ISEND Early Intervention

Who are we?

The Front Door to ISEND

Assessment and Planning Provider Services

ConversionsEHC and SEN CaseworkEducation Psychology

Statutory Work Early Intervention

Education Psychology SupportBehaviour and Attendance SupportEarly Years SupportLanguage and Learning SupportASD Support

Community Resources

ProvisionIntervention and Support

The new ‘Front Door’ Concept

A combination of systematic planning discussions with a “front door” consultation where immediate support is needed

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• Termly advice and planning conversations with schools and settings

• Part of the core offer• Focusing on all SEND support and

services• Supporting whole-school planning,

building capacity, and providing advice

• All requests for additional support, including statutory, to come through the “front door” initially

• Initial consultation discussion• Triage process to decide on most

appropriate next steps – e.g. core support, traded support, statutory assessment

• Information gathered would support statutory assessment process, if the decision was taken to move to that

Core Support

Support for whole-school, capacity-building and planningStatutory support for individual pupils where required

•Building capacity in schools to meet pupils’ additional needs•Support for school development planning

•Strategic planning conversations and challenge•Cross-service support and advice

•Support for individual pupils based on statutory requirements

Traded SupportAdditional whole-school or pupil level support

•Additional support to meet individual pupils’ needs•Commissioned by individual schools or groups and

Developed in consultation with school and college leaders

EPS Current Service DeliveryEP Service

Traded through SLA For ALL settings

Yearly meeting to problem solve and prioritise early intervention e.g.•Assessment to inform SBP•Person centred planning with parents/carers•Interventions •Training•Whole school development

Statutory Input

Stat. assess & AR

Early years ASD

SEND & Tribunal

Health

ESBAS Current Service Delivery

• Attendance Support• Behaviour Support including Adviser Observation

and Assessment• Training around Attendance or Behaviour

Management• Antibullying Support including group work• Family Keywork for Troubled Families

Currently using a referral system via local partnerships or directly through Team Leaders. Support is priced in units whether traded or statutory, dependent on thresholds.

LLSS Current Service Delivery

1. Traded through SLA Planning meeting

2. Centralised training Available to all schools

3. Core work Language focus

4. Statutory input Complex cases

ASD Current Service Delivery• Statutory complex case work to individual children and young people with ASD may come from the SEN

department or from the Educational Psychology Service. It is currently free at the point of delivery.

• Individual support to children and young people with ASD is prioritised through the multi-agency ASD Monitoring & Support Groups and may be requested by parents, schools or pediatricians. This may be delivered by South Downs, Torfield School or Peacehaven Heights outreach.https://czone.eastsussex.gov.uk/specialneeds/autism/Pages/main.aspx. www.eastsussex.gov.uk/autism

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ASD Current Service Delivery (cont)

• Support to, and development of, ASD resourced-based provisions within schools and to short breaks/residential settings.

• A diagnosis of ASD is required but a child or young person does not need to have a Statement of SEN.

New Early Intervention TeamProposed structure of service delivery

includes ‘Traded / Statutory / Core’ with a proposed new access route to services.

• What do you value most in current models of delivery?

• What do you value least in current models of delivery?

• What would you like to see us do differently?• What would you like to see beyond the ‘Front

Door’?