Age 16+, SEND Ofsted, LeDeR, Local Events & Lego 15th September 2018
Dear All Back to school… and back to busy! SEND Ofsted in Kingston is next week, see below for more information. In the meantime, our Post-16 event with Steve Broach is filling up – please book your place asap! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Coming Soon! The Post-16 Maze Kingston – SEND Ofsted next week What about Richmond and SEND Ofsted? nasen Awards 2018 Shortlist LeDeR - a joint response SEND Learning and Resources Library Autism Support in Kingston What does being Dyslexic mean? Energise holiday breaks at half-term Free Swimming Lessons More services from TAG Youth Club Barnes Film Festival and MeToo&Co – 30th September Teatime… a couple of videos…
1 Coming Soon! The Post-16 Maze …our event with Steve Broach You are warmly invited to come and listen to Steve Broach, a leading barrister and expert on health, education and social care for SEND. Steve is an articulate and entertaining presenter who will guide us through the maze that surrounds post 16 provision and will be able to cover the practical application of the law. Thursday 27 September 2018 10am – 3pm Clarendon Hall York House Richmond Road TW1 3AA More detail on the agenda to follow after the summer holidays – in the meantime, please book your place. The event is free to residents of Kingston & Richmond and booking is essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rights-of-16-to-25-year-olds-with-send-tickets46882380462?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
2 Kingston – SEND Ofsted next week Reminder to all Kingston Parents & Carers This inspection is to review how Kingston Borough meets its responsibilities to children and young people (from birth to age 25) who have special educational needs or disabilities (or both). The Inspection results will be a written report and not a grade like it is for schools. Depending on the inspection report local areas may need to produce an action plan on how they are going to improve. There may also be some follow-up inspection activity from either Ofsted or CQC.
How to contribute to the inspection By Tuesday 18th: Complete an online feedback to the inspection using their webinar tool This is a set questionnaire, and there is a space for comments. Click this link to go to the webinar survey: http://bit.ly/LASENDKingstonUponThames The webinar link will be available until 16:00 on Tuesday 18th September.
On Wednesday 19th: Attend a parent meeting with the inspection team Wednesday 19th September (next Wednesday) - 13:00 to 14:15 The King Charles Centre, Surbiton. KT5 9AL If you would like to attend, please could we ask you to let us know so that we can manage numbers and ensure that an appropriate room is arranged. NB: This meeting is for parents and the Ofsted team only. There will be no attendees from the Local Authority or Local Area attending.
By Friday 21st: E-mail If you are unable to attend the meeting or use the webinar tool for any reason, you may also email the inspection team with information on Lasend.support@ofsted.gov.uk before Friday 21st September.
What to expect on Wednesday 19th September. This is what Ofsted say… “The meeting with the inspection team on Wednesday will take the format of a discussion with the inspection team across the aspects of education, health and social care. There is no specific list of questions, but the team will look to gather parent and carer views on topics such as the local area's response to the reforms, and the three key questions: • how well does the local area identify needs • how well does the local area assess and meet need • how strong are outcomes Inspectors will try to make sure that all those present are given the opportunity to contribute.“
Ofsted’s letter Here is a link to the Ofsted letter which can be found on our website: http://www.sendfamilyvoices.org/news-2018
More information Hertfordshire parent/carer forum have produced a set of notes about what to expect. You can find it here: https://contact.org.uk/media/967335/cqc_and_ofsted_inspections_webinar_handout.docx
3 What about Richmond and SEND Ofsted? Richmond will be subject to a separate inspection at a date yet to be announced by Ofsted/CQC. Parents & Carers in Richmond can be reassured there will be a local area inspection in their borough too. This also means that Achieving for Children will be unique in going through the entire inspection twice!
4 nasen Awards 2018 Shortlist nasen = National Association of Special Educational Needs It’s great to see a local school, Stanley School in Teddington, making the short list! “Excellent Practice in Primary School Award Any schools who educate primary-aged children where they have improved outcomes for those children with SEND through their outstanding practice.” http://www.nasen.org.uk/about/awards/nasen-awards-2018-shortlist-.html
5 LeDeR - a joint response The acronym in the title may not make much sense, read on though; this is important as our young people become adults… “The Department of Health & Social Care, and NHS England have made a joint response to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) 2nd annual report. It accepts the recommendations and sets out a plan of action for each one. The actions will help address the inequality in life expectancy between people with learning disabilities and the wider population…” You can read the full reports here, both in full and an easy read version. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-learningdisabilities-mortality-review-leder-programme-2nd-annual-report
The 9 Recommendations Unusually, neither document summaries the recommendations (although all the recommendation are immediately followed by the actions). We have extracted them from the easy read guide and you can read them below. Of course, as families, there is nothing here that will surprise us! 1. Communication between health and social care organisations should be better. 2. Health and social care records should be improved so that important information can be shared between services, using a computer. 3. Health Action Plans should be shared between services, if the person says this is OK. 4. People with learning disabilities with health problems that will last a long time need a named person to help different professionals work well together with them. 5. Services must know if people need changes to the way things are usually done. These are called reasonable adjustments. They need to write this in people’s notes and check that people with learning disabilities can use services as easily as everybody else does.
