Janet de Maine

Sims Core

SEND Review

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Changes to SEN

• Part of an ongoing project

• Capita are making changes in line draft code of practice to cover the statutory lookup changes.  Further changes will come in following releases when we have more definite confirmation of the new SEN code of practice

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Changes to SEN

Spring 2014•Start, End and recorded on dates•Existing SEN History renamed to SEN Change Log•New fully dated SEN Needs History•Better historical reporting

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Changes to SEN

Summer 2014•Statutory Changes – England only•E – EHCP (Education Health and Care Plan)•K – SEN Support

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Changes to SEN

Summer 2014Changes to SEN Need Types•Removed

BESD (Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulty)•Added

SMEH (Social, Mental and Emotional Health)

NSA (SEN Support, but no specialist assessment of need)

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Changes to SEN

Summer 2014Ability to track application for EHCP

•New Panel on SEN Details•Associated pop-up screen•Similar to existing panel

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Browser change

Layout has been tidied.

New SEN Statuses – England only

New SEN Statuses added:•E (EHCP) – Education, Health and Care

•K – SEN Support

New SEN Statuses

BESD Still Historical

• BESD is visible for historical need types, but is not available to select as a new need.

• BESD is still available in the reporting dictionary if you click ‘show all’

New SEN Need Types

• SEN need types have been added:• Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)• SEN Support but no Specialist Assessment of Need

(NSA)

Additional Support Fields Relabelled• These dropdown fields are only statutory for

Wales. • The set of fields has had a title of ‘Additional

Support’ added.

SEN Setup Screen Changed – Additional tick box for Hide Additional Support (England only)Tools / Setups / SEN SetupFor schools in England, the ability to hide the dropdown fields now labelled ‘Additional Support’ has been added to the SEN Setup area, which has been combined into one new panel for ‘SEN Settings’.

New EHCP Panel (England only)

New EHCP Panel

Title of Statement Pending? Added

Statement Pending? - updated from Review Panel

End Of Year Procedures

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End of Year Procedures

Updated documentation can be found at : http://faq.scomis.org/kb1491/

End of Year Presentations : http://training.scomis.org/end-of-year-procedures-in-sims-net/

Top Tips

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Top Tips

Quick Search Bar

Search for student, contact, employee information quickly

Student Teacher View

Attendance Intervention Graph (full screen) to see detail of behaviour, attendance and achievement

Change Requests?

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