Outreach

Hull City Council have invested in six Outreach Services to support children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) to access education within mainstream settings. This includes those receiving SEN Support as well as those with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

The six services that make up the Outreach Partnership are -

• CITE Outreach Service - supports children and young people aged 3 to 18 with communication and interaction needs, including autism.
• Early Communication Team Outreach Service - supports children aged 3 to 7 with severe communication and interaction difficulties.
• Steps to Success Outreach Service - supports primary-aged children with social, emotional and mental health needs.
• Sensory Outreach Service - supports children and young people aged 3 to 18 with sensory processing differences.
• IncludeED Outreach Service - supports children in KS3 and 4 with social, emotional and mental health needs.
• Cognition and Learning Team Outreach Service - supports children and young people from 3 to 18 with moderate learning difficulties and specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia.

In addition to these teams, the Integrated Physical and Sensory Service (IPASS) also continues to operate. This team supports with visual, hearing and physical barriers to learning. Access more information on the IPASS website.

Tiers of support

The Outreach services in Hull provide three tiers of support to mainstream education settings -

Tier 1 - Universal Support

This comes in the form of a wide variety of city-wide training sessions and workshops, designed to upskill and empower the adults supporting children and young people in education. You can access the universal training schedule and access the appropriate booking forms by clicking in the ‘Training’ box at the top right of this page.

Tier 2 - School-Specific Support

At this level, our teams can offer training sessions and workshops tailored to whole-school needs. These can be booked by contacting the specific outreach teams directly and come in the form of twilights or used on whole school training days.

The second element of our Tier 2 support is our environmental support offering -

• Advice on how to enhance/adapt the environment to support the needs of all pupils
• Classroom strategies
• Suggested resources
• Advice and subject-specific support for groups/cohorts of pupils or subject specific in secondary schools

Tier 3 - Targeted Support

Our Tier three support involves supporting schools at an individual pupil level and involves:

• Includes coaching and mentoring for teaching staff and SENCOs
• Strategies and advice to support individual needs
• Useful resources to support pupils
• Evidence based approaches

Before submitting a referral for individual support (Tier 3), professionals should review the eligibility criteria on the ‘Eligibility Criteria’ page. This helps ensure all requirements are met and improves the likelihood of the referral being accepted.

The statements below apply to all Outreach services and should be confirmed before reviewing the specific eligibility criteria for each Outreach team:

• The children will require support above and beyond quality first teaching
• Children will attend a mainstream school setting
• The children will attend a Hull School
• The Hull School will have either contributed using the per pupil ratio model or buy in services as required
• Mainstream settings will ideally, unless due to exceptional circumstances, such as new in country, or unforeseen medical conditions, show they have implemented two terms of the Assess, Plan, Do, Review cycle to meet the child’s needs
• Children and young people will have consent from their parent carers/legal guardians to have Outreach Service involvement
• Setting and staff must have engaged with Tier 1 and/or Tier 2 support before submitting an individual referral