UPDATE NO 512 01 July 2022

Newsletters If you would like to know more about the Programme, click on the main section icons shown above. At SESLIP we are always on the look-out for good ideas that might be better implemented regionally rather than locally. If you have any suggestions, please contact Richard Tyndall, SESLI Programme Manager (details below).  Our Regional […]

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If you would like to know more about the Programme, click on the main section icons shown above.

At SESLIP we are always on the look-out for good ideas that might be better implemented regionally rather than locally. If you have any suggestions, please contact Richard Tyndall, SESLI Programme Manager (details below). 

Our Regional Improvement Plan for 2022-2023 (July 2022) can be found here

If you would like to work for the programme, ESCC has advertised the SESLIP Freelance Consultant Approved ListPlease address all enquiries about this opportunity to Richard Tyndall (contact details below)

UPDATE NO 512 01 July 2022

Programme:

Regional Improvement Plans approved

Update:

On 1 July, SESLIP Steering Group approved the Regional Improvement Plan 2022-2023 and the SE19 SEND Regional Improvement Plan 2022-2023.

Action Required:

For further information please contact Richard Tyndall (details below) or for SEND Sheelagh Sullivan (details below) 

Programme:

New SESLIP MoU issued

Update:

On 1 July, SESLIP Steering Group issued a new Memorandum of Understanding. This reflects extended agreements on data benchmarking on a national basis. 

Action Required:

We ask the Director of Children’s Services, the Chief Executive and the Lead Member for Children’s Services for each authority to sign this document to symbolise the professional, corporate and political commitment to joint working in the interests of promoting better outcomes for children and young people.

Programme:

Updated DfE guidance Creating sustainable high needs systems

Update:

On 23 June DfE published an updated version of Sustainability in high needs systems Guidance for local authorities 

Action Required:

It includes:

  • guidance for local authorities on how to manage their high needs systems effectively and sustainably, drawing on learning from the high needs budgets effective management in local authorities research report and the safety valve intervention programme
  • guidance on our intervention work with local authorities, including updates on the delivering better value in SEND programme and the safety valve intervention programme
  • case studies from local authorities highlighting examples of work to manage high needs systems sustainably seen through our intervention programmes, from 2021

Programme:

Research examining practice in 10 local authorities which appear to manage high needs budgets effectively

Update:

On June 23 DfE published High needs budgets: effective management in local authorities. It provides examples of good or promising ways that case study local authorities are managing budgets for children and young people with high needs

Action Required:

The ten authorities featured in the study were Barnet, Camden, East Sussex, Essex, North Lincolnshire, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Telford & Wrekin, Wakefield, and Wigan 

Programme:

Open consultation: Introducing a separate judgement about care leavers within the inspection of local authority children’s services (ILACS)

Update:

On 20 June Ofsted launched a consultation on proposals for a new judgement on the experiences and progress of care leavers within the ILACS framework

Action Required:

This consultation closes at 

Reminders from previous weeks

Programme:

Future dates for network meetings

Update:

Lead Members Group: Friday 22 July 10.00am.  More from Alison Michalska (contact details below)

Data Benchmarking: Tuesday 12 July 10:00am More from Alastair Lee (contact details below)

Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board: Wednesday 20 July 10.30am-12noon More from Rebecca Eligon (contact details below)

Action Required:

AD EducationFriday 14 October 10:00am. More from Chris Owen (contact details below)

AD Safeguarding: Friday 9 September 10:00am. More from Mark Evans (contact details below)

QA Network: Wednesday 14 September at 2pm. More from Amanda Meadows (contact details below)

Fostering Network: Wednesday 13 July 10-11.30am More from Rebecca Eligon (contact details below)

SEND SE19: Tuesday 12 July 2022 10:00 – 13:00 Co-production Conference: Embedding Resilience in Strategic Co-production. More from Sheelagh Sullivan (contact details below)

Early Help: Monday 12 September 1.30pm. More from Rebecca Eligon (contact details below)

Family Hubs Community of Practice: Governance and commissioning workshop via Teams Tuesday 19 July 9.20 – 11.30. More from Carly Bain (contact details below) 

Programme:

Schools Census Data for 2021-22 published – workforce and pupil numbers

Update:

On 9 June, DfE published School workforce in England data from the November 2021 school workforce census.

On 9 June, DfE published Schools, pupils and their characteristics from the 21/22 school census, school level annual school census, general hospital school census and alternative provision census.

On 16 June, DfE published Special educational needs in England: January 2022 from the school census on pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and SEN provision in schools.

Action Required:

Pupil to teacher ratios are similar to last year: 20.6 pupils per teacher in nurseries and primary schools, 16.7 in secondary schools, and 6.3 in special and PRU schools.

