SEND: ‘Let’s strive for progress, not perfection’
SEND: ‘Let’s strive for progress, not perfection’
We recently hosted a virtual shared learning event for 10 Directors of Children’s Services and Education, to take stock of…
We support the rebalancing of High Needs systems towards earlier intervention and support, reducing new demand for EHCP’s, preventing demand escalating and stepping down unnecessary demand for specialist provision.
Parents or carers of a child with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) are no different from any other parent: they want the very best for their child, including in education. A combination of high demand, inadequate funding and flawed educational performance measures has resulted in a system that is not working well enough. It is also clear that more money is not the only answer – over £1.5 billion of additional funding has already been put into the sector through High Needs Block over the last two years. Our work has shown 3 key challenges which we have been addressing with over a dozen local authorities:
Our solution
Our focus is on helping deliver sustainable High Needs systems, developing a clear overview of demand, cost and outcomes along the child’s journey – and ways to re-balance spend towards earlier intervention. Through measuring system change in this way we are able to evidence direct benefits from our work – achieving both spend reductions and crucially, improvements in outcomes.
Our work in re-framing High Needs provides:
Reductions in demand and cost through the delivery of interventions along the child’s journey including fast paced behavioural trails to build confidence and momentum.
SPECIAL SCHOOL HEADTEACHER, LINCOLNSHIRE
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