Social Emotional and Mental Health as a Special Education Need Nick Millward Strategic Lead for SEMH [email protected] 01872 326367
Social Emotional and Mental Health as a Special
Education Need
Nick Millward Strategic Lead for SEMH [email protected] 01872 326367
Curriculum and SEMH
Social Emotional and Mental Health as a special education need
School get judged / measured on a system called progress 8. This is a numeral values based on the point a students gain from 8 subjects.
Subjects are differently weighted with some being compulsory. All the subjects
are placed in categories called “Groups or buckets”
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Group 2 Group 3
English and Maths Double weighted
Ebacc qualifications Science, Computer science, humanities
Open group Technology, Arts, vocations
qualifications and other approves subjects
Key documents • SEN code of practice 2015
• Keeping children safe in education 2018
• Mental Health and Behaviour in schools
2014
• Mental health and wellbeing provision in schools 2018
• Supporting Mental health in schools and colleges 2017
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Schools funding as support
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Element 1 - AWPU
Element 2 - SEN
Element 3 – “Top up”
Schools have to show how they are using the initial £10,000 of funding before top up can be agreed
What is SEMH?
SEMH is an overarching term for people who demonstrate difficulties with emotional regulation and/or social interaction and/or are experiencing mental health
problems.
We all have SEMH?
We all have good or bad days. Depending on our internal resilience and support systems a bad day may impact
on our mental wellbeing.
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Aspiration and Achievement
Data
What is the extent of need
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Numbers of young people identified as have SEMH as their primary SEN within all the Cornish secondary schools
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What is the scale of the need?
8% of 5 to 10 year olds had a sighs and symptoms which could lead to a clinically diagnosed mental health need
12% of 11 to 16 year olds had a sighs and symptoms which could lead to a clinically diagnosed mental health need
1. Mental health of children and young people in Great Britain, 2004 - https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB06116
There are 42,143children ages between 5 and 10 which means we are similar to the national picture we would have 3371 needing support
There are 27,241children ages between 11 and 16 which means we are similar to the national picture we would have 3269 needing support
Within Cornwall to support SEMH more widely
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There is a lot of support from education, health and social care teams across Cornwall. Some of the main teams that you could seek support from are:
• Early support • Virtual school • Inclusion support funding (ISF) • Locality teams • Headstart community and school based teams • Early inclusion team • Educational Welfare Service • Healthy schools team • SEN support services • ASC team / ASC parenting support • Council commissioned YPC services e.g. Kooth • CAMHS / CAPS • School nurse / health visitors – expanded service • Youth offending service • Speech and language service • New PHSE program - TBC
Social Emotional and Mental Health as a special education needs
Nick Millward Strategic Lead for SEMH [email protected] 01872 326367