SENCo Briefing 27th January 2022 - Schools

SENCo Briefing
27th January 2022

Ed Edwards – SEND Consultation
Consultation around Special
Educational Needs and Disabilities in
Oxfordshire (SEND)
10 January to 10 March 2022
Find out more and have your say
at: letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/SEND-2022

Transfers and Transitions –
particular focus on year 6/7
transition to Secondary school
• How can we build parental
  confidence in the Secondary
  mainstream offer for CYP with
  SEND?
• How can both Primary and
  Secondary SENCOs support this?

SEND spending areas

                      Currently we spend in
                      excess of £25m per
                      year educating 407
                      children/young people
                      in independent non-
                      maintained special
                      schools (INMSS)

                      47 placements ceased
                      this year, saving
                      £1.07m

Comparison of independent sector spend
              (per head of 2-18 population Source: DfE Jul 2021)

Sally Cady - SENDIASS
• How can we collectively support families?
• FAQs from families around transition to
  Secondary School

Nora Ward – Headteacher TOA
• Supporting transition as a Secondary
  school
• Seed funded Enhanced Provision pathway

Alison Blaylock – SENSS C & I
• Transition support for children with EHCPs
• Enhanced transition support packages
• Transition support for CYP at School Support

Link to SENSS parent leaflet about transition
https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/file/special
-educational-needs/movingtosecondaryschool.pdf
This is on the Local offer - please share with parents

Deb Smit and Kathryn Davidson -
              EPS
• Transition support from EPS
• Transition Booklet

Jane Elvidge – OXSIT updates
 Join our Virtual Conference from Monday 21st to Friday 25th March
                                2022
        ‘SEMH and well-being: Built-in not bolt-on inclusion’
          Booking now open! OXSIT conference 2022

                                 Only £75

 We invite schools to experience the conference by allowing staff members to
        attend different sessions across the week - all on one booking.
                     We look forward to seeing you there!

AOB
• Returning Annual Review Paperwork within Timeframes

• Liquid Logic issues and updates – see additional slide at end
Note for advice or to report any issues please email your
appropriate Admin Team;
SEN North Team SENNorthTeam@Oxfordshire.gov.uk
SEN Central Team SENCentralTeam@Oxfordshire.gov.uk
SEN South Team SENSouthTeam@Oxfordshire.gov.uk

• Next meeting – Post 16/PfA TBC

Liquid Logic FAQs and reminders
•   Parental experience of the portal is different to yours as a professional. It is the
    parent who can log in and track progress of their application and view any
    letters/documents issued via their portal.
    Professionals are able to submit new applications and view any submitted
    applications for up to 30 days afterwards. Remember to download a PDF copy
    of this if you wish to retain it beyond this period.
•   Eventually you will be set up to use the delegation portal which is where we will
    be able to send you tasks to complete and return to us, such as report requests
    and consultations, but we are not yet at this stage. We will communicate to you
    when we are at this point.
•   Please remember when you register with the portal to tick the box that says are
    you a professional – this prevents any issues in verifying your application when
    it reaches us.
•   A reminder that you can attach up to 20 documents to an application per log-in
    session so if you need to do more than this, please save your application, log
    out and log in again to continue attaching more documents.
•   A reminder that you should submit one of the setting applications and attach
    parental consent and the signed medical questionnaire to this application.