Hampshire SEND Pathfinder

This page of our website is intended as an information resource about the SEN & Disability Green paper and the testing of the change proposals via the newly established Pathfinders.

SEND Green Paper

The Government’s Green paper 'Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability' makes wide-ranging proposals for changes in the way services are provided for children with special needs and disabilities.  These include:

  • a new approach to identifying SEN through a single Early Years setting-based category and school-based category of SEN;
  • a new single assessment process and Education, Health and Care Plan by 2014;
  • local authorities and other services will set out a local offer of all services available;
  • the option of a personal budget by 2014 for all families with children with a statement of SEN or a new Education, Health and Care Plan;
  • give parents a real choice of school, either a mainstream or special school; and
  • introduce greater independence to the assessment of children’s needs.

SEND Reform Pathfinders

The Government’s proposals for changes in the way services are provided for children with special needs and disabilities are to be tested across England by a group of 20 pathfinders representing 31 local authorities and Primary Care Trust (PCT) partners.

 

SEND Pathfinder website

Mott MacDonald is a supporting organisation to each of the Pathfinders and has launched the 'SEND Pathfinder' website.

This website is available for anyone in the wider stakeholder group to access for information on the activities during the Pathfinder project. The site has several different elements and gives information on a number of the organisations and local authorities involved in the project.

There is a page on the different local authorities involved in the Pathfinder project, their bids and their Mott MacDonald Specialist Support Advisors. There is another page giving information on each of the Delivery Partners also contributing to the project.

To access this website created for interested external parties please click here 
 

South East 7 (SE7) SEND Pathfinder

In south east England a partnership of councils called the South East 7 (SE7) SEND Pathfinder Project has been chosen to be a pathfinder area for the potential reforms. The SE7 SEND Pathfinder is a collaboration of councils involving Hampshire County Council, Surrey County Council, West Sussex County Council, East Sussex County Council, Brighton and Hove City Council, Kent County Council and Medway Council. The area serves 1.3million children including more than 24,000 with special educational needs. The SE7 SEND Pathfinder will work closely with partners in the health service and the voluntary sector and with parents of children with special needs and disabilities.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE SE7 PATHFINDER WEBSITE  
 

Local Pathfinder Structure

The local pathfinder structure is 'Change Board – Hampshire SEND Green Paper Pathfinder' (Hampshire Change Board).  See below, under Local SEND Pathfinder News and Local SEND Pathfinder Archive for information about what is happening locally in Hampshire.  

Voluntary Sector Engagement

The voluntary sector will be represented on the Hampshire Change Board, on its core team and on the various work stream groups. The Alliance  hosted a preliminary voluntary sector meeting to discuss how voluntary sector representatives would be chosen and supported and how information about the Pathfinder will be disseminated to the sector. Click here to view the minutes from this initial voluntary sector meeting.

A further voluntary sector meeting was held on 27 January 2012 (minutes of this meeting can be accessed from the archive below), when the arrangements for voluntary sector representation were finalised.  Details of the the voluntary sector representatives on the Hampshire Change Board, on its core team and on the various work stream groups can be viewed by clicking here.  

A proposal for funding to provide administrative support to voluntary sector representatives and to enable information dissemination to the wider sector has been submitted to Hampshire Change Board. A further proposal has been submitted for backfill and expenses to support voluntary sector engagement.  Both proposals have been accepted and details of how these arrangements will be administered can be viewed by clicking here.


 

Latest News

 

The Department for Education has issued the following advice about the Government's intention to bring forward legislation in the current session of Parliament to take forward its Green Paper reforms.

It is necessary to begin the legislative process this year in order to meet the commitments in the Green Paper for implementation from 2014. These changes are vital for children, young people and families and it's vital that we get them right, building on the findings of the pathfinder programme. The timing of the Bill will enable us to do so.

Our aim is to publish a draft Bill in the summer which would be informed by early lessons emerging from the pathfinder programme and evaluation. There would then be further opportunities for the pathfinder programme to inform the pre-legislative scrutiny stage in the autumn. Our intention would be to introduce the Bill early in 2013. Once the Bill is passing through Parliament in 2013, pathfinder experience will inform debates on the Bill and the details of draft regulations and statutory guidance. Lessons learned from the pathfinders and the evaluation will inform how the reforms are implemented, subject to legislation securing Parliamentary approval in 2014.

The Government's aim is for the Bill to include measures to support strategic joint working between services in providing support for their disabled children and young people with special educational needs. Our intention is for the legislation to also require:


*        Every local authority to develop and publish a local offer of support for children, young people and families - including from early years settings, schools and colleges and the voluntary sector and from health and social care services;

*        A new, single assessment process and Education, Health and Care Plan from birth to 25 with arrangements comparable to statements for young people over 16 - whether they are in school or at college - this is a significant change and will help us to get better transitions to adult life, independence and the world of work;

*        All families with an Education, Health and Care Plan to be offered a personal budget for their support;

*        Parents to have the right to express a preference for any state funded school - including Academies and Free Schools - and have their preference considered under the same criteria as maintained schools;

*        Families to try mediation before they appeal to the Tribunal;

*        And we will seek a power to trial giving children the right to appeal to the Tribunal.

The Green Paper Next Steps document... will show the significant progress which has already been made in taking forward the Green Paper commitments that don't rely on legislation...'

 

 

 

 

 

 

Local SEND
Pathfinder Archive

          
  Local Project
Management Structure		 Terms of Reference & Membership Action Plans Evaluation Minutes/notes of meetings,
workshops, etc

Hampshire Change Board

 Click here        November 2011
          January 2012
          March 2012 

Project Group

          
           

Workstreams

  Workstreams meetings schedule        
Assessment & Single Plan    Click here Click here Click here  
Personal budgets    Click here      November 2011
Local Core Offer      Click here    
Strengthened multi-agency
strategic commissioning and
collaboration		    Click here      
Support to Parents & Carers    Click here      
Banded Funding    Click here      
           
           

Hampshire SEND Pathfinder News Bulletin 

         March 2012
           

Voluntary Sector

          December 2011
           January 2012
          March 2012

 

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