Special Voices | Newsletter Issue 64
Description
This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Early Years and Development Service Lead, Michael Jarrett, for the attention of all Early Years settings.
Special Educational Needs
Slough Vocabulary Project Half Day Conference
Description
This article has been brought to you by Cippenham Primary School's Executive Assistant, Lara Tehabsim and Slough Borough Council's Service Lead for School Effectiveness, Johnny Kyriacou. This is for the attention of Headteachers, English Leaders and SENDCo's - Primary and Secondary.
SENDCo Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support professionals from a variety of phases and settings who work with SEND pupils.
Family Information Service (FIS)
Slough Family Information Service (FIS) offers FREE impartial information and guidance about a wide range of services for children, young people and their families in response to statutory duty placed on local authorities.
SEND Guidance Documents
High quality teaching: ‘Quality First Teaching’. QFT originates in the then DCSF’s guide to personalised learning published in 2008 which summarises its key characteristics as: Highly focused lesson design with sharp objectives, High demands of pupil involvement and engagement with their learning, High levels of interaction for all pupils, Appropriate use of teacher questioning, modelling and explaining, An emphasis on learning through dialogue, with regular opportunities for pupils to talk both individually and in groups, and An expectation that pupils will accept responsibility for their own learning and work independently.
Regular use of encouragement and authentic praise to engage and motivate pupils.
Regular use of encouragement and authentic praise to engage and motivate pupils.
SENDCo support
SENDCO Support for Schools
Slough Borough Council have successfully recruited a SENDCO School Effectiveness Officer. This post was created to support, up-skill and develop SENDCos at schools and to develop a SENDCo network forum for all Slough Schools.
Slough Borough Council have successfully recruited a SENDCO School Effectiveness Officer. This post was created to support, up-skill and develop SENDCos at schools and to develop a SENDCo network forum for all Slough Schools.
SEND in Slough
National statistics show that up to 20% (14.4% in 2017) of all children/ young people have some level of SEND. Most children/young people with SEND attend a mainstream school and are supported by resources, which form part of the school’s core budget.
Current Working Groups - Developments (Banding, Resource Bases)
There are currently two important working groups that are taking place to develop the SEND offer within Slough attributed to banding (individual top-up funding for schools) and Resource Bases (discrete specialist provision within mainstream settings).
OFSTED/CQC SEND Local Area Inspection
In May 2016, OFSTED and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) launched a new framework for the joint inspection of the implementation of SEND reforms within local areas. The framework inspects the effectiveness of all organisations including the local authority and the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in implementing the SEND reforms since September 2014. All local areas will be inspected by April 2021.
SEND Funding
The SEND Service is funded through both core funding and the High Needs Block (HNB) via the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG).