The document discusses Surrey SEND Pathfinder's early learning trial of a key working approach. It states that 25 families are currently involved in the trial with 4 interested in personal budgets. It also outlines the key worker's functions in the trial's process such as forming relationships with families, coordinating assessments, supporting planning and facilitating meetings. Finally, it mentions some of the training provided to support practitioners in the key worker role such as early support and person-centered planning.

1. Surrey SEND Pathfinder:
Early Learning
Susie Campbell, Surrey SEND Pathfinder
Manager

2. • Families recruited for trial. We are in ongoing
contact or actively working with 25 families with
another 6-10 at the point of initial contact. Of
these, 4 have so far indicated an interest in trialling a
personal budget.
• A range of different practitioners have agreed to trial
key working approaches and are undertaking training
whilst starting work with the families.

3. Listen and
understand
This is where we
collect together all
the assessment
information about
the young person
Agree plan and
allocate
This is the action planning
stage
Telling
your story
This is all about the
young person and
their family and
where they tell their
story
Surrey SEND
Pathfinder Process
What has been trialled?

4. Listen and
understand
This is where we
collect together all
the assessment
information about
the young person
Agree plan and
allocate
This is the action planning
stage
Telling your story
This is all about the young
person and their family and
where they tell their story
It's where they say what their
interests, passions and strengths are.
They may also want to say what
challenges they have had to face. This
is also where they describe their longer
term aspirations and what outcomes
they want to achieve by their next main
transition stage as well as what they
are aiming for at that point.

5. Listen and
understand
This is where we collect
together all the assessment
information about the young
person
There may be a multi-agency meeting
at this stage. The key worker will
support the family by co-ordinating
this meeting and supporting the young
person and family at the meeting
itself. The meeting may be used to
commission further assessments and
to understand what challenges the
young
person is facing in trying to
achieve their aspirations.
Agree plan and
allocate
This is the action planning
stage
Telling
your story
This is all about
the young person
and their family
and where they
tell their story

6. Listen and
understand
This is where we
collect together all
the assessment
information about
the young person
Agree plan and allocate
This is the action planning stage
The key worker will support the family in a person-
centred planning process which will focus on the
immediate outcomes that need to be achieved to
help the young person progress towards their
goals. Part of the planning process will including
agreeing a review plan so that different parts of the
plan can be reviewed as quickly as needed. There
will be a multi-agency Panel to agree the resources
to support the plan.
Telling
your story
This is all about
the young person
and their family
and where they
tell their story

7. Learning about Key Working Functions
For the purposes of the Surrey Trial, practitioners who have
worked as Single Plan key workers so far are:
• Early Support key workers
• Social Workers (CWD team)
• Family Support Workers (CWD team)
• EPs
• Pathway Advisers
• PSSS teachers
• SENCo
• Disability Challengers Support worker (voluntary sector
• Transition workers
• SILC

8. • Form a supportive and boundaried relationship with
the young person and family.
• Support the construction of a holistic and
personalised picture of the young person's
strengths, interests and needs and the family's
experience.
The 'tasks' required of a Single Plan key worker
by the Surrey trial process are as follows:

9. • Focus on the longer term outcomes that the plan is
aiming to support but with sensitivity to the family's own
need to process with what may be difficult or painful
information. (This may be very different depending on the
age and the circumstances of a child/young person 0-25)
• Identify and co-ordinate a team around the child (TAC)
and remain the single point of contact for the family
through the next steps of the process.
• Lead and co-ordinate the TAC to audit existing
assessment information and commission further
assessment in what may be an iterative process.

10. • Support the young person and family to attend these
meetings (or represent them and to understand the
assessment information as it is collected.
• Support the young person and family to complete the
RAS and establish an indicative budget if
appropriate.
• Lead and support the young person and family
through a person-centred planning process focused
on outcomes and next steps.

11. • Liaise with key members of the TAC to assist in the
formulation of these outcomes (e.g the EP as a
member of the TAC would need to advise on the
formulation of appropriate educational outcomes)
• Undertake any necessary brokerage prior to the plan
going through its final decision making process.
• Support the young person and family to attend Panel
or represent them.

12. • Agree and co-ordinate a review process.
• Signpost the young person and family to appropriate
mediation or advocacy services if appropriate.
• These tasks could be delegated to another
practitioner but the Single Plan key worker needs to
remain the single point of contact for the family.

13. Training for Key working within Surrey
Pathfinder:
Not a role but a set of functions – supported by
some of the following:
• Early Support National Training
• Person-centred Planning
• Outcome-focussed Planning