Barnardo’s SUTTON SEND TRANSFORMATION

Service Design | Learning Partner

Barnardo’s and London Borough of Sutton

Barnardo’s and the London Borough of Sutton have commissioned Dartington Service Design Lab as a learning partner to support their work in co-designing and implementing a more consistent and inclusive multi-disciplinary model of support for children and young people with SEND and additional needs to improve their lived experiences within Sutton.   

This work is being developed as part of wider systems change in relation to SEND support for councils in England and how provision operates, ensuring accessibility and appropriate support at the right time. The council recognise the need for change and development of their SEND local offer, and to explore how this is being navigated by families and professionals involved in SEND support from early years through to young people preparing for adulthood.

 

 The need

A multi-disciplinary staff team from the London Borough of Sutton and Barnardo’s have worked together to develop three strand areas of activity for the project which is in its initial year. These teams involve mutli-agency insights from health, psychology, and education to develop a broad perspective on the changes being developed. The aims of the project relates to the following areas:

Aim 1: Children and young people parents/carers and professionals will be able to make positive and informed choices about the support that is available in the local area.

Aim 2: To develop a multi-disciplinary model of practice across education, social care, health, and community partners that provides the right services to young people, in the right place at the right time to improve outcomes and help prepare young people for adulthood.

Aim 3: To strengthen confidence and resilience in the local area to improve the lived experience of children and young people/families with SEND.

These aims will be underpinned by a number of engagements with stakeholders, and products developed and tested with professionals, children, young people, and their families.

Our response

Dartington Service Design Lab is commissioned to work with the project from October 2023 to July 2024 to function as both a Learning Partner and Service Design Specialist for London Borough of Sutton.  We will work collaboratively to:

  • Help increase collective understanding of the Sutton SEND system of support/pathways designed at a community level as well as multi-agency partnership level.  

  • Take a participatory-led approach throughout with Children, Young People & Families (CYPF) and key stakeholders.   

  • Guide the co-creation and testing of impactful, equitable and efficient systems of support for children, young people and families with SEND and additional needs (in Sutton.)

  • Collate insight learning of what works and identify enablers and barriers to service access and involvement for diverse families within Sutton.

 
 

The work was launched in October 2023 and will run until February 2024

 For more information, contact:   Tim Hobbs