Special Educational Needs and Disability Termly Newsletter 27 June 2012 Spring Term 2017 Special Education Needs (SEN) Service Education, Learning and Skills London Borough of Lambeth 0207-926-7754 and 0207-926-9460 [email protected] 10th Floor International House Canterbury Crescent Brixton London SW9 7QE Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to present the first in our new termly SEND Service Newsletters for schools. I hope that you will find it a useful way of receiving service updates and news from the team. There have been many changes within SEND over the last year including a complete restructure to the team. The team is now coming together with new starters and current staff changing their roles. We will also be actively recruiting for new roles within the team over the coming months. I am confident the changes will allow us to continue to support our schools, improve communication, and allow us to better meet our responsibilities in light of the recent SEN reforms. Happy New Year! Adam Yarnold SEND Head of Service SEND Newsletter Spring Term 2017 Page 1 of 10 Special Educational Needs and Disability Termly Newsletter 27 June 2012 SEND Team Following the recent restructure there have been some changes within the setup of the SEND team which we are confident will support us to continue to meet our statutory duties. The key changes to the team include; Karen Nugent who many of you will know through the SEN Early Years’ service is now the Interim SEND Operations Manager. Maureen Etienne-Joseph will be moving into the Principal Management Officer for 0- 14 and managing that team as we move forward. Ioanna Menegatou has now moved permanently to her role as Education Health Care Plan Coordinator. We still have some key positions that need to be filled and these will be recruited to early in the New Year. We appreciate your patience with us while we go through these changes. Specialist Booklet SEND have produced a “Specialist Education Provision in Lambeth 2016-2017” which lists all of the all of the maintained Specialist provision within Lambeth. Copies were sent around to all schools, please ring the SEND team if you would like more copies. Copies can also be found on the Local Offer: http://www.younglambeth.org.uk/local-offer/landing-pages/schools-and-education-5-16.html EHCP The EHCP team continues to work incredibly hard undertaking requests for new assessments in Lambeth. Since September 2014 we have processed over 600 Education Health Care Plans, this works out at approximately 272 per year. SEND Newsletter Spring Term 2017 Page 2 of 10 Special Educational Needs and Disability Termly Newsletter 27 June 2012 Monitoring Team The team continues to work with schools and is split into 2 areas 0-14 and 14-25. We will be recruiting to vacant positions within this team over the next months to ensure we can meet the demand that is ever growing in Lambeth. Local Area Review OFSTED / CQC INSPECTION OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACT. Many thanks to all the schools that have returned their completed SEND SEF checklists. These have been collated and written up into a School SEF which is part of the Local area SEF for Lambeth. We have a program board which meets quarterly and has representatives from Education, Health and Children and Adults Social care, from Jan 2017 we will have parents also as part of the board. To provide additional capacity and ensure that Lambeth Local Area is SEND inspection ready Virginia Roberts, who has a background in quality assurance and inspection across children’s social care and education has joined the SEND team. Virginia will be working with schools and other partners to ensure everyone is aware of the contribution they will need to make to the inspection. Area of greatest improvement in 2016 SEN Appeals During the period 2011/12 to 2014/15 the number of SEN appeals (per 10,000 of school population) in Lambeth almost doubled, from 7.7 to 14.1. Conversely, in the same period, the statistical neighbor average fell from 9.0 to 5.2, meaning that the gap between Lambeth and its SNs in 2014/15 was 8.9. The reasons for this were explored by the incoming SEN Lead and improvement actions identified and implemented, including a fortnightly meeting held with key staff to consider appeals, and wherever possible try to resolve these locally without the need for Tribunal. This action has resulted in significant improvement. SEND Newsletter Spring Term 2017 Page 3 of 10 Special Educational Needs and Disability Termly Newsletter 27 June 2012 The recently published DfE data shows that in 2015/16 Lambeth’s SEN appeals reduced to 8.59, whereas the SN average has risen slightly to 5.6, so the gap is now only 2.99. Lambeth is still in Band D nationally, but the -5.9 improvement means