| co-ordinated support plans (csp) |
Co-ordinated support plans (csp)Some children or young people who have enduring , complex or multiple barriers to learning and require a range of support and co-ordination from different services outwith education will have a co-ordinated support plan (csp).
A csp is a legal document which contains information about the child or young person’s long-term learning needs and the support that is needed to help them reach these. In Stirling, Staged Intervention will be the process which will assess whether your child meets the specific legal criteria for a csp. Stirling Council, Children’s Services is legally required to prepare a csp for your child if:
• It is responsible for your child’s education
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• Your child’s additional support needs are caused by complex or multiple factors
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• Their additional needs are likely to continue for more than a year
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• Their needs mean they require significant additional support
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• They need support to be provided from more than education.
The co-ordinated support plan must contain:
• A description of why the child or young person has additional support needs.
• The name of the child’s or young person’s school.
• Educational objectives the child or young person will be supported to achieve.
• The support required to help the child or young person achieve those objectives.
• Who will provide this support.
• The name of a contact person to provide advice and information to parents and the name of the person who will co-ordinate the Plan. The contact person is likely to be from the child/young person’s school, possibly a support co-ordinator but could also be someone like a social worker.
Children’s Services has the responsibility for the csp and for ensuring the co-ordination of the support detailed in it. But they will be able to ask other professionals outside education if this is more appropriate, for example, where a health or social worker is more closely involved with the child’s wider family.
If my child has a Record of Needs at the minute how will this be affected?
It will take time to introduce the new system of csp’s. When it is in place, the Record of Needs will not be used any more. Children with Records of Needs will be assessed to see whether they will need a co-ordinated support plan, Stirling has until Nov 2007 to review all children who currently have a Record of Needs. Whether or not they get a csp, they will continue to receive the support they need for their learning.
Parents and young people have specific rights in relation to csp’s listed under parents rights section.
| csp's Stirling Council's Anne Pearson explains a bit more about Staged Intervention and co-ordinated support plans. view video clip. Beyond Secondary School Educational psychologist, Jenni Barr talks about how the council must now work in close collaboration with other agencies to plan successfully for post-school. view video clip. |
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