Wednesday 24 November 2016
Peer Review feedback - day 2
Yesterday saw the Peer Review
team visiting a range of education settings across the county, as well as
observing an EHCP panel meeting.
The team really enjoyed their
visits to the schools, colleges and early years settings. Thank you to
everyone involved in yesterday's visits, for providing them with such a
positive experience.
The Peer Review team were very
positive about the work and the child-centred practice they saw in all the
settings they visited yesterday. They were impressed with
the creativity and felt there was a strong capacity for innovation.
They said they also received positive feedback about the use of our
graduated response tool.
The team have also started to
identify some areas that we can develop, and these included providing more
consistency across Devon, especially in relation to access to health assessment
and therapy.
The team said it was good to
see that innovation extended to post-16 work in areas such as Direct
Payments for courses to enhance life skills; and for early years to provide
support for parents to navigate the Local Offer website. We could,
however, provide more clarity around the framework linked to use of our
Holistix and My Plans tools.
They recognised a real emphasis
on community, and how services working together support each other, to the
extent that they filled gaps where other provision is not available.
The team noted the strong
legacy of programmes rolled out by the local authority - for example Thrive -
which schools continue to use. They paid tribute to the enthusiasm across
the county to engage in co construction to ensure the right solutions for
children and young people with SEND.
Today's itinerary
Today's meetings involved a Young People's focus group; Early
Years leads; Careers South West, Health Commissioners and Providers and
attending the SEND Improvement Board.
Coming up...
Tomorrow we will hear more detailed feedback from the Peer
Review team in their final presentation, initially with Chief Officers and at an
open session in the Coaver Club conference room, from 12 noon - 1.30, to which
everyone is welcome.
We will be sending out a
summary of this feedback early next week, along with details on the next steps
for SEND.
Feedback
We will keep you
updated through this bulletin. If you have any feedback on the Peer
Review please e-mail childrenfamiliesalliance-mailbox@devon.gov.uk
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