Developing the local offer for

mainstream schools- Children’s Therapy Team

The Children’s Therapy team

Physiotherapy Occupational therapy Speech and language therapy

Our ambition

What the evidence says works and is best practice

What we have the

capacity to deliver

What people want

Being part of the jigsaw

The process of developing the offerSelf reflection and looking at feedback from service users

Looking at the evidence and best practice

elsewhere

Generating proposals to

improve the service and consulting on

them

Modifying proposals in the

light of comments

Setting out the offer and delivering

it

Our proposals...

Have one therapy plan for children with complex needs

Spend most of our time with the children who have the highest level of need

Empower parents and schools to support children with medium and low level needs as much as possible

Develop a guide to partnership working

The importance of involving families in service designJOHARI’SWINDOW

Known to the team

YES NO

Known to others

YES What staff and services users all know

What service users know but the team doesn’t

NO What the team knows about itself – but is not obvious to others

What is not known or understood by anyone

SpecialistAn integrated therapy planA ‘high level need’ package

Targeted Training and ‘buy in’ packages

Support for practitioner networksResources for others to use

One off assessment and adviceOne off block of intervention

UniversalTraining and buy in packages

Support for ‘best practice’ across the children’s workforce

The offer

Delivering the offer

Where next?

Using the same process to refine the local offer in special schools and for pre-school children

Embedding the changes to our mainstream schools service

Developing more ways to involve parents, children and young people in service planning

Thanks for listening