Lucy Crawford

SEN Changes – Summer 2014

Browser change

Layout has been tidied.

New SEN Statuses – England only

New SEN Statuses added:• E (EHCP) – Education, Health and Care

• K – SEN Support

When you will be able to use the new statuses

• The new statuses are available in the Summer release, but should be used from September 2014

When you will need to transfer over the old statuses to the new statuses

K – SEN Support

• Schools will have until the end of the Summer term in 2015 to move their existing pupils from School Action and School Action Plus over to the new K – SEN Support

• Schools will have until the Spring 2015 Census to move new pupils from School Action and School Action Plus to SEN Support

When you will need to transfer over the old statuses to the new statuses

E – EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan)

• During the transitional period (at least for the 2014 to 2015 academic year), schools will be able to record pupils/students as having either a Statement or an EHCP.

• Schools can record pupils as having either a Statement or an EHCP as of 1st September 2014 (but not both)

Can I bulk update statuses?

• SIMS does allow bulk update of statuses

• The current advice would suggest not to use bulk update, but rather to change the status of pupils/students at the point of review (which happens regularly enough to have occurred for students before the timescales mentioned).

• This will allow the level of provision (recorded as status) for each child to be reviewed, rather than simply changed, or transferred.

New SEN Statuses

BESD Still Historical

• BESD is visible for historical need types, but is not available to select as a new need.

• BESD is still available in the reporting dictionary if you click ‘show all’

Transitioning away from BESD

• BESD will not end automatically in SIMS• BESD will not be transferred over to SEMH in SIMS (as

BESD and SEMH do not mean the same thing)

• There is no bulk update for SEN Needs in SIMS

• It is suggested that when the child with SEN has a review, that the SEN needs are reviewed (as would be normal practice) and that the BESD need type is changed at that point.

How to record changes from BESD

• Find SEN Student• Open up panel 3• Open up BESD need type by double clicking on the

record, or clicking on Open

How to record changes from BESD

• Once you’ve opened the need, add an end date, press OK, then press Save at the top of the Student/Pupil SEN Details Screen.

Where you can see the change from BESD

• In the Change Log:

Where you can see the change from BESD

• In the Needs History:

How to find out which students have a BESD Need Type

You can create a report in the Reporting Dictionary to find which students have a BESD Need Type:

1) Go to Reports | Design Report | New

2) Select to focus the report on Students/Pupils

3) Select the Students/Pupils to be On Roll

How to find out which students have a BESD Need Type

4) Select the data fields as shown below:

5) Click on this button:

How to find out which students have a BESD Need Type

6) Click on New at the bottom of the screen:

7) Select the following options:

How to find out which students have a BESD Need Type

8) Select AND

9) Select the below option:

How to find out which students have a BESD Need Type

10) Un-tick ‘Include Records with no such’

11) Click Next until you get to this option:

How to find out which students have a BESD Need Type

12) Your report definition should look like this:

13) Click Preview

How to find out which students have a BESD Need Type

14) Your report will look like this:

New SEN Need Types

SEN need types have been added:• Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)• SEN Support but no Specialist Assessment of Need (NSA)

New SEN Need Types

• The new SEN Need Types are available in the Summer release, but will only be statutory as of 1st September 2014

• You can select the new SEN Need Types when adding a new need, or amending an existing need.

• It is suggested that if the need has changed, that the need is ended, and a new one created.

Additional Support Fields Relabelled

• These dropdown fields are only statutory for Wales. • The set of fields has had a title of ‘Additional Support’

added.

SEN Setup Screen Changed – Additional tick box for Hide Additional Support (England only)

For schools in England, the ability to hide the dropdown fields now labelled ‘Additional Support’ has been added to the SEN Setup area, which has been combined into one new panel for ‘SEN Settings’.

New EHCP Panel (England only)

New EHCP Panel

EHCP Panel