This section shares ideas to support a shared ownership of inclusion at a strategic level, including service design which integrates inclusive practice into universal services.
Early Support Pathway supports effective multiagency working in Cambridgeshire.
Lucy Williams and Chris Barton from Cambridgeshire County Council discuss the existing Early Support Pathway in Cambridgeshire and how it supports effective multiagency working as part of the Council’s wider Inclusion for All Strategy.
Recommissioning specialist services for children with SEND in Kent
Lucy Williams and Sam Sheppard from Kent County Council discuss the process of recommissioning specialist services for children with SEND including using data to inform decision making and stakeholder engagement.
Dingley's Promise Specialist Centres have helped reshape inclusion in the mainstream for thousands of young children across the country through aiming to; - Seek excellence in specialist early years intervention
- Develop a greater inclusion movement and enable more children to access mainstream settings
- Help families to access the appropriate support services for their child’s needs
- Ensure every child transitions into the best educational setting for them.
Foundations (What Works Centre for Children and Families) uses the Evidence Pie
A diagram that shows the full range of evidence that should inform the commissioning, design and delivery of services. It shows the different types of evidence that are important to make the best decisions about services for children and families across children's services.Central to the Evidence Pie is What Works evidence – high-quality research and evaluation that shows what has been proven to improve outcomes for children and parents. Impact evaluations play a crucial role in identifying which interventions work, for whom, and in what contexts. This evidence, made accessible through Foundations’ Guidebook and the Practice Guides, is essential for strengthening services.
Whole-system culture – Key principles – Parenting Disabled Children & Young People Practice Guide
Foundations' Parenting Disabled Children and those with SEN Practice Guide
Commissioned by DfE outlines evidence based approaches for how a whole system culture can work to support disabled children and those with SEN as part of parenting support. These key principles outline the conditions needed for effective parenting support at a system level. These principles speak to the required culture across the local system, including health and education, wider partnerships, leadership, and practice.
The findings outline that:
- Local areas should implement different types of support to develop a mixed local offer that is responsive to the identified needs of families
- The local parenting offer should be coordinated with the formal and informal support networks around the child or young person
- Parent carers of disabled children and young people should experience effective, empowering, and non-stigmatising parenting support
Lincolnshire’s Section 23 process and the role of the Best Start Inclusion Practitioner
In this recording, Charlotte describes her current role as a newly appointed Best Start Inclusion Practitioner in Lincolneshire. Her manager Carol describes the journey they have been on in the local authority and with partners to put in place a comprehensive section 23 process which supports all staff to identify any emerging or additional needs as early as possible. The process enable Charlotte to act as a conduit in ensuring that families receive the right services at the right time and they both describe how their contact and identification has increased dramatically since putting in place this model. They also describe the important data that this whole system approach creates, to support the planning and implementation of effective resources and support for families often facing multiple disadvantage.
BSIL Inclusion Practitioner Job Description from Coventry
York's SEND CENTRAL Family Hub specialising in supporting families with SEND.
Lucy Williams and Claire Kenny from York County Council discuss how SEND CENTRAL has been set up to provide inclusive support for families of children from 0-25 with SEND. SEND CENTRAL is York’s Family Hub that specialises in supporting families of children from 0-25 with SEND. This is a place where families can meet multiple professionals and agencies all under one roof, meet other parents and carers of children and young people with SEND and where they and their child can access a range of information about events and activities.
It is an inclusive hub with no specific threshold or level of need required for access. https://www.yorksend.org/parents/send-central