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 Team Around the Locality Cluster (TALC) pilot update
As part of the wider Additional and High Needs Transformation Programme, the Team Around the Locality Cluster (TALC) was piloted to support schools to provide additional help to those who need it, when they need it. The pilot finishes at Easter and we wanted to share with you our learning and the changes to TALC moving forward.
The TALC pilot was split into three areas:
- TALC: covering Gloucester
- TALC+: covering Cheltenham and offering a paper based multi-agency triage to establish the child’s needs in more detail before a wider multi-agency meeting
- TALC Universal: an offer to all schools not in the initial pilot area to make sure they could still access multi-agency advice and support.
Learning, changes and benefits
We’ve had 60 referrals and counting throughout the life of the pilot. The numbers were heavily impacted for much of the second half of the pilot by lockdown and schools taking a reduced number of pupils, however, we have received enough feedback and data to make beneficial changes to TALC moving forward.
- The operating model of TALC will transfer into a duel locality model at the beginning of term 5. This will align with many county council and county wide partners’ working practices and means the TALC operational group will have the benefit of a local agency response to local needs (the Universal model couldn’t offer this).The localities will be Cheltenham & Tewkesbury, Cotswold & Stroud, and Gloucester & The Forest of Dean.
- The TALC+ triage (which only ran in Cheltenham during the pilot) was very successful at making sure the child’s needs were fully understood and the most appropriate people were invited to the operational group to discuss possible interventions. Learning from this model will be implemented in a new triage across all areas of the county.
- Our aim is to keep the TALC model agile and develop it further with oversight from the multi-agency steering group, which is made up of partners including schools, the county council, NHS, police and youth justice. If you have any feedback about TALC you can email TALCfeedback@gloucestershire.gov.uk.
What this means for you
Schools that want to make a referral to TALC you will still do this in the same way here. On this webpage you’ll find tools to help you identify agencies that may be able to support you without TALC input, as well as the referral form to fill in if TALC is the best option.
It’s important to engage with an Early Help Co-ordinator (Early Help Team) or Outcome Co-ordinator (Education Inclusion Team) before you make a TALC referral. They should be your first point of contact if you haven’t engaged with any other support previously and will help schools explore early intervention methods.
If your first referral is submitted straight to TALC, it will most likely be signposted back to Early Help and Outcome Co-ordinators. Find contact details for Early Help Co-ordinators here.
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 Interview with Head Ben Jordan
Watch an interview with Ben Jordan, Head Teacher at Lakeside Primary, and James Saunders, Inclusion Strategy and Relationship Manager at Gloucestershire County Council and TALC Lead, as they discuss Ben’s experience engaging with TALC and the importance of early intervention.
Watch here.
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 Webinar: Monday 17 May at 10.00am
There are only a few places left for our second webinar, which will provide an overview of our Spend Redesign Project. We will focus on how the proposed new banded funding model will be used to support children with additional needs and how it can enable early intervention to support a child or young person.
Find out more and RSVP here.
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