This slide shows you Part 1 of a two part presentation introducing you to the schools project. Part 1 looks at the Early Support approach

1. The Early Support Schools Project
Fiona Holmes

2. The partnership approach

4. Structure change, easy –
Culture change, hard!
‘Achieving our ambitions for disabled
children and young people and those
with special educational needs and
their families will mean changes in
the law. We have made clear that we
intend to introduce a Children and
Families Bill during the second
session of this Parliament to achieve
that. But it will also depend on
changes in the ways that
education, health and social care
professionals work with children,
young people and families and in the
ways they work with each other.’

5. The need for cultural change
Successful implementation of the SEND reforms and the new
COP is likely to require new ways of working and changes to
the existing culture of SEND service provision.
“The leaders of early years settings,
schools and colleges are responsible
for establishing and maintaining a
culture of high expectations: a
culture that expects those working
directly with children and young
people with SEN to include them in
all the opportunities available to
other children and young people; to
facilitate their participation; and to
ensure that they achieve well”
Draft Special Educational Needs (SEN
Code of Practice: for 0 to 25 years – October 2013)
Achieving our ambitions
for disabled children and
young people and those
with special educational
needs and their families will
… depend on changes in
the ways that education,
health and social care
professionals work with
children, young people and
families and in the ways
they work with each other.
(Support and Aspiration – progress and
next steps (May, 2012)

6. Early Support and culture change
• Early Support provides a framework for action for the
implementation of the SEND provisions of the Children and
Families Bill
• Based on 10 principles, it provides a framework for cultural
change and practical tools to enable this
Early Support has "demonstrated
the impact that well coordinated
family focused services can have”
and it “is helping to ensure that
the legislative framework
translates into real change for
families”
Edward Timpson, Minister for
Children & Families, 2013

9. Thank you
• Fiona Holmes Regional Facilitator Early Support: West
Midlands
• Email: fholmes@solihull.gov.uk
• Web Site: http://inprincipletraining.co.uk
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• Mobile number: 07768 021690