Local Offer

• Councillor Julie Reed, Cabinet Member for Children and Families
• Kay Mitchell-Gough, Co-Chair, Parents’ Forum
• Julia Williams, Co-Chair, Parents’ Forum
• Peter Thorpe, Director: Learning, Skills and Culture
• Mick Gibbs, Director: Children and Community Resilience
• Karen Pavey, Director: Adults and Community Wellbeing
• Alex Seale, Chief Operating Officer, North Lincolnshire CCG

WELL – where children and families enjoy good health and emotional wellbeing

Where children and families:

• Are a healthy weight and live active lives
• Enjoy positive emotional wellbeing and mental health
• Receive the health care and support they need in their community where possible
• Learn resilience and self-regulation through effective provision in settings and schools.

PROSPEROUS where children and young people have excellent education and improved skills

Where children and families:

• Are enabled to have social mobility and equal access to resources in their early years and education
• Have high levels of speech, language and communication skills
• Have equal and fair access to a consistent, high quality education offer in schools and settings
• Are empowered, enabled and supported to achieve as they transition to adulthood
• Achieve their potential (including the most vulnerable).

CONNECTED where children and families live in flourishing communities

Where children and families:

• Are empowered and enabled to participate, have equality of opportunity and access to creative, flexible support at the earliest point in the right place by the right people
• Benefit from engaging in positive activities
• Build resilience and find resolutions for themselves
• Are able to transport themselves around the area
• Have access to information and resources online and social media
• Have a home, a job and a friend (including vulnerable adults).

• Transitions -preparing for adulthood
• Developing the workforce – integrated One Family Approach
• Building family and community resilience
• Continuing to enable voice and co-production
• Integrated Children’s Trust Board (ICT) ‘Shine a Light’ focus upon SEN/D Support.

Progress against our priorities and commissioning intentions 2017 – 2020

• Successfully bid to the DfE for a new SEND Free School for students over the age of 16 who have severe learning disability, profound and multiple learning disability, speech and language communication needs, Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or potentially challenging and complex behaviours (scheduled to open September 2022) – this new provision will have a vocational focus
• Developed our Key Stage 2 primary provision to support children with more complex needs in relation to Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs (open January 2021)
• Opened a new secondary phase SEMH inclusion support provision – ‘Headway’ – at Baysgarth School in Barton-upon Humber (SEND Capital Grant) with plans for two further provisions in 2020
• Identified Mental Health Champions in all of our schools as part of the Emotional Health and Well-being Plans and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) transformation
• Coordinated a streamlined service between health and education to ensure standardised delivery of the Integrated Health Check
• Launched our new and integrated neuro-diversity diagnostic pathway in relation to Autism, Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder (ADHD) and/or Learning Disabilities – involving professionals across a spectrum of expertise
• Worked with parents and professionals across education, health and care to implement a Sensory Needs Framework which builds upon the existing multi-disciplinary/multi-agency approach to sensory needs assessment and intervention in North Lincolnshire
• Developed a learning disabilities ‘health check register’ of young people aged 14 and over with learning disabilities.

We have:

• Re-commissioned the Children’s Domiciliary Care Framework
• Re-commissioned and embedded Health Visiting and School Nursing to create one service delivering the Healthy Child Programme for children and young people aged 0-19 (0-25 SEND)
• Reviewed the Sensory Needs Framework based on evaluation, experience and need
• Transformed and agreed a new jointly commissioned approach and specification to meeting the needs of children and young people with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) – with school/setting delivery model
• Reviewed and enhanced our approach to meeting the needs of children and young people with palliative and end of life care needs
• Refreshed the North Lincolnshire Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Well-Being Transformation Plan 2015 – 2022
• Continued to commission education, health and care provision for children and young people with complex needs as close to home as possible so that they can remain within their family and community setting
• Worked with Headteachers and Principals to review delivery approaches in relation to the re-commissioning of Alternative Learning Provision (ALP) for young people at Key Stages 3 and 4 and introduced various initiatives (including provision development and Early Help Networks) to support quality inclusion
• Introduced and co-produced a digital/web-based real-time solution to SEND statutory functions – the ‘EHCP Hub’ with direct young person, parent/carer and professional access with plans to roll-out Annual Review modules in 2021
• Explored the sufficiency of North Lincolnshire’s special school estate and delivery options for the future.

We have:

• Transformed Group-Based Short Break Services with North Lincolnshire Council providing an in-house service
• Jointly commissioned an All-Age Carers’ Service which will help create seamless support as young people prepare for adulthood
• Reviewed and developed the Special Educational Needs and Disability Information and Advice Support Service (SENDIASS) in line with changes in national guidance
• Continued to develop a range of independent living and supported housing provision and options for young adults with more complex needs
• Expanded the number of post-16/19 Supported Internships so that more young people with SEND can access learning and training opportunities in the workplace
• Re-commissioned the Complex Care Play Scheme and developed this in accordance with future demand and need (Easter and summer)
• Continued to develop the ‘Good to Great’ training and support model for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCos) to support appropriate identification of need, equity of access and consistency of support (including guidance on appropriate time allocation)
• Continued to provide a training offer to settings, schools and wider professionals in relation SEND
• Reviewed and completely updated the SEND Local Offer website including key co-produced policies and protocols (e.g. the North Lincolnshire Preparing for Adulthood Protocol 2020).

