Personalisation and Post 16 in Manchester

Julie Hicklin Manchester City Council

Option of a Personal Budget

Integrated assessment and planning

Joint commissioning

Better disagreement resolution processes

The SEND reforms: putting children and young people at the centre

0-25 Children and young people with SEND

and families

Where disagreements happen, they can be resolved early and amicably, with the option of a Tribunal for those that need it

Children, young people and parents understand a joined up system, designed around their needs

Having friends

Outcomes

Employment prospects

Positive Wellbeing

Good qualifications

Making their

views heard

Local offer

Enablers

Education Health and Care Plan is holistic, co-produced, focused on outcomes, and is delivered

Extending choice and control over their support.

Information, advice and

support

Opportunities provided by the reforms

• 0-25 – more joined up for young people and families

• Focus on outcomes• Personalisation• High needs funding as an ‘enabler’• Co-production – voice of young people and

families informing everything we do• Moving from dependence to independence

Preparation for adulthood outcomes and key themes

Support needs to start early and should centre around the child or young person’s own aspirations, interests and needs to enable children and young people to achieve their ambitions in relation to: • Higher education and/or employment - including exploring different employment options, such as support for becoming self-employed and help from supported employment agencies; • Independent living - enabling people to have choice and control over their lives and the support they receive and their accommodation and living arrangements, including supported living;• Participating in society - including having friends and supportive relationships, and participating in, and contributing to, the local community; and• Being as healthy as possible in adult life.

Reform in practice: Preparation for adulthood

Manchester’s Education, Health and Care plan

SECTION A All about me Personal details.The views, interests, aspirations and history of the child or young person and their parents/carers.How the child/young person communicates and makes decisions.

SECTION B My special educational needs

Summary of identified educational, health and care needs based on information received from child / young person, family / carer, school / setting / colleges, Educational Psychologist, health, care and other professionals.

SECTION C My health needs

SECTION D My care needs

SECTION E My outcomes Agreed outcomes covering education, health and care.Transition plans for key stages such as changing schools and preparation for adulthood.Arrangements for monitoring and reviewing outcomes.

SECTION F Educational provision to meet my needs

Resources and provision to meet identified needs and support achievement of outcomes.

SECTION G Health provision to meet my needs

SECTION H Care provision to meet my needs

SECTION I Placement Name and type of setting, school, or further education provision.

SECTION J Personal Budgets Information on any personal budget which willbe used to secure the provision in the EHC Plan and meet the special educational needs and outcomes.

SECTION K Advice and information

Details of who has contributed to theassessment and EHC Plan. Advice and information gathered during the statutory assessment.

Changes for colleges from September

• Transfers – LDAs – EHC plans by 1st September 2016

• New requests for EHC plans• Consultation/naming process – 15 days• Earlier assessments/offers - 31st May• Person centred reviews

• Local Offer• Requests for personal budgets

Requesting a personal budgetPersonal budget • An amount of money identified by LA to deliver all or

some of the provision set out in an Education, Health and Care plan.

• Young people and parents of children have a right to ask the Local Authority to prepare a personal budget when a draft EHC plan is being prepared.

• Personal budgets should be based on outcomes set out in the EHCP

Requesting a personal budget• The provision to be delivered through a personal budget will be set out as

part of the provision specified in the EHC plan. • Can include funding from education, health and social care. • Local authority must seek agreement with a school where an EHC plan

sets out any provision to be delivered on school premises through a direct payment .

Funding Streams include:• Education High Needs Funding• Social Care budgets – Children’s & Adults including Short

Breaks• Looked After Children/Care Leaver• SEN transport

• Health including continuing healthcare

• Equipment • DWP – DLA, Personal Independence payment• Housing• And ‘Real Wealth’

Working differently in Manchester

• New process for high needs funding from 2013 – across Greater Manchester

• Anticipated SEND reforms – outcome focused

• More Supported Internships – including in schools

• ‘Good week’

• Individualised programmes

Objectives related to

Expected outcome (at the end of the year)

Provision to meet objectives

Local Offer support

Additional Support required

Education & Learning

Work Skills

Communication

Personal, Social & Emotional

Skills for Independent Living

Other

Greater Manchester Post 16 High Needs Funding application

Student’s long term aspirations/outcomes:

£6000

Personalisation examples - 1

H is 20. She wanted to attend both mainstream and specialist colleges and do work experience. The LA high needs panel agreed an individual package personalised to the outcomes in her plan.

She also has a social care individual budget, which she uses to pay a personal assistant to accompany her to her paid job (1 day a month)

and to leisure activities.

Personalisation examples - 2

R is 18 and missed the chance of doing her GCSEs at

school due to health problems.

She is now studying English and Maths GCSEs part

time at college and has home tuition for 3 more

GCSEs at times that allows her to continue with her

therapies.

She plans to study A levels next year and go to

university.

What do I want?

Ask me!What do I

need?

Personalisation examples - 3

Lancasterian School took a whole school approach to the reforms and wanted to improve post 16 progression for students.

They worked with students, parents, a college and commissioners to create a new programme for 6 students.

2 days at college 2 days at school I day independent living skills and travel training Up to £500 per student personal budget – to meet individual educational outcome

Personalisation examples - 4John didn’t enjoy school and didn’t attend much. He

did not want to college – he could not work with

groups of other teenagers. The only thing that

interested him was getting a job, but his lack of

qualifications and work skills meant this was not an

option.

His Connexions adviser and school worked together to

devise a post 16 programme of work tasters –

delivered by a supported employment job coach and a

mentor.

The Local Offer – and market shaping The reforms give us a great

opportunity to commission for outcomes

The Local Offer can play a role in shaping the market

Feedback will highlight gaps and what’s not working

Providers using Local Offer with young people and families to put together a ‘good week’ – including mix of education / employment / volunteering / leisure/ independent living skills / meeting friends

Employment - What works

•Raising aspirations from early on •Meaningful work experience including Saturday and holiday jobs •Families who believe employment is positive and possible •Person centred outcome focused planning that includes employment•Employment focused curriculum including travel training •Vocational profiling•Post 16 provision that leads to employment - supported internships, traineeships, apprenticeships, self employment•Supported employment whilst at school or college

What will success look like?Positive outcomes for young people and their families

Positive experience of the system for young people and their families

Effective preparation for adulthood

• Improved attainment and progression.

• Increase in the percentage of school and college leavers going to, or staying in, Education, Employment and Training.

• Young people and their families know what support there is and how to access it.

• Planned and well managed transition at key points – from school to college and from college into adulthood.

• Parents and young people get the right support at the right time and feel that they are listened to and in control of their choices, decisions and opportunities.

• Conversations about future aspirations start early – at least by Year 9 Review.

• Increase in programmes to help employability – e.g. apprenticeships, traineeships and supported internships.

• More young people able to live independently and participate fully in the community.

Your ideas

Questions?

j.hicklin@manchester.gov.uk