You will receive a letter from the Area Education Manager inviting you to the
Co-ordinated Support Plan Meeting. This should be held approximately 14 weeks from the date of the letter informing you of the intention to establish the need for a CSP, the “Notice of Proposal”. Before the meeting your CSP Co-ordinator will be in touch with you and you will be sent a copy of the draft Co-ordinated Support Plan (CSP).
The Co-ordinated Support Plan meeting will be chaired by the Area Education Manager and attended by parents, child (if appropriate) or young person and your Co-ordinated Support Plan Co-ordinator. Other professionals are not usually invited to the
Co-ordinated Support Plan meeting keeping it small and personal for your family, though in the case of Looked After Children the Social Worker will also be invited.
Parents, children or young people may have a friend, supporter or advocate with them at the meeting if they wish. (CHIP+ staff can provide support)
The Area Education Manager will lead a discussion on the content of the draft plan. Should any amendments be necessary these will be agreed by all and noted on the Plan by the Area Education Manager.
The Area Education Manager will take responsibility for having the final Co-ordinated Support Plan typed up. Once typed it will be signed by the Area Education Manager and sent out to parents, young people, the school, Area Children's Service Managers, the Additional Support for Learning Co-ordinator and other relevant professionals involved in its provision. This must be done within 16 weeks of the 'Notice of Proposal' to draw up a plan being sent out.
The Co-ordinated Support Plan must be reviewed every 12 months.
Your Co-ordinated Support Plan Co-ordinator will ensure that a review schedule is in place and will keep families, children and young people and the relevant professionals alerted to the need to set the date for a review. The CSP Admin team will assist in this.
The annual review must be started after 12 months and completed within a 12 week period. Within that time the views of the relevant professionals, your views and those of your child/young person will all be sought.
At each review the decision will be made to continue the plan, make amendments to it or to discontinue it. Parents, young people and professionals can request an earlier review if the child or young person's needs change significantly.
The review meeting date will be set for the end of that 12 week period and will usually be chaired by a member of the school's Senior Management Team. The chair will inform parents, young person, professionals, the Co-ordinated Support Plan Admin Team and the Area Education Manager of the date by letter.
Parents, children or young people may have a friend, supporter or advocate with them at the meeting if they wish. (CHIP+ staff can provide support)
The chair will send the reviewed CSP to the Area Education Manager for authorisation.