Chairs and Vice Chairs meeting with senior officers and Lead Member

Thursday 16 October 2014

DCS update

Summer Outcomes

Michael Bracey, Service Director Education, Effectiveness and Participation

Early Years Foundation Stage Profile

Pupils in Milton Keynes showing a good level of development in the Early Years Foundation Stage

2014 – 62%

2013 – 49%

(National 2013 52%)

2014 Key Stage 1 Results

Pupils in Milton Keynes achieving KS1 level 2B or above:

Reading: 82% (National 81%)

No change on last year

Writing: 71% (National 70%)

+2% on last year

Maths: 81% (National 80%)

No change on last year

2014 Key Stage 2 Results

Pupils achieving KS2 level 4 or above

Reading, writing and maths: 79% (National 79%)

+2% on last year

Pupils achieving KS2 level 4B or above

Reading, writing and maths: 68% (National 67%)

+3% on last year

Implementation of national SEND reforms

Nicky Rayner, Service Director Children’s Social Care

September 2014 Progress and Priorities

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• Milton Keynes SEND Local Offer launched on 1st September 2014

• EHC Plan and processes in place

• Work beginning in converting statements and LDAs (learning difficulty assessments) to EHC plans

• Personal Budgets:- statement published on Local Offer- pilot project beginning to extend the personalisation approach and scope of what is currently available

September 2014 Progress andPriorities

• Inclusion and Education Health and Care (EHC) Panel: providing a streamlined, multi-agency decision making process to support all aspects of SEND

• Refreshed criteria for a statutory assessment to support referrals reflecting the four main areas of need:

- communication and interaction

- cognition and learning

- social, emotional and mental health

- sensory and /or physical needs

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September 2014 Progress and Priorities

Graduated approach to SEN replacing School Action and School Action +:

- Overview/guidelines developed

- ‘High needs top up funding’ reflective of EHC form

Participation and Consultation:- Feedback function on the Local Offer website- Regular meetings being established with a group of

parents- Further consultation work to be developed with children

and young people

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Conversion Strategy: Requirements

• All statements have to be converted to an EHC Plan by April 2018 – 1400 current statements in Milton Keynes

• All Learning Disability Assessments (LDAs) to be converted where requested and must be done for young people in college / training beyond September 2016 - approximately 500 current LDAs

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Conversion Strategy: Principles and Approach

• Conversions will happen as part of an ‘extended annual review’ process (Transition Review)

• Prioritise children and young people with a transition in the coming year

• Process needs to enable a person centered approach, ensuring that the plan is holistic and parents and young people are involved as equal partners and their voice is central to the process

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Useful Links

The Local Offer can be found at:

www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/sendlocaloffer

Feedback on the Local Offer to:

local.offer.contributions@milton-keynes.gov.uk

Guidance and forms supporting the new SEND processes can be found at:

http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/schools-and-lifelong-learning/special-educational-needs/special-educational-needs-team1/ehc-needs-assessments

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Safeguarding – trends and recent developments

Nicky Rayner, Service Director Children’s Social Care

Hub – Why?

• Research report - learning from serious case reviews

• “There is a wealth of literature that emphasises how difficult it is to achieve effective interagency working in practice and yet how fundamental it is to work with children and families...”

• Rose and Barnes (2008) Improving safeguarding practice, England: 2001 – 2003

Key messages

• The referral process into the Integrated Referral Hub is unchanged but….

• From September 2014, we are improving how we manage the child protection referrals (MKSCB levels of need 3-4)

MULTI-AGENCY SAFEGUARDING HUB (MASH)

What will a MASH achieve?

Faster, more coordinated decisions Proportionate responses based on risk assessment Better informed decisions Improved responses to children including earlier

intervention Closer partnership working, clearer accountability

and less duplication of effort Reduced inappropriate referrals and re-referrals –

right place right time

MASH Benefits and Linkage

Troubled families

Youth Justice

Offender management

Mental Health

Early interventiontrafficking

Missing persons

Gangs

Child sexual exploitation

MASH

MASH – How it works

Multi Agency Safeguarding HubA co-located team Professionals from Core Agencies – gathering

information and using professional skills to interpret

‘Fire walled’ sharing of information

MASH activity confidential. MASH team determines what is proportionate and relevant to share

Analyse and assess risk

Based on the fullest information picture from across services (including access to sensitive relevant intelligence)

Identify child protection needs and emerging harm

MASH provides an ‘information package’ and recommendation for further action

MASH – How it works

Referral process is unchanged but…• Inquiries reviewed by pre-MASH triage:

- Divert cases that are already open to Children’s Social Care

- Divert cases where child protection investigation is clearly indicated.

• MASH members access intelligence from their agencies -‘firewalled’ sensitive information

• MASH brings together information from all involved services• MASH interprets and determines what is appropriate to share• MASH delivers an ‘information package’ and recommendation

for action to Children’s Social Care and Police

MASH – What’s needed from partners?

1. To provide information in a timely way when your MASH team member contacts (based on the MASH risk assessment RAG timescale)

2. To have the confidence and trust in the MASH ‘firewall’ to engage fully and share appropriate sensitive information

3. To let us know if we are improving our service to children and families – help us to get it right.

School Funding

Michael Bracey, Service Director Education, Effectiveness and Participation

School Funding - Update

Consultation over formula factors and

growth funding arrangements

(8 July-26 September)

July October

Schools Forum consider

consultation (no significant changes

proposed) and budget planning

(16 October)

Lead Member takes decision to

maintain or change formula factors

(21 October)

Formula and provisional unit

rates submitted to EFA by 31 October

Pupil numbers confirmed and DSG allocation

announced (December)

November February

Schools Forum consider proposed budget (January)

Council approve budget (February)

Details of school budget shares

provided

Maintained schools onlyAcademies funded on academic year

School Funding - Update

£2,739K budget gap in 2015/16 if no action taken, caused by:

− Underlying in year deficit position linked to the MFG protection (£1,100K)− Additional costs to fund new post 16 responsibilities for high needs students (£900K)− Sharp rise in number and complexity of need of children in special schools (£800K)− The need to support the increase in school places (£1,700K)

Proposed reduction include:

− Changes to growth funding, but less radical that proposed (£580K)− Reduce delegated funding to primary schools to meet ‘pre statement’ costs (£119K)− Reductions to a range of high needs central budgets (£700K)− Reduce primary (£640K) and secondary AWPUs (£635K)

Likely impact is 1.5% reduction in primary and secondary budgets (compounded by pay awards and increased teachers superannuation contribution from September 2015)

School Funding - Update

Detailed information can be found at:

http://milton-keynes.cmis.uk.com/milton-keynes

Lead Member update

Next meetingTuesday 24 February 2015