What this course covers
Modules 1-6 are e-learning programmes that will help you to gain a more detailed awareness/understanding of:
- Module 1 – Care, Education and Treatment Reviews and Dynamic support registers, Introduction to mental health and social care
- Module 2 – Expert Patient Programme
- Module 3 – Social care and SEND
- Module 4 – Ordinarily available provision; thresholds and expectations of schools/settings
- Module 5 – Delivering quality annual reviews, focus on health advice, holistic outcomes in EHCPs, the role of CAMHs in EHCP process
- Module 6 – Decisions, capacity and introduction to liberty protection safeguards
Module 7 is delivered online or in person by a trained professional and requires booking on to a session to complete the module. This module will assist you to:
- Understand the local Special educational needs and disability (SEND) landscape
- Understand the national SEND landscape
- To understand the legal expectations of the EHCP process
- To have an overview of an EHCP
- To understand the local protocol for producing advice
- To understand how to be SMART with objectives/goals
- To understand the quality assurance of plans locally.
- Understanding of the graduated approach.
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Module 1a – Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETR) and Dynamic Support Registers (DSRs).
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes
This training is aimed at SENDIAS staff but will also benefit anyone working with children and young people with SEND and their families involved in CETR and DSR processes. It covers the history and evolving approaches to supporting those at risk of inpatient mental health care, explains CETRs and DSRs, and helps identify children and young people who may require these reviews.
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Module 1b – Introduction to Mental Health
TOTAL TIME: 30 minutes
This training has been developed specifically for Information, Advice and Support Service staff and volunteers. It will help you understand mental health and related difficulties, how these relate to life experiences, key terminology, and how to support people experiencing mental health challenges.
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Module 1c – Introduction to Social Care
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes
This training is for anyone involved in providing social care advice and information. It will help you understand social care support and services, the role of social care teams in the lives of children and young people with SEND and their families, the legal framework for quality social care, and how families can access assessments and support.
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Module 2 – Expert Patient Programme
TOTAL TIME: 4 hours
This programme helps build understanding and awareness about the following key topics including; personal health budgets, learning disabilities and behaviours that challenges, making a complaint, CAMHS and other mental health support services, the Mental Capacity Act and planning for an uncertain future.
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Module 3 – Social Care and SEND
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes
This training is aimed at practitioners in the Social Care and SEND sector, including Early Help Practitioners, Social Workers, Team Managers, and anyone providing social care advice for EHC needs assessments. It will help you understand the SEND system, relevant legal frameworks, the role of social care in EHC assessments and planning, and how to provide quality social care advice and information.
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Module 4 – Ordinarily Available Provision: thresholds and expectations of schools and settings
TOTAL TIME: 4 hours
This training is mostly aimed at senior leaders in the SEND system, though practitioners, SEN teams, education teams, and parent carers can also access it to learn about Ordinarily Available Provision. It introduces the principles, legal requirements, importance, key features, and examples of Ordinarily Available Provision, and supports reflection on how to implement it successfully in your local area.
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Module 5a – Delivering quality annual reviews
TOTAL TIME: 30 minutes
This training is aimed at colleagues with a role to play in the Annual Review process e.g senior leaders, Parent carers, Practitioners, SEN Teams Education teams
The course will help you understand the importance of a person-centred Annual Review process and meeting
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Module 5b – Focus on Health advice
TOTAL TIME: 2 hours 30 minutes
This training is aimed at colleagues with a role to play in the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) in particular to giving health advice.
The course will help you understand the role of good advice in the plan.
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Module 5c – Holistic outcomes in EHCPs
TOTAL TIME: 2 hours
This training is aimed at colleagues with a role to play in the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
The course will help you understand the system as a whole and the roles we play in supporting good outcomes.
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Module 5d – The role of CAMHS in the EHCP process
TOTAL TIME: 2 hours
This training is aimed at colleagues who play a role in the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
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Module 6 – Decisions, capacity and an introduction to Liberty Protection Safeguards
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour
This is aimed at all colleagues. It covers involving young people in decision making, supporting those who may lack capacity, the legal framework including the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019, and introduces Liberty Protection Safeguards for 16- and 17-year-olds and their families.
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Module 7 – Level 3 Multi-agency Training
TOTAL TIME: 2 hours
This training is delivered online or in person by a trained professional and requires booking a trained professional and requires booking on to a session to complete the module. It will help you understand the local and national SEND landscape, legal expectations and overview of EHCPs, local advice protocols, setting SMART objectives, and local quality assurance of plans.
