www.portsmouth.gov.uk

Termly Provider Briefing

Inclusion Focus - October 2015

Aim of this session

By the end of this session you will:

• Have an awareness of changes to national

policy and guidance and new initiatives

relating to inclusion

• Have an awareness of changes to citywide

policy and guidance and new initiatives

relating to inclusion

• Have an awareness of safeguarding

updates, news and key messages

Inclusion - English as an

additional language (EAL)

• EMAS audits

• Referral form - pre-school children/one off

support for younger children and families

Inclusion - Looked After

Children and Personal

Education Plans (PEPs)

• Early Years Pupil Premium for Looked

After Children

• EYAT team support for PEP processes

Universal SEND offer

• SEND audit submission by settings

• Education, Health Care Plans (EHCP’s)

support from the EYAT team

• Hampshire children in Portsmouth settings

and Portsmouth children in Hampshire

settings

National Children’s Bureau

What Early Years providers need to know

about supporting young children with

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

and their families

www.ncb.org.uk/media/1208733/what_early_years

_providers_need_to_know.pdf

Education Health Care Plans

(EHCP)

EHC Needs Assessment requests will

ordinarily be made by 28th February.

Requests made after this time are highly

unlikely to be completed within the

academic year.

Further SEND workshops

• Where the wild things are - practical

strategies to support behaviour (January 2016)

• How to understand and manage young

children’s behaviour (February 2016)

• Basic introduction to the SEND Code of

Practice (January and March 2016)

• Able and Amazing - challenging more able

children (April 2016)

Revised Inclusion Pathway

Making referrals

Follow the pathway:

• Referral forms available on PCC website

www.portsmouth.gov.uk and search

‘resources for early years setting

professionals’

• Referring to the Early Years Panel

Making referrals

Portsmouth Early Years Panel

Goal: By the time every child starts school,

their needs have been identified and support

is in place.

Objectives

• Provide single point of contact

• Coordinate assessments

• Plan support and provision

• Monitor progress

• Smooth transition to school

Membership

• Principal Educational Psychologist and Chair of

the Panel

• Speciality doctor in community paediatrics

• Portage Service Manager

• Early Years Advisory Teacher

• Health Visitor Manager

• Speech and Language Therapy Service

representative

• Educational Officer for Special Educational Needs

• Head Teacher of the Willows Nursery School

Referrals

• Informed parental consent is

always needed - a parent

information leaflet makes up

part of the form.

• Please complete all sections

of the form to speed up

processes

The ASQ developmental

assessment

• All referrals to the EYP need to be discussed with the child’s health visitor.

• An up-to-date ‘Ages and Stages’ (ASQ) questionnaire must be submitted with the referral

• The Panel needs the ASQ, in full, to make decisions

• Send it with the referral form or make it clear when we can expect it

Additional information

• EYP meets on the first Tuesday of each

month in term time

• The cut off date for receiving information for

the next panel meeting is the Thursday 10

days before.

• Dates and deadlines save time in the long run

• Handwritten forms can pose some problems!

• Specific requests can be helpful but may not

necessarily be acted on

• The EYP is not the lead professional

Portsmouth Local Offer

Website address:

www.portsmouthlocaloffer.org

Changes to Ofsted

inspections from Sept 2015

www.gov.uk/guidance/changes-to-education-

inspection-from-september-2015

Inspection Judgements

Inspectors will make graded judgements on the

following areas, using the four-point scale:

• Effectiveness of leadership and management

• Quality of teaching, learning and assessment

• Personal development, behaviour and

welfare

• Outcomes for children and learners.

Prevent Duty

• Prevent duty guidance

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445977/3799_Re

vised_Prevent_Duty_Guidance__England_Wales_V2-Interactive.pdf

• Prevent Duty Departmental Advice

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/439598/prevent-

duty-departmental-advice-v6.pdf

• Portsmouth City Council Prevent Coordinator

Charlie.pericleous@portsmouthhcc.gov.uk

• Safer Portsmouth Partnership

www.saferportsmouth.org.uk/prevent-duty/prevent-training

Four Themes of Prevent Duty

• Risk assessment

• Working in partnership

• Staff training

• IT policies

Building children’s resilience to radicalisation

through promoting British values

www.foundationyears.org.uk/2015/03/funda

mental-british-values-in-the-early-years

Portsmouth Safeguarding

Childrens Board Updates

• MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub)

goes live on 2 Nov and replaces JAT

• SAF (single assessment framework)

replaces CAF

• Useful tools have been added to the

Portsmouth Safeguarding board website for

professionals www.portsmouthscb.org.uk

Additional Safeguarding tools

Problematic sexualised behaviour -

‘traffic light tool’ guidance

www.brook.org.uk/old/index.php/guidance

www.brook.org.uk/old/index.php/traffic-light-

tool-0-to-5

Early Support Development

Programme

• Programme can be accessed on the

Portsmouth City Council website

www.portsmouth.gov.uk -

search ‘working with children’

• Final Launch Event - Thursday 22 October

2015, Somerstown Children Centre 10.30am-

12.30pm

• To book email

EarlyYearsTrainingAdmin@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Early Support Development

Programme

• Supply two email addresses to EarlyYearsTrainingAdmin@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

• Return original direct debit mandate to

local children centre or by post to:

Tara Sutton

Workforce Development Officer

Early Support, Floor 2, Core 6. Civic Offices

• Receive a user name and password to log

into portal

Early Support Conference

Hold the date!

Saturday 23rd January 2016

Email information

• CDT.enquiries@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Email for all enquiries to a Childcare Development

Officer (CDO)

• EYAT.enquiries@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Email for all enquiries to an Early Years Advisory

Teacher (EYAT)

• EarlyYearsTrainingAdmin@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Email for all enquiries to a member of the training team

and for general enquiries for the Development

Programme

Next Termly Provider Briefing

January 6th 2016