of 25. They support the young person when their overall need links to their transition through adolescence to adulthood and where they are likely to require services, advice and/ or support due to the impact of their disability.

01642 303902

Adult Social Care

Adults Social Care services provide support for older people, people with mental health problems, learning or physical disabilities, those with alcohol and substance misuse problems, the homeless, prevention of abuse or neglect, domestic abuse and associated support for families and carers.


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OTHER COUNCIL SERVICES

Family Partnership Team

The Family Partnership Team is a family support service. They make sure that families are getting the right support and that the right services are involved. They provide information, advice and guidance to families and services and help them to work together.

They also have strong working relationships with other local community services, the Voluntary Sector, Church Sector and Adult Services. This is to make sure that families are quickly and effectively helped by the right service.


Contact number via Typetalk to minicom: 18002 01642 728232

Family Team

Families who agree to Early Help could be allocated to the Family Team, or to another partner agency, where a Lead Practitioner will be allocated. The Lead Practitioner will work with the family, and other agencies, to assess the family’s needs and agree the My Family Plan.

The Family Team use a collaborative approach, working alongside the family and other agencies. The staff use a variety of interventions and tools to engage with the family in order to identify, assess, analyze and resolve the issues identified.

The Lead Practitioner will have contact with the family on a regular basis and hold family review meetings with the family and other partners involved. The family will close to the Family Team once the interventions have been completed and needs have been met.

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School Readiness

The School Readiness team works in a number of ways with families who have children aged 0-5 years, including:

helping children become ready for nursery and primary school accessing good quality childcare, including free early education for

two, three and four year olds, information can be found via the Family Information Service/Family Service Directory. Information on SEND and the Local offer is also available on this page

supporting childcare settings in terms of the quality and standard of their settings. Staff work closely with settings on their safeguarding, policies and procedures and we have two qualified teachers who work with settings to increase their Ofsted rating

There are eight children’s centres in Middlesbrough, further information on activities/ sessions/ timetables and contact details can be found via the Family Service Directory.


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Work Readiness

The Work Readiness Team are responsible for tracking and following up all young people aged 16-18 years, and up to 25 years if they have special educational needs or are a care leaver, to record their current post 16 destination. The team offers impartial careers information, advice and guidance as well as personalised support to young people to help move young people into education, employment and training opportunities. The team aims to reduce the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) in Middlesbrough.


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South Tees Youth

South Tees Youth Offending Service is a multi-agency partnership, serving the Local Authority areas of Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland. The Youth Offending Service (YOS) undertakes the

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Offending Service

supervision of young people between the ages of 10 and 17 years who are subject of court orders and police-referred out-of-court disposals.



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The EHC process can be summarised on the flowchart which follows:

Appendix 1

EDUCATION - HEALTH - CARE PLAN ASSESSMENT PATHWAY

Referral Planning Meeting (RPM)

Chair of RPM to ensure that other professionals involved with the child/young person are invited to the meeting (for health, email SEND health contacts). Discussion with relevant professionals and parents to establish

needs, share information available and discuss any additional information required. Consideration to be given to an early help assessment if not already undertaken. Parents and child/young person’s views also requested

and considered at this meeting. Chair to book a Summary Assessment Meeting (12 weeks away) – contact SEN Team.

Outcome: to refer for assessment or not (Chair to notify all involved)

YES NO

No – request declined (Chair of RPM to notify all professionals involved)

LA confirms decision with chair of RPM and parent/carer/young person and explains right

to appeal – offers meeting to discuss how needs will be met without the need for

statutory provision. My Family Plan (Early Help Plan), if not already in place, will be

offered to the family as part of the Early Help Assessment process.

Yes – Agree to initiate LA Confirms with All

All professionals have 6 weeks to return the advice requested via SPOC. If advice not received, SEN teams use escalation process. SEN Case Officer writes a Summary Assessment Report based on information received and shares this, and

supporting documents, with SAM invitees.

Summary Assessment Meeting

SEN Case Officer meets with parents and relevant professionals to share all advice received and the Summary

Assessment Report. Outcomes and provision discussed. Information on personal

budget discussed.

Multi-agency EHC Panel (MAEHCP) Meeting

SEN Case Officer prepares advice and reports to be considered by the MAEHCP to decide whether to issue an EHC Plan or not.

YES NO

SEN Support Plan to be updated

LA informs parent/carers, young person and all professionals who submitted advice of LA decision. Needs can be met through a SEN Support Plan and the Local Offer. My Family Plan( Early Help Plan), if not already in place,

will be offered to the family as part of the Early Help Assessment process.

Needs Met

Child’s needs are met from provision and services already involved, or from other / new services agreed – further intervention and support. My Family Plan (Early Help Plan), if not already in place, will be offered to the family as part of the Early Help Assessment process.

Referral Made and received by LA within 5 working days

SEN Link/Case Officer allocated. SEN Case Officer prepares case to be considered at the

Multi-Agency Education, Health and Care Panel Outcome: LA decision to initiate EHC assessment or

not

Draft EHC Plan

SEN Case Officer drafts plan and sends to parents/ carers/ young person and professionals for comments within 15

days. School preference requested.

Finalisation of Plan

MAEHCP signs off EHCP and LA issues to parents/carers/young person and all involved professionals.

Provision Consultation

LA consults with educational settings including parental preference.

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Appendix 2

Abbreviations

ASD – Autism Spectrum Disorder

CAMHS – Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services

CCG – Clinical Commissioning Group

DMO/DCO – Designated Medical/Clinical Officer

EHCP – Education Health & care Plans

LA – Local Authority

LD – Learning Disability

LD CAMHs – Learning Disability Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services

MAEHCP – Multi-Agency Education Health and Care Panel

OT – Occupational Therapist

RPM – Referral Planning Meeting

SAM – Summary Assessment Meeting

SEND - Special Educational Needs & Disability

SEND Health Contacts – separate health contacts to help with information exchange

SENDIASS – Special Educational Needs & Disability Information Advice & Support Service

SPOC – Single Point of Contact

TEWV – Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

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