Open Framework for Specialist Support and Therapies for Children and Young People with SEND

Overview

Lots (4)

• Speech and Language Therapy

  Type of Service, Assessment, advice, intervention, review, training, consultation and specialist communication support for children and young people with SEND whose speech, language, communication or social communication needs affect access to education, participation, safety, relationships or preparation for adulthood. Eating, drinking and swallowing assessment and management is outside the standard scope of Lot 1. Registration Requirements HCPC registration for Speech and Language Therapists. Assistants, associates and therapy support staff may deliver specified activity only under documented supervision, competence checks and clear accountability from an HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist.

• Occupational Therapy

  Type of Service - Assessment, advice, intervention, review, training, consultation and specialist functional participation support for children and young people with SEND whose sensory, motor, functional, self-care, handwriting, movement, mobility, posture, equipment or environmental needs affect access to education, independence, participation, safety or preparation for adulthood. Registration Requirements - HCPC registration for Occupational Therapists. Assistants, associates and therapy support staff may deliver specified activity only under documented supervision, competence checks and clear accountability from an HCPC registered Occupational Therapist.

• Educational Psychology

  Type of Service - Psychological consultation, observation, assessment, formulation, advice, intervention, review, training, supervision, research, statutory SEND advice, annual review and transition input, tribunal support, EBSA and inclusion work, critical incident support, setting-level and system activity, and optional full-day EP locum capacity for children and young people with SEND. Registration Requirements - Professional accountability must be held by an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist entitled to use the protected title Educational Psychologist. Trainee Educational Psychologists, assistant psychologists, associates and other support staff may deliver specified activity only under documented supervision, competence checks and quality assurance. They must not make independent statutory recommendations outside their authorised role

• Alternative Provision Outreach

  Type of Service - Targeted and Targeted Plus inclusion and alternative provision support for children and young people whose attendance, engagement, behaviour, SEMH, reintegration or participation needs affect access to education. Services must be linked to identified Targeted or Targeted Plus needs and may include targeted in-school intervention, individual support planning, enhanced monitoring, outreach, individual or small group programmes, short-term alternative provision, academic or therapeutic intervention, review and reintegration planning. Registration Requirements - Providers must ensure staff hold qualifications, training, experience and professional registration appropriate to the activity delivered. Where provision requires DfE registration, Ofsted registration or another regulatory status, the Provider must hold and maintain that status before delivery. Before delivery starts, the Authority's AP service will complete or confirm the required local quality assurance of the Provider, proposed provision and premises. Providers must cooperate with checks, visits and required actions and must not begin delivery until local approval is confirmed. Providers must not deliver provision in a way that would operate unlawfully as an unregistered school or unregulated service.

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