CN220350 - Therapies: SEN, Adoption Support Service and VSK (previously SC21032)

This lot relates to SEN Therapies that are looking to commission:

• Speech and Language (SLT)
• Occupational Therapy (OT) including varying OT approaches to addressing sensory processing differences.
• Physiotherapy (PT)

Adoption Partnership South East commissions the following therapeutic services:

• Therapeutic parenting training
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
• Theraplay
• Filial therapy
• Creative therapies, e.g. art, music, drama and play
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
• Non-Violent Resistance (NVR)
• Sensory integration therapy/Sensory attachment therapy
• Multi Systemic Therapy
• Mentalisation Based Therapy
• Psychotherapy
• Extensive life story work with a therapeutic intervention, where therapy is used to help the young person understand and cope with the trauma and difficulties that their life story work might revisit
• Short Breaks, where these include a substantial element of eligible therapeutic therapies
• Specialist Assessment that meets all of the following criteria:

o an in-depth assessment of the child and family's needs, with a focus on trauma and attachment and links to the assessment of support needs;

o led and undertaken by a suitably qualified clinician(s);

o for the purposes of the ASF, a qualified clinician is someone who diagnoses and treats patients, is suitably qualified and is licensed to practise via an appropriate regulator, such as the Health and Care Professions Council, for example a trained Clinical Psychologist or Attachment Psychotherapist; and

o results in a therapeutic support plan for the child(ren)/family.

Virtual School Head Teachers (VSHs) are responsible for promoting the educational achievement of all children looked after by the local authority. For some young people, a therapeutic approach or intervention may be required in order to support access to, or

engagement with, education.

Kent Children in Care (CiC), aged 3 to 18 years, are supported by Virtual School Kent (VSK). Pupil Premium Plus (PP+), Post 16 Pupil Premium Plus (P16PP+) or Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) funding may be used to pay for activities that:

a) improve the learning targets set out in children's Personal Education Plans (PEPs); and

b) encourage CiC to be more involved in and motivated by their education.

Therapeutic support provided under this lot should not be regarded as an alternative health provision or a replacement for therapy services that may be commissioned through the NHS. Services provided to support PEP targets often involve intensive specialist interventions or approaches required to maintain educational placements and promote progress.