Future SEND support to mainstream schools

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The Council wants to strengthen the ability, confidence and skills of mainstream schools to better support children and young people with SEND. To help achieve this, following a sufficiency review of Council SEND services, the Council is reshaping the way SEND support is provided to mainstream schools. The Outreach Service will no longer be commissioned and provided by special schools across the borough. Instead, the Council will establish a new central SEND Inclusion Support Service to increase the capacity to support mainstream schools.

The new SEND Inclusion Support Service will include a team of high-quality specialist teachers, working in collaboration with existing advisory and support teachers and support assistants in special schools across the borough, to enhance support for mainstream schools. The new service will also include Early years SEND support professionals and Educational Psychologists, and new posts including a new senior manager to lead the service, a Lead Practitioner for Resource Provision, three autism specialist teachers and four cognition and learning specialist teachers.

This service will deliver targeted interventions to support children and young people with SEND to access and engage with the mainstream curriculum, whilst also encouraging their participation in school activities to ensure a full and inclusive school experience. These interventions will include action plans for children and young people with SEND, as well as training sessions and mentoring support for mainstream schools. All mainstream schools in Cheshire West and Chester will have access to this provision.

This new service will provide greater resources for SEND support in mainstream schools and ensure improved quality monitoring of the service, as it will be delivered through a centralised service within the Council.

We want to ensure this new service will meet the needs of schools, children with SEND and parents/carers of children with SEND in mainstream schools, as well as wider stakeholders.

The Council wants to strengthen the ability, confidence and skills of mainstream schools to better support children and young people with SEND. To help achieve this, following a sufficiency review of Council SEND services, the Council is reshaping the way SEND support is provided to mainstream schools. The Outreach Service will no longer be commissioned and provided by special schools across the borough. Instead, the Council will establish a new central SEND Inclusion Support Service to increase the capacity to support mainstream schools.

The new SEND Inclusion Support Service will include a team of high-quality specialist teachers, working in collaboration with existing advisory and support teachers and support assistants in special schools across the borough, to enhance support for mainstream schools. The new service will also include Early years SEND support professionals and Educational Psychologists, and new posts including a new senior manager to lead the service, a Lead Practitioner for Resource Provision, three autism specialist teachers and four cognition and learning specialist teachers.

This service will deliver targeted interventions to support children and young people with SEND to access and engage with the mainstream curriculum, whilst also encouraging their participation in school activities to ensure a full and inclusive school experience. These interventions will include action plans for children and young people with SEND, as well as training sessions and mentoring support for mainstream schools. All mainstream schools in Cheshire West and Chester will have access to this provision.

This new service will provide greater resources for SEND support in mainstream schools and ensure improved quality monitoring of the service, as it will be delivered through a centralised service within the Council.

We want to ensure this new service will meet the needs of schools, children with SEND and parents/carers of children with SEND in mainstream schools, as well as wider stakeholders.