Otta Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 New code of practice (final) now published and comes in to play from September. Thought it might be interesting for some parents on here.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25EDIT: To correct link. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawdy-nan Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 oh god - thank you for this. Have been looking the other way on this as I can't bear to get down and dirty with the paperwork to understand what gives. Cursory glances at IPSEA suggest doomful outcomes ... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-755004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 Now totally signed off and "up and running" (sort of)https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-784769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbain Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Not sure if you have already seen this - the southwark local offer http://localoffer.southwark.gov.uk/ Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuschia Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 My godThat local offer site is appallingFor a start it doesn't actually have any info on sen provision in local schools ... The link to local schools is to a London database ... Not even southwark specific. There are also myriad grammatical and spelling errors. It looks like it has just been thrown together and not even proof read Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawdy-nan Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 yes - it's awful and I can't fathom what ehc now means in practice. Looks very much from this that the legal rights are diminished... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 Parents needing advise may find this site usefulhttps://www.ipsea.org.uk/homePlenty there about EHCs.The whole thing is very new, and I can assure you that staff within SEN Teams in local authorities are still finding their feet with it.It should be welcomed that there has been a move to make these plans less insular, as education professionals do have a habit of thinking they're the only ones that know what is best for a child, as do social care anmd health professionals. This is a move towards making everyone come together so that the plan take in to accound opinions of everyone including the child.Legal rights shouldn't be diminished... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawdy-nan Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Yes, thanks Otta, I'd forgotten about IPSEA. The thing is, the Southwark site doesn't really say anything ...I think I'm feeling gloomy about the whole thing as we're just about to start properly thinking about yr7 transfer and the "offer" feels grim. And thin. We're in a wonderful situation at the moment but I can't think how secondary's going to work at all. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawdy-nan Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I thought the new SEN code of practice said that schools must display their SEN policies and make them available ... browsing through the "local" secondary schools websites this certainly isn't the case ...bodes ill about attitudes to SEN, but, perhaps that's the point ... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 I'm guessing here, but as the CoP only came in to action this month, schools probably have a window in which to get their acts together. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawdy-nan Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I thought they had always had to make it available. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted October 1, 2014 Author Share Posted October 1, 2014 To be honest I'm not sure, but I guess schools would argue that if you call and ask for it they'll send it to you, thus making it available.But you're right, policies should be on websites. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawdy-nan Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I'm wondering whether some schools are still updating in response to the new code of practice ... there's lots of mention in other policy documents that they should be read in conjunction with the SEN policy but then there's no SEN policy available ...probably, as you intimate, being updated...hence not available online (or, it has to be said, when requested) (wish they'd get on with it though) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbain Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Yes - the local offer site is appalling, full of broken links and spelling mistakes. It also doesn?t really give any information whatsoever. Hopefully though it will improve over time. My son who has special needs is currently pre-school age and to be honest the whole idea of sending him to school terrifies me. I have no idea how/if it will work, which school will be able to support him etc. However the services provided by Southwark for preschool children with disabilities are actually pretty good. The vast majority of the people we work with at Sunshine House are wonderful, committed professionals who seem to really care about my son. They also try hard to provide as much support for us as they can - we get weekly hydrotherapy, a weekly physio led group, invaluable support from our KIDS/portage worker. So its definitely not all bad. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-785945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawdy-nan Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 This is helpful re statements and transition to EHC as well as the changes to the process and systems etc http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/a2198536-Guest-post-and-Q-A-Changes-to-SEN-legislation-what-you-need-to-know Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-786268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsMaz Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 You can also look on the Southwark parent carer forum website. Southwark Parent Carer Council, which is for parents of children with SEN/D. www.southwarkpcc.org.ukParent Partnership is now called Southwark Information and Advice Service (IAS) - and is for parents of children with SEN and yp with SEN - and they are supposed to advise about schools and the new EHC process and social care/personal budgets. I say supposed to...There are some legal fact sheets and template letters available about the reforms by Irwen Mitchell solicitors http://www.irwinmitchell.com/personal/protecting-your-rights/social-healthcare-law/the-children-and-families-act-2014/factsheets-and-template-letters Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-786538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawdy-nan Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Thanks MsMaz! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/45473-sen-code-of-practice-june-2014/#findComment-786569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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