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April 2021
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Welcome from Jacky Forster, chair of the Cheshire East 0-25 SEND Partnership Board
Welcome to our latest newsletter from the Cheshire East 0-25 SEND Partnership.
Work is continuing at a pace to prepare for a revisit by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission following the inspection of SEND services across Cheshire East in 2018.
We have prepared a self-evaluation report, which was presented to the Cheshire East Council children and families scrutiny committee earlier this month. The report summarises our strengths, areas for development and key priorities for the next 12 months. You can read the report online here.
This along with a number of workshops held this week will inform the updated SEND Partnership strategy where we will coproduce the key priorities for the next 3 – 5 years.
Finally, I recognise that the latest lockdown has been very difficult for everyone, but we are now well into the spring season and Easter is nearly here. So, can I take this opportunity again to thank you for your hard work and commitment to improving services for children and young people with SEND.
Have a lovely Easter break, stay safe and take care.
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Celebrating autism for World Autism Awareness Week
This week is World Autism Awareness Week, organised by the National Autistic Society, whose vision is to transform lives and change attitudes to help create a society that works for autistic people.
The Cheshire East Autism Team or CEAT decided to use the awareness week as an opportunity to celebrate autism. They created a short video called ‘Autism is Awesome’.
Read more and watch the film here.
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Pathways to getting a life – our new Preparing for Adulthood Strategy
We are pleased to announce the launch of Cheshire East’s Preparing for Adulthood strategy. The multi-agency strategy highlights the challenges, our priorities and what we plan to do to ensure that young people with SEND in Cheshire East are prepared for adulthood, as early as possible, to achieve their individual aspirations.
Read more here.
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Supporting our interns virtually with Skills to Success
Lockdown has been a challenge for our supported internships team. However, we seized an opportunity to invite all of our interns across Cheshire East to take part in an online bespoke training programme called ‘Skills to Success’. This was particularly powerful training as it was delivered by a ‘real life’ employer, Engie, at a time when they were unable to go into work.
Read more here.
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Cheshire East becomes an Autism Education Trust Training Hub
We are delighted to announce that Cheshire East has become an Autism Education Trust (AET) training hub. Our aspiration as a training hub is to train and support schools, colleges and early years settings to listen and respond to the needs of children and young people with autism.
Cheshire East have acquired an ‘all phases’ licence which will allow us to deliver accredited training modules to early years settings, schools and post-16 colleges.
Read more here.
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High needs national funding formula consultation response
The Department of Education had an open consultation to seek a view on proposed initial changes to the High Needs National Funding Formula (NFF).
The NFF calculates funding allocations to local authorities for children and young people in England with complex special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or who require alternative provision.
Our response summarises how we believe funding should represent the characteristics and needs of our young people with SEND, which is consistent and fair across all local authorities.
Read more here.
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