SEND Glossary
A-C
Academy
A state-funded school in England that is directly funded by the Department for Education, through the Education Funding Agency. Academies are self-governing and independent of local authority control. AFC Agenda for Change, NHS Salary Structure for NHS-funded posts.
AFN
Additional Family Needs.
AP
Alternative Provision.
Area for Priority Action (APA) 1 Workstream (WS)
Workstream Meeting for Area for Priority Action 1 - see Governance Structure on Slide 5 - may want to amend this after on Friday’s discussion SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.
Area for Priority Action (APA) 2 Workstream (WS)
Workstream Meeting for Area for Priority Action 2 - see Governance Structure on Slide 5 - may want to amend this after on Friday’s discussion SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.
APDR
Assess, Plan, Do, Review.
ASCH
Adult Social Care and Health.
BI
Business Information. BRAG / BRAG on a page – Blue, Red, Amber, and Green traffic light system to assessing progress/completion of actions.
Cafcass
Children and Family Court. Advisory and Support Service.
CAMHS
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
CDC
Council for Disabled Children, improvement partner for the Nottinghamshire SEND Improvement Programme.
CEO
Chief Executive Officer.
CEx Assurance Meeting
Assurance Meeting between the Chief Executives of the Integrated Care Board and Nottinghamshire County Council with the Independent Chair of the SEND Partnership Improvement Board see Governance Structure on Slide 5 SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.
CFA
Children Family Act.
CLT
Corporate Leadership Team of Nottinghamshire County Council (Chief Execs /Corporate Directors).
COMF
Contain Outbreak Management COVID Fund.
CoP
Code of Practice.
Co-production
Is an approach where service users including parents and carers work together in an equal way, sharing influence, skills, and experience to design, deliver and monitor services. Co-production acknowledges that service users have knowledge and experience that can be used to help make services better, not only for themselves but for other people who need them. Co-production means that service users are involved in planning and designing services from the very beginning.
CPD
Continuing Professional Development.
CQC
Care Quality Commission.
CSC
Children’s Social Care.
C&F
Children and Families.
C&YP/ CYP
Children and Young People.
D-I
DCO
Designated Clinical Offer.
DCS
Director of Children’s Services.
Delivery Plan
A delivery plan should outline how priorities / outcomes will be achieved. It should include the activities/ milestones, dates and who is responsible for delivering the priority or outcome.
DFE
Department for Education.
DSG
Dedicated school’s grant.
EHC
Education, Health, and Care.
EHCNA
Education, Health Care Needs Assessment.
EHCP
Education, Health, and Care Plan.
ELT
Extended Leadership Team at Nottinghamshire County Council.
EP
Educational Psychologist.
EPS
Educational Psychology Service.
EXEC Group
SEND Executive Leadership Group see Governance Structure SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.
FE
Further Education.
FIS
Family Information Service.
FLT
Flex Learning Team.
FNF
Family Network Funding.
FTE
Full-Time Equivalent (see also WTE).
GCSE
General Certificate of Secondary Education.
GLD
Good Level of Development.
GP
General Practitioner.
GPRCC
GP Repository for Clinical Care.
Graduated Approach
A model of action and intervention in early education settings, schools, and colleges to help children and young people who have special educational needs. The approach recognises that there is a continuum of special educational needs and that, where necessary, increasing specialist expertise should be brought to bear on the difficulties that a child or young person may be experiencing.
Health
Primary care, Secondary (acute) Care, Tertiary care and Community Care Providers.
HCP
Healthy Child Programme.
HELAC
Health Looked After Children.
HI
Hearing Impairment.
HLN
High level Needs.
HNB
High Needs Block Budget(part of the DSG).
HMCI
His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills.
HV
Health Visitor.
ICB
Integrated Care Board.
ICDS
Integrated Children’s Disability Service.
ICS
Integrated Care System.
IDACI
Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index.
ICDS
Integrated Children’s Disability Service.
IEP
Individual Education Plan.
IHCP
Individual Health Care Plan.
