What we do at PCFD

Promote and support co-production

 working in genuine partnership with families.

Share family experiences

at Department for Education monitoring meetings and NHS England monitoring meetings

Focus on real life impact

Track whether families are experiencing real improvements outside the boardroom.

Support recruitment

for SEND-related roles within the local authority, NHS and other local organisations.

SEND Local Area Partnership

Devon Local Area SEND Strategy

SEND Strategy 2024 to 2027

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SEND Strategic Partnership Board & workstreams

The SEND Strategic Partnership Board includes representatives from the following organisations and groups:

  • Devon County Council (with overall responsibility for SEND services in Devon) including the Chief Executive, councillors, chief officers and representatives from education, children’s and adult social care and public health and early help.
  • NHS Devon (with overall responsibility for health services for children and young people with SEND).
  • Parent Carer Forum Devon.
  • Educational settings and schools.
  • Commissioned services (which provide health, care and education support to children and young people with SEND) – Children and Family Health Devon.
  • Devon Children’s Safeguarding Partnership.
  • Children and young people with SEND.
  • Department for Education advisors.
  • NHS England advisors.
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Accelerated Progress Plan monitoring

The Accelerated Progress Plan (APP), monitored by the Department for Education and NHS England, focuses specifically on improvements in the four areas of weakness set out in the May 2022, Ofsted findings:

  • Strategy – The fact that strategic plans and the local area’s SEND arrangements are not embedded or widely understood by stakeholders, including schools, settings, staff, and parents.
  • Communications – The significant concerns that were reported about communication with key stakeholders, particularly with parents and families.
  • EHC Plans Timeliness and Quality – The time it takes to issue Education, Health, and Care (EHC) plans and the variable quality of these plans.
  • Autism – Weaknesses in the identification, assessment, diagnosis and support of those children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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Education

Linking with the SEND Operations team

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Health

NHS Devon

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Providers (like Children and Family Health Devon)

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Social Care

Disabled Children’s Service

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Short Breaks Board

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Adult Social Care

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Devon Information Advice and Support

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We offer coproduction advice and training. Contact us if you’d like to know more.

In Devon we’re using the Four Cornerstones approach.

If you’d like us to come to your group, get in touch.

What Parent Carer Forums can’t do and what we do instead

We don’t

Instead we

Give legal advice or take on individual cases

Represent collective views to help shape health, social care and education services across Devon 

Offer personal support or advice

Work in coproduction – with service providers to develop and improve services that are important to families

Campaign

Support campaign activity indirectly – we can share expert knowledge and experience to support local and national campaigns 

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