SEND Advisory Team

There are 6 SEND Advisors who are part of the SEND Specialist Services Team and work directly with Special Educational Needs and Disability Co-ordinators (SENDCO’s) in Central Bedfordshire to look at provision in schools and ensure that schools are meeting statutory requirements.

SEND Advisors complete activities with schools and provide advice.  This includes:

• providing advice around Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment requests 
• providing advice and support to ensure good annual reviews
• support with the completion of the annual review calendar for each setting
• giving advice around funding for children with or without an EHCP 
• providing advice around part-time timetables and alternative provision 
• providing advice regarding suspensions for children
• providing independent SEN advice at Independent Review Panels 
• giving advice on how to effectively review the progress of children with SEND through good assess, plan, do, review processes
• giving advice around quality assurance of school's actions towards EHCP outcomes
• auditing of Alternative Resource Provisions (ARP) 
• quality assuring out of area independent schools with large numbers of CBC children 
• providing advice to schools following panel decisions on funding and requests for a change of placement
• gfiving advice regarding school place transfer (Years 4/6/8 & 11)
• being a single point of contact for SENDCOs for support and advice
• supporting the work of School Improvement Advisors (SIA's) 
• joining way forward meetings where an EHCNA has been refused, to advise schools on further support for individuals
• supporting the review of complaints in respect of EHCP’s and provision
• providing a training offer to schools to improve whole school SEN provision and the delivery of ordinarily available provision
• around delivery of the SEND Action Plan following the LA Ofsted report including the review of the Graduated Approach
• supporting schools to complete the NASEN Toolkit
• undertaking learning walks with SENDCOs to review whole school SEND provision