FSM eligibility increases: 22.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, up from 20.8% in 2021

EHCP numbers increase: up 9.2% to 355,566

Tools & Templates

We have produced a Regional Improvement Plan (July 2022) which will underpin activities while we await publication of the DfE’s reponse to the McAllister Care Review, which is anticipated in Autumn 2023

On 1 July, SESLIP Steering Group approved the Regional Improvement Plan 2022-2023 and the SE19 SEND Regional Improvement Plan 2022-2023.

On 23 June DfE published an updated version of Sustainability in high needs systems Guidance for local authorities 

On 20 June Ofsted launched a consultation on proposals for a new judgement on the experiences and progress of care leavers within the ILACS framework

On 16 June, DfE published Special educational needs in England: January 2022

On 9 June, DfE published School workforce in England data

On 9 June, DfE published Schools, pupils and their characteristics

On 1 June, HM Inspectorate of Probation published Effective practice guide Education, training and employment

On 25 May DfE published Local authority established MATs: registration of interest

The Liberty Protection Safeguards and the Draft Code of Practice: Considerations for Consultation briefing from Dr Camilla Parker on 20 May 2022

Senior mental health lead training  guidnace for schools and colleges published by DfE 12 May 2022

Consultation on new education and training approval standards for approved mental capacity professionals published by SWE on 9 May 2022

Working together to improve school attendance published by DfE on 6 May 2022, to apply from September 2022

Disrupting the routes between care and custody for girls and women published by CFJ 4 May 2022

Children in custody: secure training centres and secure school published by NAO 28 April 2022

Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s annual report for 2021-2022 published by IASC 27 April 2022 

State of the Nation’s Foster Care 2021 published by The Fostering Netowrk on 27 April 2022

Decisions in Education in England Panel (DEEP) survey launched by EPI 25 April 2022

Annual Report 2021 published by IntegratED on 20 April 2022 

School-led tutoring grant published by DfE 20 April 2022

Why do children go into children’s homes? published by Ofsted on 13 April 2022

The care files: Exploring the experiences of teenagers entering the care system published by NFJO on 7 April 2022

Emergency planning and response for education, childcare, and children’On 13 April, Ofsted pubisheds social care settings published by DfE 1 April 2022

The Relationship Between Poverty and Child Abuse and Neglect: New Evidence published by Univerity of Huddersfield on 31 March 2022

Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan published by the Home Office 30 March 2022

Supporting practice in tackling child sexual abuse film series published by the CSA Centre on 30 March 2022

Child victims of modern slavery in the UK: March 2022 published by ONS 29 March 2022

Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit 2021 published by Brighton and Hove City Council, alongside a request to make a  donation to the work of Allsorts Youth Project

The MoC area of the SESLIP website now includes details of its relaunch on 1 April 2022.

Contact Details

Data and Information Manager: Luke Ede (East Sussex)

luke.ede@eastsussex.gov.uk

07925 148597

LGA Children’s Improvement Adviser: Helen Watson (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

helen.watson5@icloud.com

07810 011892

Children’s Services Performance Manager: Amanda Meadows (Hampshire)

Amanda.meadows@hants.gov.uk

03707 794752

Service Manager, Early Help, Family Hubs and Supporting Families: Anna Clarke (Isle of Wight)

anna.clarke@iow.gov.uk

Education Network: Chris Owen (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

chris@bright-spark.net

07825 862330

SESLIP Education Data Group Lead: Daryl Perilli (Brighton and Hove)

Daryl.Perilli@brighton-hove.gov.uk

The Staff College Assistant Operations Manager: Ellie Bevis (The Staff College)

ellie.bevis@thestaffcollege.uk

0161 729 1065

NHS (SE) CYP mental health: Gavin Lockhart (NHS England (South East))

gavin.lockhart1@nhs.net

07879 488307

South East Grid for Learning – Consortium Manager: Krista Pickering (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

krista.pickering@segfl.org.uk

07872 014083

SESLIP Consultant: Isabelle Gregory (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

isabelle@firstcareconsultancy.co.uk

07931 586784

CSC Workforce, PSW and AD Safeguarding Network Lead: Mark Evans (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

Mark@markevansconsulting.co.uk

07803 147072

Regional Development Manager Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (SE Region): Martin Tuck (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

martin.tuck@hants.gov.uk

03707 793651

LGA Corporate Improvement Adviser: Philip (Phil) Simpkins (LGA)

philip.simpkins@btinternet.com

Adoption; Fostering; Kinship and Early Help Regional Networks: Rebecca Eligon (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

rebeccaeligon@gmail.com

07944 996219

SESLI Programme Manager: Richard Tyndall (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

richard.tyndall@richardtyndall.co.uk

07880 787007

S.E. Region SEND Network Programme Co-ordinator: Sheelagh Sullivan (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

sheelagh.sullivan@outlook.com