Ordinary provision offer
At the core of this strategy is a strong investment in people. Lincolnshire is expanding its SEND workforce development programme, helping schools build the confidence and capacity to meet increasingly complex needs. This includes:
- expansion of the sector-led training platform for professionals, including an additional 16 training modules, with subject area identified from user feedback
- actively encouraging all schools to access the learning platform as part of the core continued professional development offer. Evidence which suggests a correlation between accessing the SEND learning platform and improvements in school inclusion, with Ofsted recognising this in recent school inspections
- targeted continued professional development and peer-led learning
- continuation of the bespoke training package supporting the roll-out of mainstream SEND and AP hubs
- a focus on early intervention of need to reduce the long-term need for specialist placements
By equipping staff with the tools and knowledge they need, inclusive practice becomes embedded across all settings, creating a culture where every child can be supported effectively and families can be confident that there needs can be met by skilled and knowledgeable workforce in a mainstream setting.
Inclusion quality and effectiveness advisors
Lincolnshire’s inclusion quality and effectiveness team offers support to mainstream schools to effectively meet the additional needs of their pupils and increase schools’ confidence in their ability to do this.
The team provides critical professional partnership working with mainstream schools, providing challenge and support to senior leaders, high quality provision, ambitious outcomes, to strengthen the quality and effectiveness of early intervention and the graduated approach.
The quality and effectiveness team support mainstream schools with the implementation of the tiered initiatives identified in the strategy, to ensure these provisions remain consistently effective in their educational offer.
They also play a key role in the quality and effectiveness of the SEND and AP hub provision, supporting schools to provide high-quality, effective teaching and learning to hub pupils, including the development and review of a differentiated curriculum, early identification of additional needs and planning pupil-centered interventions.