Headteacher Breakfast Briefing

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Headteacher Breakfast Briefing
SEN Profile Outputs Data
24 June 2005
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SEN Profile

• Brings together PLASC SEN contextual and
  attainment data
• Will provide us with year on year Walsalls
  response to the identification, assessment
  provision for children with SEN
• Threshold for support and challenge in monitoring
  and accountability
• Support school self evaluation

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SEN Profile Whats In It?

• Summary
• Highlights the data used
• Identifies a Key Issue
• Interpretation
• Questions for your school
• Contextual Data - Numbers percentages of pupils
  by SEN provision and primary need as identified
  in PLASC
• 2004 Key Stage Attainment Data matched to pupils
  on 2005 PLASC with a primary SEN need
• FSM - of School Action/School Action Plus and
  Statement

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SEN Profile WHAT Are the KEY ISSUES ?

• Key Issue 1 Identification of SEN decreased
  slightly in nursery primary but increased
  slightly in secondary compared with 2004
• Key Issue 2 Significant variations between
  similar schools percentages of children
  identified at each stage of the SEN Code of
  Practice.
• Key Issue 3 Moderate Learning Difficulties
  highest primary SEN need identified
• Key Issue 4 Behaviour, emotional and social
  difficulties second highest primary SEN need
  identified
• Key Issue 5 Children/young people with moderate
  learning difficulties are attaining well within
  the ability range of their peers
• Key Issue 6 A high percentage of children/young
  people identified with SEN achieved the expected
  levels when compared with the percentage of
  children/young people without special educational
  needs.

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SEN Profile Key Issue 5

• EXAMPLE
• A high percentage of children/young people
  identified with a primary SEN need of moderate
  learning difficulties are attaining well within
  the ability range of their peers for each key
  stage when this data is compared with 2004
  attainment data.

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KEY ISSUE 5 MLD attainment

• Key Stage 1 365 children
• Reading
  Writing Maths
• L2 39
  33 62
• L2B 15
  9 31
• L3 1
  1
  4
• Key Stage 2 371 children/young people
• English
  Maths Science
• L4 25
  25 47
• L5 1 2
  7
• Key Stage 3 275 young people
• English
  Maths
  Science
• L5 14
  17 32
• L6 1
  5 0
• Key Stage 4 - 43 young people - 14 which
  achieved 5 A-C and 72 achieved 5 A-G.

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KEY ISSUE 5 - Questions??

• What is responsible for some children being
  identified as having SEN and some children not,
  when they are attaining at the same level?
• Are these under achieving children rather than
  SEN?
• Is the child/young person making adequate
  progress as outlined in the SEN Code of
  Practice?
• Is an automatic assumption being made that all
  children in the lower ability bands have SEN?

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SEN Profile

• Support School Self Evaluation
• Support implementation of Monitoring
  Accountability Policy
• Consultation document at 1st Breakfast Briefing
  in September
• SEN funding and delegated statement budget
• Provision for children and young people with
  special educational needs
• Attainment of children and young people with SEN
  and
• How children and young people are identified
  across Walsall