Educational and training provision This document explains where children and young people with SEND can go for education or training in and around Northumberland. The SEND Code of Practice 2014 tells local authorities they must: set out an authority-wide description of the special educational and training provision it expects to be available in its area and outside its area for children and young people in its area who have SEN or disabilities from providers of relevant early years education, maintained schools, non-maintained special schools, pupil referral units, independent institutions approved under section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014, and the full range of post-16 providers. This includes information about the arrangements the local authority has for funding children and young people with SEN, including any agreements about how providers will use any budget that has been delegated to them. To find out the details of every provider go to the Local Offer homepage and click on the pre-school, school or post-16 sections. The following information is a summary required by law. What Northumberland expects to be available in 2016 Funding Type of Details of what is expected to be available in 2016 arrangements and provision agreements There are more than 300 pre-school providers in Northumberland. Free places are Early years They are a mixture of school, private and voluntary providers. funded by the local education: All three and four-year-olds are entitled to free high-quality early authority. If a child Childcare and education, starting in the term after a child’s third birthday until has high needs Nurseries compulsory school age. SEND the provider The current free entitlement is 15 hours a week (570 hours a year) can also apply for 1 for 38 weeks of the year. additional top-up Parents/carers of two-year-olds who meet a range of criteria are funding. entitled to the same amount of free high-quality early years Private places may education or childcare, from the term after a child’s second birthday also be able access until the end of the term in which they are three. high needs SEND Find out more at: funding in some http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/Children/Family/Childcare/Early- circumstances. years-education-%E2%80%93-free-entitlement.aspx Schools which are funded directly by the local authority. All schools and The list of Northumberland mainstream and special schools can be academies have an found at annual allocation of Maintained http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/Education/Schools.aspx place funding. schools. If a learner has high This list also includes academy schools, which are funded by the needs SEND they department for education. can also apply for For details of all schools in England visit the national EduBase additional top-up website. funding. Families may pay Non- for places privately. There is one non-maintained special school in Northumberland: maintained Sometimes a local Nunnykirk Hall School For Dyslexia, Nunnykirk Hall, Nunnykirk, special authority agrees to Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 4PB schools place learners with A type of EHC plans and For details of all schools in England, including non-maintained, visit independent accepts the national EduBase website. special school responsibility for all or some fees. Pupil referral A local authority provision for children who are not able to access Funded by the local units (PRU) school because of illness, exclusion or other reasons. authority and Northumberland has one PRU at Hepscott, Morpeth. schools. They are registered independent educational institution in England Independent which is specially organised to make special educational provision Families may pay institutions for places privately. or a special post-16 institution which is not a Further Education approved If a local authority College or a 16 to 19 Academy. under section agrees to place Northumberland has one section 41 provision: Cambian Dilston 41 of the learners with EHC College, Dilston Hall, Corbridge, Northumberland, NE45 5RJ Children and plans they usually Families Act For details of all schools and colleges in England, section 41, visit accept responsibility 2014 the national EduBase website or the national section 41 list at for all or some fees. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-special- 2 schools-and-colleges School 6th forms. All Northumberland Secondary and High Schools and Secondary- age special schools have a 6th form. Please contact the individual school for details of the suitability of courses for SEND learners. All providers have Further Education colleges within 15 miles of Northumberland: an annual allocation of place funding. Gateshead College NCG If a learner has high Newcastle College needs SEND they Newcastle Sixth Form College can also apply for Northumberland College additional top-up South Tyneside College funding. Post-16 Tyne Metropolitan College providers Local authorities are Special Post 16 Institutions within 15 miles of Northumberland: not funded to Groundwork South Tyneside and Newcastle support most adult Percy Hedley College learners. High Needs top-up For information about post-16 training opportunities or any of funding exceptions the above please contact the Northumberland Careers can sometimes be Guidance team at: made for learners https://www.connexions-tw.co.uk/help-in-northumberland with EHC plans. Telephone 01670 622 799. For details of all providers in England visit the national EduBase website. 12 things Northumberland expects every provider to have in place for SEND learners The following are expected of all providers within the SEND Code of Practice 2014 and by Northumberland County Council. Arrangements for: 1. Identifying the particular SEN of children and young people 2. Consulting with parents of disabled children with SEN and disabled young people with SEN or disabilities 3 3. Securing the services, provision and equipment required by children and young people with SEN or disabilities 4. Supporting disabled children and young people and those with SEN in moving between phases of education and preparing for adulthood and independent living and information about: 5. Approaches to teaching, adaptations to the curriculum and the learning environment for children and young people with SEN or disabilities and additional learning support for those with SEN 6. Enabling available facilities to be accessed by disabled children and young people and those with SEN (this should include ancillary aids and assistive technology, including Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)) 7. Assessing and reviewing pupils’ and students’ progress towards outcomes, including how providers work with parents and young people in doing so 8. Securing expertise among teachers, lecturers or other professionals to support children and young people with SEN or disabilities – this should include professional development to secure expertise at different levels: awareness (to give a basic awareness of a particular type of SEN, appropriate for all staff who will come into contact with a child or young person with that type of SEN) enhanced (how to adapt teaching and learning to meet a particular type of SEN, for early years practitioners, class and subject teachers/lecturers and teaching assistants working directly with the child or young person on a regular basis), and specialist (in-depth training about a particular type of SEN, for staff who will be advising and supporting those with enhanced-level skills and knowledge) 9. Assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of the education and training provision the local authority makes for children and young people with SEN or disabilities 10. Activities that are available to disabled children and young people and those with SEN, including physical activities and extra-curricular activities, and 4 11. Supporting the emotional, mental and social development of disabled children and young people and those with SEN (this should include extra pastoral support arrangements for listening to the views of pupils and students with SEN and measures to prevent bullying) 12. The above will include arrangements for supporting children who are looked after by the local authority and have SEN. Maintained schools and academies will publish their arrangements in their SEN Information Report or make information available on request. Independent schools, colleges, training providers and pre-school providers are not required by law to have an SEN Information Report. Instead the information should be made available on request in another suitable format. You can find out about provision available in neighbouring local authorities at these Local Offer websites: Cumbria http://search3.openobjects.com/kb5/cumbria/fsd/home.page North Tyneside http://www.northtyneside.gov.uk/browse-sub-cat.shtml?p_subjectCategory=1618 Newcastle http://www.newcastlefis.org.uk/kb5/newcastle/fsd/localoffer.page?familieschannel=3 Durham http://www.countydurhamfamilies.info/kb5/durham/fsd/localoffer.page?localofferchannel=0 Gateshead http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Education%20and%20Learning/Special-educational- needs/home.aspx Scottish Borders Council The SEND Code of Practice and Local Offer regulations do not apply in Scotland. However, you can find useful information at http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/info/886/additional_support_needs/136/does_your_child_nee d_additional_support 5 .