[senco-forum] statemented children and SENCO involvement

Should a SENCO be involved if a statemented child is

Hi Mark

  I don't think a readmission meeting is the same as a PSP.   Ours certainly would not take place on the same day unless there was a lengthy exclusion.  
  A readmission meeting involves the pupil, their parent(s) and a senior member of staff and negotiates the pupil back into school by making sure s/he understands what was the problem in the first place.  It's not about 'telling off'.  It's about making sure that the pupil knows why they were excluded in the first place.  Our school rules are all about thinks like 'respect' and 'responsibility for own learning' so we need to make sure that pupils know why we had had to exclude them and which rule they broke.
  PSPs are about making that process formal - the PSP is often the last step before considering permenent exclusion because of persistent breaking of the school rules.  The targets set by PSPs in my school will be about which school rules must be followed.  At the last one we did we set 'Sit where I am told' as the first one.  He's at home now because he just won't.

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

"webmaster at aylesburyvale-sec.bucks.sch.uk" <webmaster at aylesburyvale-sec.bucks.sch.uk> wrote:

From: WrayJanice Wray 
> Should a SENCO be involved if a statemented child is
> excluded for 2 days and then brough back into school - is
> there anything in the COP that says the SENCO should bein
> on the readmiting meeting etc ? Thanks
> Janice :)Janice WraySecondary SENCO, Herts

Is this child at risk of further exclusions? If the answer
is yes then when the child comes back to school a PSP
(Pastoral Support Programme) should be instigated.

There will need to be an initial PSP meeting. This may be
part of the reintegration meeting but I would advise against
this. The PSP is a _supportive_ process, whereas a
reintegration meeting is often about 'telling off'

Ideally the PSP should be the responsibilty of whoever is in
charge of the _pastoral_ care of this child, often the head
of year.

I would say it is good practice to involve the SENCo at
these meetings where a child is identified as having SEN.
However this should be in a _consultative_ role.

Part of the PSP process involves target setting. In order to
prevent too many targets it would be desirable for these
targets to overlap with those on any IEP/ILP. It may be
necessary to change one or more of the IEP/ILP targets to
achieve this overlap.

Obviously it all depends on the individual case and to what
extent the SEN contributes to the risk of exclusion.

For example you might have a severely dyslexic child who is
perfectly well behaved in class and is making great progress
but keeps getting excluded for bringing drugs into school.
In this situation the PSP and IEP are likely to have no
overlap at all!

Part of the PSP process is also to record intervention
strategies already used/being used with this child. Often
the SENCo know this better than the head of year when it
comes to SEN students.

Hope this helps.

MArk

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