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Reference: FOI-521468846
Date of request: 05/06/2023
Title of request: SEND Standard operating Procedures

Dear Jacqui Prentice,

Please accept this e-mail as acknowledgement that your recent Freedom  of
Information request has been received by Reading Borough Council. You
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FOI Team

Reference: FOI-521469491
Date of request: 05/06/2023
Title of request: SEND SOPs

Dear Jacqui Prentice,

Please accept this e-mail as acknowledgement that your recent Freedom  of
Information request has been received by Reading Borough Council. You
should expect to receive a response within 20 working days from the date
your request was received.

Please note, if your request is received on a weekend or bank holiday your
request will be registered as being received on the next working day.

Kind regards,

FOI Team

Reference: FOI-521469491
Date of request: 05/06/2023
Title of request: SEND SOPs
Information request:

Dear Reading Borough Council,

Further to my earlier email today it appears that there should be the
following  SEND SOPs

002 Conduct Annual Review of EHCP

003 Manage SEN Finanace

004 Manage Phase Transfers

Please also provide me with the current and previous versions of the SOPS.

Yours faithfully,

Jacqui Prentice

Dear Jacqui Prentice,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your recent request received by the Council on 5 June 2023.

You have requested the following information under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000:

Further to my earlier email today it appears that there should be the
following  SEND SOPs

002 Conduct Annual Review of EHCP

003 Manage SEN Finanace

004 Manage Phase Transfers

Please also provide me with the current and previous versions of the SOPS.

Our response is as follows:

 This is attached.

 Please note these are the three documents we have been able to locate -
we have not been able to locate any previous versions. These are not
currently used documents.

On the Reading Borough Council Website there is a publication scheme where
you can [1]search previous Freedom of Information requests that have been
responded to, to locate an answer to a future FOI request.

If you are unhappy with this response to your request for information
under the Freedom of Information Act then you may ask for an internal
review. Please make a request in writing to the Information Governance
Team at [2][email address]. If you request such a review and are not
content with its outcome, then you have a right to apply directly to the
Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can
be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Kind regards,

FOI Team

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Dear Ms Prentice

Thank you for your email.

I have been advised that those documents had not been updated and so stopped being used a long time ago. BFFC did nit have the exact date staff stopped using them.

You asked of all current SEND policies.

The SEND Team advised they are no longer using SOPs and there are no current SOPs available. SEND is an area of practice that is heavily legislated. They are using the Children and Families Act 2014, the associated Regulations, The O-25 SEND Code of Practice 2015 and recent Case Law to underpin their practice in the team now.

Yours sincerely

Mr N Bullough
Customer Relations Officer
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Reference: FOI-521468846
Date of request: 05/06/2023
Title of request: SEND Standard operating Procedures
Information request:

Dear Reading Borough Council,

I have copies of the following internal procedures used by BFfC SEND team:

SOP SEND 001   Undertake EHC needs Assessment and Issue EHCP v1  dated
15-08-2019

SOP SEND 005   Hold mediation and Conduct Trribunals v1 dated 15-08-2019

Can you please provide me with the following or direct me to where I can
find them online:

1. copy of the current versions and all previous versions of the above 2
SOP SEND policies

2. A list of all SOP SEND policies

Yours faithfully,

Jacqui Prentice

Dear Jacqui Prentice,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your recent request received by the Council on 5 June 2023.

You have requested the following information under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000:

I have copies of the following internal procedures used by BFfC SEND team:

SOP SEND 001   Undertake EHC needs Assessment and Issue EHCP v1  dated
15-08-2019

SOP SEND 005   Hold mediation and Conduct Trribunals v1 dated 15-08-2019

Can you please provide me with the following or direct me to where I can
find them online:

1. copy of the current versions and all previous versions of the above 2
SOP SEND policies

2. A list of all SOP SEND policies

Our response is as follows:

This is attached

The SEND Team advised they are no longer using SOPs and there are no
current SOPs available.  SEND is an area of practice that is heavily
legislated. They are using the Children and Families Act 2014, the
associated Regulations, The O-25 SEND Code of Practice 2015 and recent
Case Law to underpin their practice in the team now.

On the Reading Borough Council Website there is a publication scheme where
you can [1]search previous Freedom of Information requests that have been
responded to, to locate an answer to a future FOI request.

If you are unhappy with this response to your request for information
under the Freedom of Information Act then you may ask for an internal
review. Please make a request in writing to the Information Governance
Team at [2][email address]. If you request such a review and are not
content with its outcome, then you have a right to apply directly to the
Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can
be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Kind regards,

FOI Team

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