Continue to support children and young people with complex health/care and educational needs to access services/provision close to home so they can remain with
their family and in their community setting.

• Undertake a review of SEND home to school transport arrangements to ensure that this continues to meet need most effectively/efficiently into the future including post-16 arrangements.
• Develop total transport solutions to meet all needs and promote active travel across and beyond North Lincolnshire.
• Continue to transform digital solutions to improve access to information and resources and enhance information sharing and analytics (e.g. EHCP digital hub, Blue Badge applications) – supporting independence and enablement.
• Further develop the range of information and tools contained within the Local Offer to support families and the workforce.
• Continue to develop mechanisms for celebrating and sharing good practice – at home, at school and in the community and as part of the One Family Approach (e.g. SENCo and Early Help Networks, Voluntary and Community Groups).
• Review the voluntary and community offer for children and young people and consider how, in partnership, this offer can be better embedded within individual planning.
• Take the EHCP Digital Hub to the next stage of development by introducing the Annual Review Module – supporting improved timeliness for children, young people and families.
• Review and develop the SEND Workforce Development Offer in the context of the One Family Approach – with increased opportunities for multi-disciplinary/multi- agency and parent/carer training and support.
• Develop a Community Enablement Plan for 2021-23.
• Review sufficiency in the context of hearing, vision and physical disability support services for 2021-24.

• Review and further develop the skills and employability offer for 16-to-24 year-olds to further support strong transitions and positive, sustainable opportunities
  particularly where there is over-representation (e.g. previously SEN/D Support).
• Further develop opportunities in relation to Supported Internships so that more young people with SEND can access learning and training opportunities in the workplace.
• Review how we are framing Preparing for Adulthood outcomes to ensure less variability in quality and that they are aligned with the wider local offer and opportunities (e.g. training and employer opportunities).
• Continue the development of a range of independent living and supported housing provision and options for young adults with more complex needs.
• Capture the good practice and learning during Covid-19 that has enabled some of our most vulnerable children, young people and families to flourish and be resilient.
• Ensure there is an increased focus upon our ambition for positive transitions – ensuring we are even more ‘joined-up’.
• Further enhance the robustness of scrutiny and challenge to underperformance through the Education Standards Board and the SEND Standards Board with a continued focus upon quality inclusion.
• Review and further develop the SEND school improvement offer to support increased consistency and more peer-to-peer support and challenge.
• Develop and introduce a new Early Years Getting The Best Start Plan for 2021 – 24 including the introduction of a one-year-old integrated check to support identification of need even earlier.
• Further consult with headteachers and wider partners to identify how best to support those children and families who need additional expert support at the early stages and prior to formal diagnosis in order to prevent escalation of need and exclusion (e.g. Neuro-Diversity Pathway Project).

• Continue to implement the new Neuro-Diversity Pathway beyond the initial year and ensure a continued multi-disciplinary/integrated One Family Approach into the
  future.
• Consider how the setting/school-based Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) model can influence/be applied to other therapies/allied health support (e.g. Occupational Therapy/Dietetics).
• Develop and implement a new Children and Young People’s Emotional Well-being and Mental Health Plan 2021 – 24 that is aligned to and inclusive of relevant Transforming Care Partnership (TCP) and Humber Coast and Vale Integrated Care System (ICS) priorities and intentions.
• Undertake a review of Mental Health Champions in schools and introduce/implement the role of Resiliency Governors to ensure greater accountability and scrutiny.
• Continue to review sufficiency within the locality and develop specialist provision for children with SEMH needs in Key Stage 2 and beyond.
• Continue to work with GPs around GP Learning Disability LD/ASD annual health checks – supporting improved identification of need for this group of young people.
• Consider moving to a prescription model for the provision of specialist equipment.
• Build upon the integrated good practice in relation to neuro-diversity and identification of need for children by developing an All-Age Autism/Neuro-Diversity Strategy.
• Further review and develop our approach to meeting the needs of children with palliative and end of life care needs.
• Undertake a review of how we support medical needs in the context of home to school transport.
• Continue to keep under review the effectiveness, impact and outcomes of Personal Budgets/Direct Payments particularly in the context of the market-place.
• Ensure the sufficiency and inclusiveness of positive activities through a robust and targeted youth participation offer.
• Embed a Public Health response to address key issues (including the outcomes of lifestyle surveys).
• Review access to equipment including wheelchair provision and assisted technologies.
• Review Continuing Health Care provision for children and young people with complex needs.
• Bid for national Learning Disability/Autism Spectrum Key-Worker Project Funding to enhance the local mental health offer in North Lincolnshire (Humber Coast and Vale ICS Project).
• Review and continue to develop bereavement and loss support services building upon existing arrangements for children, families and professionals.