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
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