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A taxonomy for SEND Reforms

From the 2015 Code of Practice, local authorities created ordinarily availble provision as a PDF, SEND Toolkit, or Ranges doc.

The new SEND reforms need a different approach, because the strategies and interventions must be evidence based, and up to date.

Our online directory, Belong , will help all local authorities achieve this.

Categories

But first we need some new categories.

For the old Areas of Need, the new Development Areas, we've got a (still to be confirmed) list.

For the Universal, whole school strategies, I'm drawing on the SEND Reform docs to create something that will be useful for local authorities and schools to have a shared language.

The old way, using a SEND Toolkit PDF, the new way, using an online, up to date directory of resources

Universal categories

  • Leadership and governance
    • Inclusion strategy
    • National Inclusion Standards
  • Evidence-based support
    • Early intervention
  • High quality teaching with inclusive curriculum
  • Beyond the classroom
  • Safe and respectful culture
  • Strong partnerships with families and wider services
    • Parent carers
    • Wider services
      • Health
      • Care
      • Virtual school
      • Children looked after
  • Inclusive environments
    • Inclusive by design
    • Emotional environment

Notes

  1. Maybe "Emotional environment" belongs in "Safe and respectful culture" ?
  2. I'm not sure what's going to be in the National Inclusion Standards, so that's a bit of aplaceholder.
  3. How to break down "Beyond the classroom"? Breaks, before and after school, extra-curricula, trips???
  4. "Strong partnerships" probably needs something around the new "Groups" of schools.
  5. Got any ideas? Send me an email

Development Areas categories

  • Executive function
    • Attention
    • Working memory
    • Managing impulses
    • Planning and sequencing and organisation
    • Cognitive flexibility
  • Motor and physical
    • Gross motor
    • Fine motor
    • Interaction of fine and gross motor
  • Sensory development
    • External senses
      • Vision
      • Hearing
      • Touch
      • Taste
      • Smell
    • Internal senses
      • Body awareness
      • Internal body signals
      • Balance and movement
    • Sensory processing
  • Social and emotional
    • Understand and manage emotions
      • Form relationships
      • Navigating social interactions
      • Navigate learning at school
    • Regulating emotions
      • Identifying and expressing feelings
      • Social cognition
  • Speech, language and communication
    • Speech
    • Language
    • Communication

Notes

  1. I wonder if I have broken things down enough here.
  2. There a lot missing in terms of Literacy and Numeracy, compared to the 4 Broad Areas of Need and local authroity OAP / SEND Toolkits

Let us...

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with a working prototype for your local authority

Send me your ordinarily available provision / graduated approach docs and I'll make a sample prototype for you to share with colleages.

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  • Sample of your graduated approach
  • Share across your authority with logins for council and SENCOs

    • SEND your graduated approach docs to me, Jonny Holden, jonny@poppop.studio

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