Consultation on the of Establishment of Targeted Mainstream Provision for Children and Young People with SEND at Caedmon College, Whitby
June 2022
Purpose of this Consultation Document:
This document explains the proposal by North Yorkshire County Council to establish Targeted Mainstream Provision for Children and Young People with SEND delivered by Caedmon College.
Following discussions with the Governors and Headteacher, Caedmon College has been selected to deliver a Targeted Mainstream Provision. North Yorkshire County Council is now asking for your views on this proposal as part of the statutory process which is required before alterations of these kind are made to maintained schools.
Public meeting
There will be a virtual (on-line) public meeting on Thursday 7th July 2022 at 6pm. If you wish to be part of this virtual meeting could you please let us know by emailing schoolorganisation@northyorks.gov.uk and joining instructions will be provided.
What will the Target Mainstream Provision look like?
Schools have the flexibility to refine their model of delivery but in general the new provision will:
• Provide 8 full time places for 6 children and young people with an Education, Health and Care Plan and 2 ‘flexible’ places for children needing to access the provision for short term assessment and support.
• Specialise in meeting the needs of children and young people with Communication and Interaction.
• Have access to a range of therapies and specialist training opportunities to ensure children are fully supported
• Increase the opportunities for children and young people with SEND to access mainstream education together with more specialised small group interventions and support
• Be funded on a ‘place’ basis similar to special schools and in line with national guidance.
Background to the Proposal
North Yorkshire County Council has a duty to keep its special education provision under review and ensure there is the right type of provision and enough places to meet the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
We want all children and young people with SEND in North Yorkshire to;
We know that there are more children and young people being identified as having special educational needs in North Yorkshire and we expect this increase to continue. We need to make sure that we have the right type of education provision in the right place to meet their needs. We know that a number of our children and young people have to go to school outside North Yorkshire, and we want to avoid this wherever possible.
We have developed a strategic plan for educating children with SEND which aims to create a better offer of provision for children and young people, improved communication, enable more local decision making, and reduce costly out of county placements. This plan was approved in September 2018 and the proposal to implement the Targeted Mainstreams Provisions were the approved on 31 March 2020. We are now implementing the actions within it and one of these actions requires us to alter the designation to include an SEN Unit of those schools involved.
This document explains the proposal that we are consulting on with regard to the individual school in question. The full strategic plan document is here www.northyorks.gov.uk/sendplan so that you can see where this aspect of provision fits within the wide range of provisions established or being developed. We recommend that you read this documents before responding to the survey and giving us your views on the individual proposal.
How are we consulting?
We have already carried out a consultation exercise on the SEND Strategic Plan from 18th May 2018 to 28th June 2018 and then subsequently from 6th February 2020 to 15th March 2020 on the specific issue of establishing Targeted Mainstream provisions. This current school organisation proposal is purely about the establishment of a Targeted Provision.
We are asking you to give your views on the school organisation proposals. If you would like a paper copy of the survey or an alternative format, please call our customer service centre on 01609 780 780.
You can either complete and return the attached response sheet, or submit an online response at
https://consult.northyorks.gov.uk/snapwebhost/s.asp?k=165305715360
What is the timescale?
The closing date for responses is 29 July 2022. All responses to the consultation received by this date will be considered by our Executive on 20 September 2022. If the County Council’s Executive decides to proceed with the proposal, then statutory notices would be published in the local press on 29 September 2022. These notices provide a further four weeks for representations to be made. A final decision would then be made by the County Council’s Executive on 8 November 2022.
Information about our equalities impact assessment
We have carried out an equalities impact assessment (EIA) which can be found here https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/sites/default/files/fileroot/Children%20and%20families/SEND%20-%20local%20offer/EMS%20EIA%20reviewed%20Appendix%203.pdf. We will update this following comments received during the consultation and councillors will consider it again before they make a decision on implementing the proposal. The EIA has identified that there will be an impact on young people with SEND and if changes are made to current SEND education services, we will offer support to families to adapt to those changes.
We anticipate that, if the proposal is implemented, it may bring positive impacts to young people and their families, particularly by enabling more young people with SEND to be educated in their own community and achieve better outcomes. We anticipate that with more local provision children and young people with SEND will have more opportunities to attend a local school that is closer to home and will help them achieve better educational and social outcomes.
Caedmon College
We are consulting on proposals to add provision for Special Educational Needs by providing Special Resourced provision in the form of Targeted Mainstream Provision at Caedmon College Whitby.
Observations and/or suggestions:
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Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, responses to the consultation may be published on the County Council’s website where it may be accessed by members of the public. Your personal details will not be published.
Please send this response sheet to the following “FREEPOST” address. You do not need to use a postage stamp.
FREEPOST RTKE-RKAY-CUJS
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North Yorkshire County Council
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To be received by no later than 29 July 2022
We are collecting this information for the purpose of gathering views on the proposal. Your personal data will not be published or passed to any other organisation unless a legal obligation compels us to do so. We may contact you to discuss your views further. For more information about how your personal data is handled at North Yorkshire County Council please visit: www.northyorks.gov.uk/privacy-notices