Aiming High for Disabled Children

Kent County Council, working in partnership with Kent's NHS Primary Care Trusts, is hosting an event at the Ramada Hotel in Hollinbourne on the 24 October 2008 for all those organisations who are, or may wish to become, involved in the delivery of short break services for disabled children in the county.  For more information and a booking form. please see the documents attached below.

• Invite Letter and Booking Form
• Press Release: 23.09.08

Additional Documents

• Aiming High for Disabled Children - Short Breaks Transformation Change Programme
• Aiming High for Disabled Children Short Breaks Pathfinder Programme - Newsletter July 2008 (East Kent)
• Aiming High for Disabled Children Short Breaks Pathfinder Programme - Newsletter July 2008 (West Kent)      

New SENDIST (Special Educational Needs & Disability Tribunal) Rules

As from 1 November 2008 the SENDIST Rules will change.  Please follow the link below to view the changes.

• New SENDIST rules  

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Good Practice Guidance for Transition Added 30 June 2006    

• Foreword
• Good Practice Framework
• Early Years
• Primary School
• Secondary School
• Post 16/College/Higher Education

Funding and Support for Children and Young People with AEN or SEN: FAQs Added 03 May 2006

• Funding and Support for Children and Young People with AEN or SEN: FAQs

Kent LA's Accessibility Strategy 2007 - 2010  

This document below fulfils the responsibility of the LEA, under The SEN Code of Practice 2002 and section 28D of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995), to produce an accessibility strategy to show how the LEA will:  

•  Increase the extent to which all pupils with a disability can participate in the schools' curriculum;
• Improve the physical environment of the schools for the purpose of increasing the extent to which all pupils with a disability are able to take advantage of education and associated services provided or offered by the schools; and
• Improve the delivery to all pupils with a disability of information that is provided in writing for pupils who do not have a disability.
• Accessibility Strategy

KENT: Removing Barriers to Achievement

The Government's Strategy for SEN: Update on Progress 2005 - 2006 New: Added 9 January 2006 Please find below a copy of the DCSF report on Kent's progress on removing barriers to achievement during 2005 - 2006. The report covers:    

• Improving SEN advice and support to early years settings
• Funding to support early intervention and inclusive practice
• Reducing bureaucracy
• Strategic planning to promote effective inclusive learning
• Specialist SEN Advisory and Support Services
• Transforming special schools
• Specialist provision for children with low incidence needs
• Admissions, exclusions and pupils with BESD etc.
• KENT: Removing Barriers to Achievement: Update on Progress 2005 - 2006

Information about meeting Special Educational Needs at all stages of the SEN Code of Practice

This document is the LA's response to Statutory Instrument 2218, 2001 which requires the LA to publish its plans and arrangements for meeting special educational needs, to review its publication each and, where necessary, to amend it. The publication was las amended in 2005. Further amendments were required in 2007 to reflect new and on-going developments, primarily:    

• The continued implementation of the special school review
• The review of units and designations and emergence of cluster lead schools
• Further significant development of cluster arrangements
• The piloting of the Children's Trusts Pathfinders
• Preparatory work on the introduction of the Common Assessment Framework and Lead Professional role
• The implementation of the 14-19 strategy

Click on the document link to download: Information on Meeting SEN at all stages of the SEN Code of Practice

• Letter informing Headteachers about the further application process for Schools' Contingency Fund  
• Guidance Notes for Contingency Funding
• Contingency Criteria
• Contingency Form VSCN2 (Very Severe & Complex Needs)
• Headteacher Panel Form     

Additional Guidance is now available for schools completing the SEN PLASC return

• Additional Guidance for Schools on SEN PLASC Return

Contacts: If you have enquiries about this guidance, please contact Diana Robinson, Senior Adviser AEN, on 01233 898589, or e-mail diana.robinson@kent.gov.uk 

Tribunals

Tribunals - by Julie Care - Extract from The SENCO Handbook
First published in The Senco Handbook, Optimus Publishing. To order, please call 0845 450 6405