Advice for Pupils with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND) or Additional Support Needs 2 For young people with additional support needs
If you get extra support in If you are school this may mean not sure please check with your that you have an school SENCO. Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
For young people with additional support needs
The deadline to confirmwhich school or college you will be moving on If you have an to is by 31st March 2021, this is to ensure your transition can be well EHCP, you will be planned. This may mean you will be asked to make choices earlier than supported by the other Year 11 students. You will need to identify your preferred course Council’s SEN team and college/post 16 placement by 23rd October 2020. in securing a suitable So, what will happen over the next few months? post 16 course.
You should have got a letter from your EHCP Coordinator during the Summer Term of Year 10 to advise you of the process and to send you a form so you can tell us what you want to do when you finish secondary school.
To help this process you can:
A Think about the course you would like to do A Research the schools / colleges that At the back of you would like to go to. this section there is a timeline of actions If you would like to find out more please that will be taken contact the SEND Team: to ensure a smooth [ 020 8604 7263 transition for you. 0 SENenquiries@croydon.gov.uk Y https://localoffer.croydon.gov.uk
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What you can learn and the qualifications you need
What you Entry Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 can learn Foundation Level 1 courses Level 2 courses, AS/A Level courses courses, Transition Traineeships Apprenticeships BTEC National programmes, Transition Traineeships Vocational courses, Supported programmes e.g. C-TECHs Internships. Supported Level 3 courses Internships. Apprenticeships. Inclusive/ Supported Apprenticeships (you only need Entry Level 3 literacy and numeracy if you have an EHCP).
What GCSE or equivalent grades do Some GCSEs (or At least 4 GCSEs All least 4 GCSEs you need? No GCSE passes equivalent) at (or equivalent) at (or equivalent) grade 3 - 1 grade 3 or 4 grades 4 or above
How long will it take you? 1-3 years 1-2 years 1-2 years 2 years
Post-16 Prospectus 2020/21 | www.youngcroydon.org.uk 4 Where you can study in Croydon
Addington Valley Academy Coulsdon College 150 place co-educational school specialising in Coulsdon Sixth Form College specialises in autism and complex needs. providing high quality education for 16-19 Temporary site open from Sep 2020. year old students in a supportive and caring Newly constructed school to open in Field Way community and is committed to equality of rights Addington from Sep 2021. and opportunity. Contact: Contact: [ 0345 402 0453 [ 01737 551176 / [email protected] / [email protected] Y https://addingtonvalley.org Y www.coulsdon.ac.uk
Beckmead College John Ruskin College A special community school for students John Ruskin is an inclusive mainstream college who have social, emotional and mental and we aim to meet the needs of students with health difficulties. special educational needs (SEN) or disability who Contact: meet our entry criteria. [ 020 8289 4701 Contact: / [email protected] [ 020 8651 1131 Y www.beckmeadfamilyofschools.org / [email protected] Y www.johnruskin.ac.uk Bensham Manor A special community mixed school for young Priory Post 16 Centre people with complex learning needs and autism. Mixed school for young people with severe Contact: learning difficulties and / or autism. [ 020 8684 0116 Contact: / [email protected] Y www.benshammanor.co.uk [ 020 8653 8222 / [email protected] Y www.priorycroydon.org.uk Croydon College Croydon College is a Further Education college with a wide range of professional and technical St. Giles School programmes. Mixed school for young people with profound physical disabilities and complex medical needs. Croydon Pathways is a programme (for young people aged 19+) delivered between Croydon Contact: College (at the Coulsdon site) and Waddon [ 020 8680 2141 Centre. The provision is a bespoke individualised / [email protected] programme for young people who have severe Y www.st-gilesschool.co.uk and complex needs. There is a focus on educational progress alongside the development of life skills and inclusion in their local community, and is a bridge from education into adult life. Referrals to Croydon Pathways should be made via the allocated EHCP Coordinator. Contact: [ 020 8760 5934 / [email protected] Y www.croydon.ac.uk
Post-16 Prospectus 2020/21 | www.youngcroydon.org.uk 5 Support into employment
Croydon Adult Learning & Training Croydon Works (CALAT) Croydon Works is Croydon’s CALAT offers courses for Job and Training Hub! We people with additional have been operating since 2016 as the primary support needs. What type of free recruitment service. Our service works with programmes do we offer? businesses in and around the Croydon area who are 16-19 year old Study looking to find local, skilled and experienced talent. Programme, Work placement, Vocational or Our focus as a service is to support our residents employability qualification, English & Maths and with a wide range of pathways into employment. 1-1 support from a CALAT mentor. We have knowledgeable and sector specific CALAT also offer creativity & wellbeing courses Brokerage Officers to engage with employers and such as: Rambling, Home Baking. Gardening, residents, who respond to the job market needs. Mosaics and many more. As well as creative We host training in a range of areas such as: courses if you need to develop your everyday Employability, Customer Service, Security, skills we offer students courses in Developing Construction, Hospitality and many more. ICT and communication skills, Relationships and Furthermore, we treat apprenticeships as a top health, Exploring places of interest using media, priority and understand the importance of gaining Creative Multimedia and Managing money. vocational qualifications, also working with the In addition to the above CALAT also offers E3 Croydon Apprenticeship Academy. Award in Employability Skills: Caring for you If you aren’t sure of which path you want to & your community; City & Guilds E3 Award in take, one of our Officers will have a look at your employability: Money and Movement; City and experience and skillset, to see what sector or career Guilds E3 Award in employability skills; Preparing path will fit you best. They may also identify any to work in Hospitality and OCR E3 Award in ICT: training or volunteering experience you may need Advanced computers to further your job search. Contact: Croydon Works engages with residents who have [ 020 8726 7777 a range of experience and are from all walks of / [email protected] or life, so wherever you are in your career path get in / [email protected] touch with the team to see how we can help. Y www.calat.ac.uk Contact: [ 0208 255 2724 / 0208 255 2725 / [email protected] Y www.croydonworks.co.uk
