The Portsmouth Special Educational Needs Support Partnership (PSENSP) is a new service, commissioned by the Local Authority, which is jointly delivered by Mary Rose School, Redwood Park School, Cliffdale School, The Harbour School and Willows Centre for families and children. It replaces the ‘Outreach’ Services previously delivered separately by these providers and will ensure that children and young people with SEN receive support from the most appropriate provider without you having to ‘shop around’.
Aims of the service:
To ensure consistent, high quality, unified support that:
- Improves outcomes for children and young people with SEN and disabilities to enable them to remain in mainstream education, where appropriate;
- Helps to maximise the educational opportunities for ALL children and young people;
- Helps to build the capacity and confidence to meet the needs of ALL children and young people;
- Works in partnership with families to build confidence that their children’s needs are being met;
- Works in collaboration with other service providers to ensure that services are complementary, simple to use, joined-up and effective.
What do we do?
The Service provides support in two ways:
- Targeted support aimed at individuals who require short term intervention;
- CPD for individuals or groups of staff working with pupils with SEN;
- A menu of the services that can be provided is available to be downloaded from this page.
How do you access our services?
A copy of our Operational Protocols for Partnership Working must be signed and returned by your Headteacher before support can be offered. A copy can be downloaded from this page.
To request support for a child or young person please complete and return a CYP request form or a CPD form if the request is for training. Copies of both forms can be downloaded from this page. Forms can be emailed to the PSENSP address but a signed hard copy of the form must be received before support can be offered.
Cost of services
Individual pupil support is provided free as part of the existing funding arrangements of the commissioned service. Initially CPD will also be provided free where possible, however if extensive training is required by a school then there could be a charge.