'Championing the rights of children'

SEND - GREEN PAPER SUMMIT 2011

*** Downloads from the Summit Conference now available ***

The Summit Conference held on the 9th March was a tremendous success, even though there was an 11th hour cancellation by Sarah Teather who had numerous other commitments to fulfil due to the Green Paper actually being published the same day - after a 24 hour delay. This was very disappointing for the audience who had paid to come to hear the Minister give a keynote speach... even more so because she was giving a press briefing just 200 yards up the street at the DfE!!! 

The majority of the delegates quickly moved on from this to enage with what the day was really all about.... assessing the initial impact of the content of the Green Paper and providing their initial responses to the key five chapters of the paper which were identified as:

  • Early identification and support
  • Giving parent’s control
  • Learning and achieving
  • Preparing for adulthood
  • Services working together for families

The key activity of the day was the delegates transcribing their issues and comments onto post it notes against each of above the five headings.

The response we had was impressive, with several hundred individual notes being posted.

Ultimately, this was the key deliverable of the day, and all these responses will be transcribed, collated and compiled into a document which will then be fed back to the DfE as the first stage in this 4 month consultation process. (See below).

The day itself presented the assembled delegates with the opportunity to be involved right at the start of the consultation process and everyone could see the real benefit of this.

The event was a great success, and much thanks must go to our joint partners.. NAHT, Nasen and SSAT in the organisation of the event, and particularly SSAT who managed all the bookings and hosted the day.

This was true collaboration at its best, and showed the value of working together to provide a real ‘Collective Voice’ on behalf of our members who work or are involved within the special educational needs and disability sector.

Hopefully this is just the beginning…

Feedback, Questions and Issues from Delegates - Now available for download

During the Summit Conference, key issues arising from the Green Paper were discussed by delegates and their questions and concerns were extensively documented.

These have now all been collated, by type of school, and placed under individual headings within each of the five key chapters (see above) that form the basis of the SEN Green Paper.

(Much thanks go to our colleagues at Nasen and SSAT for getting all the delegate's comments transcribed. A mammoth task!)

These responses will now also form a structured response that will be sent to the Department for Education (DfE) as a major part of the SEND ‘Green Paper’ consultation process.

There is also a copy of the Q&A sessions that took place with Charlie Henry of Ofsted, and Phil Snell and Andre Lunich of the DfE.

You can also download copies of each of these documents below, but remember, you must be a member of the FLSE to access these.

You also have the option to download all of these documents in one go in a 'Zip' file. To do this, click here...

 

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