If you are 18+, the Youth Obligation Support Programme at Job Centre Plus aims to support young people into employment, work with training or an Apprenticeship. You will: A Attend a series of workshops that will help to prepare for your next step and then A Get intensive, personalised support that fits your needs whilst you look for work. Contact: [ 0800 169 0190 Y https://los.direct.gov.uk/
Post-16 Prospectus 2020/21 | www.youngcroydon.org.uk 6 Where you can study outside of Croydon
Your EHCP Co-ordinator will always work to find you the most appropriate placement. Sometimes this means that you might have to go a college outside of Croydon. The colleges listed below are just some of the colleges that you could go to; also where former Croydon students have gone to.
Bromley College Reigate College Rookery Lane, Bromley BR2 8HE Castlefield Rd, Reigate RH2 0SD [ 020 3954 4000 / [email protected] [ 01737 221 118 / email: [email protected] Y www.lsec.ac.uk Y website: www.reigate.ac.uk
Capel Manor College South Thames College: Carshalton campus Crystal Palace Park campus / Mottingham campus Nightingale Road, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 2EJ London's only specialist environmental college, [ 020 8544 4444 offering a diverse range of full and part time / email: [email protected] courses. The college offer personalised support Y website: www. carshalton.ac.uk on all courses. [ 0303 003 1234 ext. 1173 / [email protected] South Thames College: Merton campus Y www.capel.ac.uk London Road, Morden SM4 5QX [ 020 8918 7777 / email: [email protected] Y website: www.merton.ac.uk East Surrey College London Rd, Redhill RH1 2JX South Thames College: Tooting campus [ 01737 772611 / email: [email protected] 71 Tooting High Street, London SW17 0TQ Y website: www.esc.ac.uk [ 020 8918 7777 / email: [email protected] Kingston College Y website: www.south-thames.ac.uk Kingston Hall Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2AQ [ 020 8546 2151 South Thames College: / email: [email protected] Wandsworth Campus Y website: www. kingston-college.ac.uk Wandsworth High Street, London SW18 2PP [ 020 8918 7777 / email: [email protected] Lambeth College Y website: www.south-thames.ac.uk 45 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham Common, London SW4 9BL Southwark College [ 020 7501 5000 25 The Cut, London, SE1 8LF / email: [email protected] [ 020 3757 4000 / [email protected] Y website: www.lambethcollege.ac.uk Y www.southwark.ac.uk
North East Surrey College (NESCOT) Westminster Kingsway College Reigate Rd, Epsom KT17 3DS Address: 211 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8RA [ 020 8394 1731 Y www.nescot.ac.uk [ 020 7963 4181 t www.nescot.ac.uk/about-nescot/contact-us/ / email: [email protected] Y website: www.westking.ac.uk
Please note this is not an exhaustive list of options outside of Croydon.
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Just to let you know: You are able to request a place with an If eligible, we are able to provide a range of independent school or college or further education services including, but not limited to: provider. The SEN team will consider your request A support available in the home and make a decision as to whether the placement A respite services for parents either at home or is suitable and whether you can access a similar in a different setting. provision in a local maintained placement. A supported living or specialist residential placements. The Croydon Transition Team support For more information on how we can help please young people between 14 and 25 years of age with see: https://localoffer.croydon.gov.uk severe and complex needs and disabilities making the transition from childhood to adulthood. Travel The team work directly with the young person Most students aged 16+, (except those with and their family/carers to ensure that their views, severe learning difficulties or profound and wishes and feelings are central in the planning of multiple learning difficulties) will be assessed to their future life as an adult. find out whether you are suitable for the travel The Croydon Transition Team will ensure that training programme. parents/carers are involved in every step of the If you successfully complete the travel training process by sharing knowledge and information, programme, this will be great for your confidence enabling them, along with their child, to make and independence. It will also mean that you can informed decisions about their child's future. more easily get to education, training, employment We will: opportunities or other day to day activities. A Support the young person and their If the travel training programme is not parents/carers. appropriate for you, your family may be given A Help plan for the young person's future when a personal transport budget to make private they leave school. travel arrangements to the nearest education A Provide the right information at the right time. establishment offering your chosen course of A Make sure that the young person and their study. The local authority will work with your parents'/carers' views are heard. family to find the best travel solution. A Offer a carer's assessment. It might be that you are eligible for council We work with: provided transport, e.g. for students with severe A SEN/LDD Personal Advisors. or profound and multiple learning difficulties A Children's & Adult Social Care. and this may be considered the best option to A Schools and colleges. support you getting to school or college. A Further & Higher education. To find out more about and also how to apply for A Voluntary organisations. support with your travel, please contact: A Health. A Benefits. Samer Adbis: / [email protected] or A Croydon Works. Koreen Sinclair: / [email protected] We can also give information on: A Leisure activities. A Housing.
