My Support Plan
This SEN support should take the form of a 4-part cycle of 'Assess, Plan, Do, Review' (SEND CoP 2015; 6:44), implemented using a 'My Support Plan'.
The purpose of a 'My Support Plan' is to help families and professionals identify the Special Educational Needs of a child/young person and how these may be met, and to use this knowledge to coordinate a plan of support.
The 'My Support Plan' is a non-statutory holistic assessment for children between the ages of 0 and 25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). It was developed as a tool to identify and respond to children and young people's special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) at the earliest possible point. In order to do this effectively, we need to understand and capture hopes and aspirations for the child/young person with SEND and their families to support planning of shared outcomes.
My Support Plan is completed following a TAC, TAYP (Team Around the Child/Young Person) meeting and should include the child, young person's and family's views.
It should be used as a setting's graduated approach to meet a child/young person's SEND. It is a 'live document' - shared and updated as circumstances change, with the aspiration of achieving a 'tell us once' approach.
Key documents
Ordinarily Available Provision
A great majority of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities should have their needs effectively met through high-quality teaching and SEND support arrangements within mainstream settings.
Hillingdon Ordinarily Available Provision (PDF, 727 KB) outlines the indicative arrangements that should be ordinarily available for pupils with SEND using the schools' delegated budget shares.
OAP checklists