The SEND Advisory Team (SENDAT) provide specialist teacher advice and support for children and young people (CYP) 4-25 years of age who have an education, health and care plan (EHC plan, often referred to as an EHCP) in a mainstream school and the specialist sector. The service offers timely support to schools via a single point of contact (SPOC) within the team. Bromley schools will have an identified teacher from the team named as their SPOC to support responsive approaches to managing the population of young people with an EHC plan and associated SEND related issues.
The service also offers intensive key working and advice for families, reaching the agreed criteria, to support them to navigate systems and signpost to other services that may provide advice and help.
SENDAT provide linkwork support and ongoing continued professional development (CPD) to education teams across mainstream and the specialist sector.
The service works in direct partnership with schools, families and multi-agency partners to ensure that children and young people are making progress towards long term outcomes so that they are able to take the fullest possible role in adult life.
Our functions
To offer advice and support to whole school cohorts, smaller identified groups and personalised casework for children with an EHC plan or health need. This will help to maintain a CYP’s placement and enable them to engage with their learning and make good progress towards their personalised outcomes from their own individual starting points.
- To provide Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to educational teams as part of Bromley’s training collaborative and bespoke packages to individual schools and across multi academy trusts.
- To quality assure in-borough specialist provisions and out of borough specialist schools where Bromley children and young people are placed.
- To provide intensive key work for children and young people and their families that may require wraparound support and signposting guidance.
- To offer timely support, advice and signposting for children with health needs in mainstream schools.
- To support and signpost schools and colleges to fulfil their statutory duties for students who are preparing for adulthood. Providing information, support and training across the graduated approach from the earliest point.
- To work with wider multi-agency teams across education, health and care to develop integrated approaches to learning offers and training.
- To work with wider council teams to support key decision making and central SEND projects.
Accessing the service
SENDAT accept referrals from mainstream and specialist schools and alternative provisions via their designated single point of contact (SPOC) to support children with an EHC plan.