Eligibility In order to receive support from the Croydon Transition Team, the young person will need to be a resident of the London Borough of Croydon and meet eligibility criteria for either children's or adult social care, dependent on age (14 to 18 for children's social care, 18 to 25 for adult social care).
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Timeline of key activities for transfer of Young People in Year 11 with EHC plans
Year 11 Year 9 Year 11 No later than and 10 September 23rd October
Your EHCP co-ordinator Deadline Meeting will write to you and send to return FE you a form so you can tell preference with someone us where you would like to form in school to study next year. discuss career options.
If you and your parents are not able to meet this deadline, you should notify your EHCP co- You could attend ordinator to seek further some open days at advice and support. several local post-16 educational providers to see what they can offer you.
Information about local further educational providers can be found on the Croydon SEND Local Offer. You can also look on each college provider’s website Y https:[email protected] to find out about their SEND Provision.
*The LA SEND Service manage the Year 11 transfer process for children with Education Health Care plans. You may be also be asked to complete the college provider’s application form.
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Timeline of key activities for transfer of Young People in Year 11 with EHC plans
Year 11 No later Year 11 Autumn/Spring 31 March Summer Term (Year 11) Term
Your co-ordinator will Amended Joint communication with contact the providers listed EHC plan issued further educational placement on your preference form. naming further and secondary school to educational discuss what has worked well placement and other actions to enable successful transition to Year 12, including agreement on EHC outcomes at the end of FE and Placement decisions are made the support required to meet with due regard for your preference these outcomes.er and agree and consideration of whether outcomes with staff from the the provider can offer a suitable You and your primary and new secondary education which is compatible parents have the for (name) the end of key stage with efficient use of resources and right to appeal if education of others. you do not agree 3 (Year 9) and any changes in with the provider provision that may be needed • Suitable education that is in the secondary school. compatible with the efficient named. use of resources and education of others. • Whether the school can provide Enhanced transition a suitable education which is arrangements might include compatible with the efficient use additional visits to the of resources and education of further educational provider, others. familiarisation with the building and routines, daily events and/ • Decisions about school or practising the journey to and placements are made with due from the location. regard for parental preference and consideration of whether the school can provide a suitable education which is compatible with the efficient use of resources and education of others.
Travel assistance to and from FE provider. You do not automatically qualify for travel assistance. Once a FE establishment has been named you can apply for travel assistance. Each request is considered on an individual basis based on eligibility criteria.
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You might be entitled to money November that can support you if you Go to open days! carry on studying or start an Apprenticeship – this is called a Find out what support is available 16-19 Bursary Fund. See page 9 for for you and how to get it. If more information. September available, attend taster days/ transition meetings with the Research you options. What would provider. you like to do and where? Does this option fit with your predicted grades? Some colleges and 6th forms start interviewing this month. Ask for advice! You can talk to your tutor, your school Careers Adviser tutors or your teacher. Contact the places you’re interested in and plan a visit. With your parent / carer, complete Before the the Local Authority’s Preference Form and send it to EHCPschooltransfers@ Easter holiday croydon.gov.uk Check costs of courses, books, field With the help of your parent / December trips and transport. carer, open a bank account ideally, before you turn 16. The end of term is the ideal time to have submitted all of your applications.
After the October Easter holiday You will need to identify your January If you are looking for an preferred course and college / post Apprenticeship or Traineeship, now 16 placement by 23 October 2020. Think about a back-up plan! is the time to keep on top of this! If you need support with your travel, This is when you should submit an 31 May is the deadline for travel find out more by looking up travel early application for your chosen assistance applications! course to avoid disappointment. training on www.croydon.gov.uk. 6th Forms may have an induction Start preparing for your interviews day during June. (see page 8) for some tips. If you are in Yr. 11, your official last It might be worth doing some day of school is the last Friday in work experience during the June. Only after this date, can you Christmas holidays – start making start working full-time or start an applications now. Apprenticeship.
If you would like to find out more, February please contact the SEND Team: [ 020 8604 7263 If you’re thinking about starting / [email protected] an Apprenticeship, now is a good Y https://localoffer.croydon.gov.uk time to research the different Apprenticeships available (see page 13 for more information). Also make sure your CV is up to date.
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