Isles of Scilly Children’s SEND Inclusion Charter

​The Council’s Children’s Services team have worked with local parents and children as well as the school, early years providers and social care to produce an Inclusion Charter aimed at developing an inclusive culture and improving services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities on the islands

Isles of Scilly Children’s SEND Inclusion Charter

Developing an inclusive culture and better services for children and young people with SEND

  • What is co-production

  • Everybody working together for the benefit of children and young people

  • Starts at ideas

  • Open, honest and transparent communication

  • Everybody’s contribution is equally valued and respected

Everybody working together for the benefit of children and young people

  • Everyone is enabled and empowered

  • Everyone will feel safe and supported

  • Process will grow with the child and be appropriate

  • The process will feel effective

  • Focus on the positives

  • Children and young people always at the centre

  • Families feel that someone has got your back

Starts at the conception of ideas

  • What is actually happening?

  • Process is as important as the outcome

  • Have a clear picture of the ongoing journey

  • Overcoming the challenges right at the beginning

  • Processes will be reflective, dynamic, creative and flexible

  • Open honest and transparent communication

  • It will feel easy to express your views

  • Doors will be open - not closed

  • Use language in a supportive and jargon free way

  • Enable regular check ins

  • Listening and hearing

  • Compassion and clarity

  • Say things once and be clear about information sharing

Everybody’s contribution is equally respected

  • Barriers will not exist

  • See the person not the role

  • Being heard

  • Support each other to contribute

  • Small things matter

  • Responsive to individual need and take the time to understand needs

The Charter is the culmination of a process starting in April 2019, when the Rotherham Genuine Partnerships team from the National Alliance for Partnership Working visited Scilly. Events were held community wide with education, early  years, health, social care, young people, parents and the voluntary sector to develop our own locally agreed and understood approach to inclusion and partnership working using the ‘Four Cornerstones’ of inclusive practice and coproduction which are:

  • ​Welcome and care

  • Value and include

  • Communicate

  • Work in partnership

​​The Charter will be used to ensure that families, parents, carers, children and young people are fully involved in all strategic decisions that affect their lives and that inclusion is at the heart of our community as a human right which embraces all people irrespective of race, gender, disability, or other attributes which can be perceived as different.

​Councillor Joel Williams, Lead Member Children and Young People, commented:

“I’m delighted that partners have worked collaboratively to produce our Isles of Scilly Inclusion Charter. It is a real demonstration that all stakeholders have the right to be heard and valued equally. I believe it is an important document for improving our culture of inclusion and strengthening outcomes for children, young people and families.”