There are a number of wider support services who can help settings to improve outcomes for learners with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in Doncaster. The many benefits of multi-agency collaborative partnership working for educational settings will ensure SEND learners reach their potential, remove barriers and ensure reasonable adjustments are made.

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• Health Services
• SEND Team
• Engagement and Behaviour Team
• Special schools and Alternative Provision
• SENDIAS

Benefits of a collaborative approach

• Leads to enhanced and improved outcomes for children and young people, through a range of joined-up services, advice and support being readily available and easily accessible.

• Benefits teachers understanding of multi-agency practitioners activities, and knowing about the services to signpost pupils to, enabling them to focus on their core role of teaching.

• Helps to build consensus, strengthen partnership voice, break down professional boundaries and parochial attitudes.

• Helps to enhance scale of coverage and sustainability when pooled budgets, joint bids, joint projects and endeavours are put into action.

• Can help to build a more cohesive community approach through united multi-agency practitioners taking greater ownership and responsibility for addressing local needs jointly, thus avoiding duplication or overlap of provision.

• Promotes mutual support, encouragement and the exchange of ideas between staff, helping the sharing of expertise, knowledge and resources for training and good practice, leading to more manageable workloads.

• Increased fit between the services offered and those required by children, young people and their families to meet their needs.

• Improves co-ordination of services resulting in better relationships, improved referrals and the addressing of joint targets.

• Offers a broader perspective or focus to working practice.

• Helps to improve understanding and raise awareness of issues and agencies, and other professionals practice.

• Increased level of trust existing between partners/providers in relation to everyone knowing each can and will deliver.

• Facilitates joint planning for future multi-agency developments.

• Increased staff morale knowing that they do not work in isolation and that issues and problems can be resolved collaboratively.

• Creates more enthusiastic and committed staff who have high expectations of themselves and others Sage 2008.

 

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