What is Exercising the LA Budgets Ofsted SEN

What is Exercising the LA? • • Budgets Ofsted SEN Reform Outcomes for children (esp vulnerable) School places Relationships with schools – and others Accountability What next?

What is Exercising Schools? • • Budgets Ofsted SEN Reform Outcomes for children (esp vulnerable) School places Relationships with the LA – and others Accountability What next?

Budgets – our revised and confirmed priorities • Ensure a safe and effective social care system • Ensure sufficient capacity to lead, challenge and improve the schools system • Tightly target limited resources • Target and co-ordinate early help provision • Sustain high quality sold services • Maximise opportunities for efficiencies and partnerships

Budgets – the reality • • • C 15% since 2010 A further £ 26 m by April 15 A third less capacity Yet more by 17/18 We are better placed than most but cannot ignore the implications

Ofsted Single Inspection Framework Judgements • • Early help and protection judgement – good Care Leavers judgement – good Adoption judgement – outstanding LAC judgement – good LSCB judgement - good Leadership management – outstanding Overall effectiveness - good

SEN Reform • • Children and Families Act – Sept 2014 0 -25 Education, Health and Care Plans Personal budgets “available” The local offer Changes to the identification of SEN One school-based SEN category Six briefings for schools 2 nd – 9 th June Additional briefings for SEN Govs & SENCos

FSM in Hampshire - 2013 • Better than national average for youngest children on FSM • The gap between children eligible for FSM and those not narrowed again for 11 year olds • Hampshire’s gap is large for 16 year olds – 135 th our of 150 local authorities, ranked by the size of the gap • Authorities like Hampshire – large, shire, relatively affluent and in the south east - struggle most • The gap in London is under 20%, 26% in Southampton; 32% in Surrey and 35% in Hampshire • It is not possible to discern any effect from the ‘status’ of a school on the attainment of 16 year olds eligible for free school meals in Hampshire • On every level the most serious challenge for a high performing “universal” education system

Noises Off! • • IBC Political positioning ready for 2015 Df. E Enquiry into academy performance Local Commissioners, Ofsted regional teams, the role of the LA • School governance! • Recruitment in schools • Historic and high-profile child-protection cases and their aftermath!

Reasons to be Cheerful • More money: £ 935 for secondary and £ 1, 300 for primary FSM students: £ 50 m nationally for summer schools for year 7 students who need to ‘catch up’ and an additional £ 500 per year 7 student who is below expected standards in reading and/or maths plus £ 1, 900 for every LAC in addition to the C£ 1, 900 from DSG. • Capital programme in Hampshire of C£ 250 m over 3 -5 years 8, 000 school places plus investment in schools, SEN provision and education centres. • Children’s Services on the Io. W – and elsewhere? • The range of empirical evidence of the quality and effects for children of our schools and services

And Thank You Governors… …from a grateful, sustaining, determined, challenging and developing Children’s Services and Local Education Authority