6. Those providing support to people with learning disabilities must have training about the needs of people with learning disabilities. The training should be provided with people with learning disabilities and their families. 7. People need to understand more about the problems with infections in people with learning disabilities. 8. Professionals need to follow the Mental Capacity Act. Someone in each service needs to help make sure this happens. 9. Lots of people review deaths. We need to work together. We need to make sure that everyone is properly trained.
6 SEND Learning and Resources Library New on the Local Offer… “These pages contain resources and links primarily for teaching staff about a wide range of SEND topics. This is building on the "Learning Wall" of free useful resources and other training opportunities that was presented at the SEND Futures conference in June 2018.” https://www.afcinfo.org.uk/pages/local-offer/information-and-advice/send-learning-andresources-library
7 Autism Support in Kingston Understanding Autism Seminar “Understanding Autism’ is one of the Autism Seminars for Families which provides information and advice to parents and carers of children aged up to 11 who have received a recent diagnosis or are on the road to a diagnosis of autism.” Please contact the Jane Pidduck, the Seminar Facilitator below for more information. E: jpiddu2@grandavenue.kingston.sch.uk T: 020 8399 5344
Express CIC “We currently run 5 different support groups. We try to cover age groups and different issues over different times and days in the week so that hopefully there'll be one to suit you. We are also available in the office to drop in if you just need someone to talk to who gets it!” E: info@expresscic.org.uk T: 020 8390 4273 W: http://www.expresscic.org.uk/events.html
8 What does being Dyslexic mean? …from the British Dyslexia Association In this short film we hear different experiences of how people felt about finding out that they are dyslexic, and what being dyslexic means to them. (10.49 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI5MptWKD7E
9 Energise holiday breaks at half-term The groups are Energise for children aged between 5 - 8 years and new for October half term, Energise+ for children between 9 - 15 years old with Moderate and Severe Learning Disabilities. https://www.afcinfo.org.uk/pages/local-offer/information-and-advice/leisure-activities-andshort-breaks/short-breaks/short-breaks-commissioned-by-achieving-for-children
10 Free Swimming Lessons “Achieving for Children (AfC) is excited to offer some new block swimming lessons opportunities. These block lessons are available during October half term for 5 days from Monday 22nd October to Friday 26th October. Each session will last for 30 minutes and be on Monday to Friday every day at the same time. There is no cost to attend these sessions. The sessions are available for both Richmond and Kingston families and are being held in either Pools in the Park, Richmond or Teddington Pools and Fitness Centre.” https://www.afcinfo.org.uk/pages/local-offer/information-and-advice/leisure-activities-andshort-breaks/short-breaks/short-breaks-commissioned-by-achieving-for-children/swimming
11 More services from TAG Youth Club …for Disabled Young People, meets Fridays at Ham Youth Centre Junior Club: Alternate weeks, 5.30-7pm for children and young people aged between 8 and 15.
Youth Club: Meets weekly, 7.30-9.30pm for young people aged between 15 and 25. Nothing says it better than just seeing it; find out more about TAG from this short video (1.08 mins) Film: https://www.facebook.com/tagyouthclub.org/videos/287239778533849 W: http://www.tagyouthclub.org
12 Barnes Film Festival and MeToo&Co – 30th September “Me too & Co is delighted to announce that we have teamed up with Barnes Film Festival on 30th September for special events. There is a 10% discount with the reference METOOANDCO”
Q and A with Steven Moffat Interview with Doctor Who and Sherlock Producer who will also take questions from the audience. This event will include a BSL interpreter. Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/551003
Relaxed screening of Red Turtle The film has no dialogue. It received critical acclaim as “a beautifully animated effort whose deceptively simple story boasts narrative layers as richly absorbing as its lovely visuals” and was nominated for an Academy Award. It is a French, Dutch and Japanese co-production. The film has a PG rating. Here is the trailer: http://sonyclassics.com/theredturtle Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/532069
13 Teatime… a couple of videos… Kevan's adventure (3.05 mins) They left the wheelchair behind and showed a beautiful example of friendship (3.05 mins) https://www.facebook.com/Upworthy/videos/205351850116795
Lego Technic… life-size Bugatti… (8.09 mins) See how it was made - The Amazing Life-Size LEGO Technic version of the Bugatti Chiron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-RtJOfFlZU As ever, if you have any queries at all, please ask and we'll always do our best to find an answer.
With best wishes from all at SEND Family Voices T: 07469 746 145 E: sendfamilyvoices@outlook.com W: www.sendfamilyvoices.org