Moving to Adulthood
Reforms to Post-16
Education and Training
for
Introduction
1) Curriculum reforms and associated funding
changes
2) The changing role of the LA: funding
3) The changing role of the LA: EHCPs
4) The wider reform landscape
What we know...
• SI specific evidence is limited
• Data collection methods present
problems
Transition
• 22% of those with a declared disability were NEET at
18 in 2009, compared with 13% average.
• Providers only received a Learning Disability
Assessment in one third of the instances in which
they should have.
Some HI data
Provider type
Numbers
(Deaf)
Percentage
(Deaf)
Percentage (All)
General FE College incl
Tertiary
3868
65
41
Sixth form college
476
8
11
Schools
960
15
36
All other provider types
737
12
13
HE admission for SI
200
180
160
140
120
Blind / partially sighted
Deaf / partial hearing
100
No disability
80
All other disability
60
40
20
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Curriculum reforms and
funding
• Funding ‘flexible study programmes’ not qualifications
• Requirement to continue English and Maths in some form for
those with low attainment
• Increased focus on work experience
• Traineeships and supported internships
Funding to support reform
• ‘Low level LDD’ funding designed to support these reforms
• For all students whose additional support needs cost less than
£6,000:
• Post-16 providers will have Additional Learning Support funding
for:
- ‘disadvantage’ and;
- ‘low level learning difficulties and disabilities
• Data suggests most HI young people fit into this category.
HI ‘learners’: costs
Cost
Numbers
Percentage
Numbers ‘low cost’
1,883
37
Numbers with no ALS
2,523
50
>0<6,000
1,883
37
>6,000<20,000
684
14
Changing role of the
LA: Funding
• Local authorities responsible for funding all
young people aged 16-25 with a Learning
Difficulty Assessment (LDA).
• High Needs Students without LDAs post 19
will be funding responsibility of the Skills
Funding Agency (SFA)
Changing role of the
LA: The C+F Bill...
• What role do local authorities currently
play in the post-16 education and
training of SI young people?
Section 139a/140 Education and
Skills Act 2008
The SEN code of
practice
transition duties
Section 68
Education
And Skills
Act 2008
Section 15za Education Act 1996
Raising of the
Participation Age
(RPA)
• Young people who started Year 11 in September
2012, will need to continue in education or training
until at least the end of the school year in which they
turn 17.
• Young people currently in Year 10 or below, will need
to continue until at least their 18th birthday.
The C+F Bill
Section 139a/140 Education and
Skills Act 2008
Local authorities are now the assessors,
commissioners and funders of post-16 education
for SI young people with LDAs / EHCPs
Funding reform
Section 15za
Education Act 1996
0-25?
• More accurately: 0-18 with some exceptions
• No extension to higher education
• Post 16 plans likely to be the first new plans
0-25?
• 16-18 NEETs: LA must review the plan
and amend it with a view to reengaging.
• 18-25 NEETs: Do they wish to remain in
education? And, is this ‘appropriate’?
Wider reform: IAG
Section 45a Education
Act 1997: Schools based
provision – ‘1:1 for SEN’
Emerging
responsibilities towards
young people in the
Children and Families
Bill
National
Careers Service
Local authorities
have particular
responsibility for
‘vulnerable’ groups
Wider reform:
Employability
Wolf reforms
Youth
Contract – for
16-24 year old
NEETs
• Wage incentives for
employers
• Tailored work
experience
• Apprenticeship wage
incentives
• Support for disengaged
16-17 year olds
Challenges
• Transition: not losing the value of annual review and
LDA processes;
• Avoiding an 18-25 postcode lottery in the
maintenance of plans;
• RPA – ensuring SI YP benefit from wider LA
strategies
• Colleges faced with multiple LA approaches
Challenges
• Budgets: ensuring the HNB is adequately financed;
• Careers Advice: streamlining various responsibilities
into a coherent offer;
• Curriculum: English and Maths delivery; work
experience;
• Delivery of wider life outcomes.
Opportunities
• Delivery of wider life outcomes;
• Harnessing local and regional expertise through
commissioning: partnership opportunities;
• No more cliff edge at 16;
• Flexible approach to learning.
NATSIP workstream 7
a) Meta analysis
b) Regional working groups
c) Best practice guidance
d) Top ten tips
Ralph Hartley: Policy Adviser,
education and training for deaf young
people 14-15 years
[email protected]