that the council has made the most progress by far nationally, whereas many LAs have experienced an increase. (The all England average has seen a 0.61% increase in the level of appeals). Lambeth sets out in its Local Offer the support available for children and young people with SEND. This is published online on the Young Lambeth website at http://www.younglambeth.org/local-offer. We ask that all schools include this link on their websites and within their SEND information reports. We are currently holding focus groups with parents and carers, to make changes to the Local Offer to make it easier to navigate and ensure that it contains the information they are looking for in an easy to find and read format. We would also like to get the views of children and young people – if you would like to be involved with this please contact Claire Kirwan [email protected] and we can hold a sessions with your school also. SEND Newsletter Spring Term 2017 Page 4 of 10 Special Educational Needs and Disability Termly Newsletter 27 June 2012 SEND CONTACTS UPDATE Below are all of the SEND officers listed with their telephone numbers and the schools they support, we also have 2 administrator numbers if you are unable to get hold of your officer and these are: 0207-926-7754 and 0207-926-9460 There is also a general SEND support email you can use – [email protected] Contact details for all staff within SEND can be found on the next page. If you are unable to contact your named school officer please contact Karen Nugent or Maureen Etienne- Joseph. Also included in this newsletter is a list of schools alphabetically with the names of the monitoring officer who supports you. SUGGESTIONS We would be delighted if you would let us know what areas you would like to see covered in future Newsletters. Please contact Claire Kirwan [email protected] SEND Newsletter Spring Term 2017 Page 5 of 10 Special Educational Needs and Disability Termly Newsletter 27 June 2012 SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS 10th Floor, International House, Canterbury Crescent, London, SW9 7QE Lambeth Main Switchboard No: (020) 7926 1000 FORENAME SURNAME JOB TITLE EXT. NO Adam Yarnold Head of Special Educational Needs 69579 Karen Nugent SEN Manager 07908 119625 Gemma Arnold SALT Therapist 65632 Angie Wyett Funding Systems & Support Officer 69574 Claire Kirwan Transformation Officer 66678 Anna Eracleous Admin 69460 Marjorie Reid Admin 67754 ASSESSMENT TEAM Sara Wannop Assessment & Placement Officer 69254 Ioanna Menegatou EHC Co-ordinator 69584 Nana Akyaa EHC Co-ordinator 69235 Meleter James EHC Co-ordinator Support Officer 60343 Lola Idris EHC Co-ordinator Support Officer 69585 Pauline Mayne EHC Co-ordinator Support Officer 61660 STATEMENT MANAGEMENT / MONITORING TEAM Antoinette Davis Management Monitoring Officer 61318 Ericka Alleyne Management Monitoring Officer 62617 Evette Niles Management Monitoring Officer 60319 Jaqueline Coker Management Monitoring Officer 62673 Linus Okere Management Monitoring Officer 69577 Maureen Etienne-Joseph Management Monitoring Officer 69582 Kathryn Lynch Support Officer 69570 EARLY YEARS ALLIANCE Early Years Alliance Manager Anthoney Simms Under 5's Autism Outreach Officer 07983 439401 Catherine Pearson Autism Outreach Worker 07710 026923 Jackie McDonald Home Support Officer 07506 681936 Tsotsoo Stephenson Home Support Officer 07791 794810 Tracy Imms Disability Register Co-ordinator 69140 TRANSPORT Kelly Avis Transport Manager 69684 Carlene Hutchinson Support Officer 69681 Ch lo e Mayers Transport Support Assistant 63190 SEND Newsletter Spring Term 2017 Page 6 of 10 Special Educational Needs and Disability Termly Newsletter 27 June 2012 Daphne George Transport Contract Monitoring Officer 69335 AGE 0 – 14 ALLOCATED SCHOOLS – Principle Officer Maureen Etienne Joseph 1-Maureen Etienne Joseph 2 - Linus Okere 3 - Antoinette Davis Elthelred Nursery Maytree Holmewood Nursery Triangle Effra Nursery Primary Primary Primary Allen Edwards Henry Fawcett Bonneville Elm Wood Loughborough Clapham Manor Herbert Morrison Julians Fenstanton Archbishop Sumner CE Primary and SCLN Hill Mead Base Granton Crown lane Primary and ASD Base Ashmole Henry Cavendish KPA Kingswood Iqra Primary St Andrews RC Macaulay CE Primary Jessop St Annes RC Glenbrook Stockwell St Helens RC Oasis Johanna Streatham Wells St Marys RC St John Divine Telferscot Vauxhall St Johns Angell Town CE The Livity School Wyvil St Leonards CE Little Hazels Aurora House St Lukes CE Heathbrook Corpus Christi St Marks CE Holy Trinity CE Durand St Saviours CE Immanuel and St Andrews CE Paxton St Stephens CE Jubilee Reay Sunnyhill Kings Ave Rosendale Primary Walnut Tree Walk Secondary Secondary Woodmansterne Archbishop Tenison Elm Court St Andrews CE City Heights SEND Newsletter Spring Term