ILACS
Inspection of Local Authority Children’s Services.
ILEAP
Inclusive Leisure Education Activity.
Inclusion/ inclusive education
Education that includes everyone, with non-disabled and Disabled people (including those with “special educational needs”) learning together in mainstream schools, colleges, and universities.
IPBS
Intensive Positive Behaviour Support Project.
ISP
Independent Specialist Provision.
IST
Intensive Support Team.
J-P
JSNA
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.
KPI
Key Performance Indicator(s).
KS
Key Stage i.e Key Stage 2 (KS2).
LA
Local Authority.
LAC
Looked After Children.
LD
Learning Disability.
LGA
Local Government Association.
LO
Local Offer.
Local Offer
Local authorities in England are required to set out in their Local Offer information about provision they expect to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people in their area who have SEN or are disabled, including those who do not have Education, Health, and Care (EHC) plans. Local authorities must consult locally on what provision the Local Offer should contain.
LTP
Local Transformation Plan.
MAC
Maintain, Amend or Cease in relation to an annual review of an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
MASH
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub.
MAT
Multi Agency Trust.
MEG
Multi-Agency Panel (Health)
MIS
Maximising Independence Service.
MIS
Management Information System.
NBS
Neurodevelopmental Behaviour Support Service.
NCC
Nottinghamshire County Council.
NDTI
National Development Team for Inclusion.
Local Area
Nottinghamshire.
NEET
Not in Education, Employment or Training.
NHS
National Health Service.
NHSE
National Health Service England.
NPCF
Nottingham Parent Carer Forum.
OFSTED
Office for Standards in Education.
ORS
Outcome Rating Scale.
OT
Occupational Therapy.
PACT
Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy.
PAIG
Partnership Assurance & Improvement Group.
PAP
Priority Action Plan.
Partnership Improvement Board
SEND Partnership Improvement Board meeting see Governance Structure SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.
P/C
Parents and Carers.
PCF
Parent Carer Forum.
PEP
Personal Education Plan.
PfA(T)
Preparation for Adulthood (team).
PID
Project Initiation Document.
PIP
Partnership Improvement Plan.
PT
Services Physiotherapy.
PVI
Private, Voluntary, and Independent.
Q-Y
QA
Quality Assurance.
QoL
Quality of Life.
Q1,2,3 and 4
Quarter 1,2,3 and 4.
RAG
Red, Amber, Green Rating.
RISE
Research and Improvement for SEND Excellence.
RWM
Reading, Writing and Maths.
SDQ
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.
SEF
Self Evaluation Framework.
SEMH
Social, Emotional and Mental Health.
SEN
Special Educational Needs.
SENCO
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator.
SEND
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
SENDAR
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Assessment and Review Service.
SENDIAS
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information and Advice Service. Locally known as Ask US.
SENS
SEN Support.
SFSS
Schools and Family’s Specialist Services.
SICP
SEND and Inclusion Change Programme.
SLCN
Speech, Language and Communication Need.
SALT
Speech, and Language Therapy.
SMART
Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely.
SN
School Nurse.
SPG
Strategic Planning Group.
SPA
Single Point of Access.
SRO
Senior Responsible Officer.
SRO
Meeting Informal meetings of the SEND Senior Responsible Officers from the Integrated Care Board and Nottinghamshire County Council.
SRS
Session Rating Scale.
Stakeholders
SEND Programme Stakeholder Register.xlsx.
STS
Specialist Teaching Service.
TA
Teaching Assistant.
TCP Transforming Care Partnership
The Partnership Nottinghamshire’s SEND Partnership spans a broad range of partners, services, and stakeholders. This includes the Integrated Care Board (ICB), Healthcare Providers, education settings (from early years through to FE including mainstream maintained, academies, special schools and independent and Alternative Provision (AP) providers), Local Authority Services, parents and carers and our key stakeholders, children, and young people.
ToR
Terms of Reference.
VCS
Voluntary Community Services.
WSOA
Written statement of Action.
WTE
Whole Time Equivalent (see also FTE)
YP
Young Person.