My Plan is a simple process and tool that sets out the need of the child and family and what support can be provided.
My Plan Plus is undertaken when the child's needs are more complex and require a multi-agency assessment of need to understand the range, depth or significance of those needs which may require a more intensive response.
Early Help Assessment - where it is considered a child or young person may have additional needs, with the consent of the child, young person and their parents/carers, practitioners undertake an Early Help Assessment.
A Team Around the Family (TAF) meeting should take place when a concern identifies the need for a multi-agency response. It provides the opportunity to discuss how additional needs can be met.
Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) From September 2014, Government reforms mean that everyone aged 0 to 25 with SEN (who has been through the statutory assessment process) could have a single plan setting out all the support they will receive from education, health and social care and who is responsible for each part for the plan. This EHC Plan will replace the statement of Special Educational Needs.
The Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership (GSCP) has a statutory function to ensure the three, Health, Police & safeguarding partners can work together to safeguard children.
Child in Need (CiN) Under Section 17 (10) of the Children Act 1989, a child is a Child in Need if: - He/she is unlikely to achieve or maintain, or have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining, a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision for him/her of services by a local authority; - His/her health or development is likely to be significantly impaired, or further impaired, without the provision for him/her of such services; or - He/she is disabled.
Child Protection (CP) - part of safeguarding and promoting welfare. This refers to the activity that is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering, or are likely to suffer, significant harm.
A Personal Education Plan (PEP) is part of a young person's care plan. It's a record of how they're doing in their education. It also shows how the professionals working with the young person are supporting them in their education.
Special Educational Needs (SEN) - according to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice:0-25 years (2014):‘A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she: - Has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or - Has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions’.
The Advisory Teaching Service (ATS) works with schools to provide specialist support to enable children with additional needs to reach their full potential.
Education Psychology Service (EPS) work with parents/carers, schools, and other professionals to promote young people's learning and development.
Collaborative Education Inclusion Forums (CEIF) - under section 10 of the Children Act 2004 local authorities have a responsibility to promote inter-agency co-operation to improve the welfare of all children.
Disabled Children and Young Peoples Service (DCYPS) - children with the most complex and challenging needs arising from their disability will receive help from our specialist DCYPS.
Early Help– Advice, Guidance and Support (AGS) information for families and practitioners.
Early Help – Family Support Work (FSW) is a way of working with families so they can better manage problems that they may be going through.
Early Help Coordinator (EHCO) offer advice, guidance and support to practitioners working with children and families around all aspects of using the Graduated Pathway.
Education Inclusion Service (EIS) carries out the local authority's statutory duties relating to attendance, exclusion, child employment and children in entertainment, children missing education and children unable to attend school because of their medical needs.
The Early Years (EY) service offers a range of support, advice and interventions to all Early Years Providers which enables children with Special Educational Needs or Disability to enjoy learning make progress and access a local provision. Support is offered through a tiered Level of Intervention and will be dependent on a completed ‘request for support’ referral form
SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound)
