For decision-makers in education

UK-wide

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  Quality standards - Resource provisions for deaf children and young people in mainstream schools.pdf (1.01 MB)
  • Document

    Quality standards - Resource provisions for deaf children and young people in mainstream schools - Welsh version.pdf (1.05 MB)
  • Document

    Self-evaluation tool - Quality standards for resource provisions.doc (358.5 KB)
• Document

  Stepping Up - Quality standards for young deaf learners in further education.pdf (4.41 MB)

England

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  Quality standards Early years support for children with a hearing loss aged 0 to 5.pdf (1.74 MB)

   – quality standards for commissioners set out how health, education and care providers in England should work together to support deaf children to achieve key outcomes by the time they start school. 

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    Self audit tool - Quality standards - Early years support for children with a hearing loss 0 to 5.doc (209.5 KB)

The National Sensory Impairment Partnership (NatSIP) have published quality standards for education services for children and young people with sensory impairment in England.

• Quality Standards for Sensory Support Services in England (NatSIP)
• Quality Improvement Support Pack and Self-Audit Tool (NatSIP)

We've developed a series of template model service level agreements and specifications for commissioners and heads of specialist education services of provision for deaf children in England:

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  Template service level agreement for provision of education support to schools and early years settings.docx (159.1 KB)
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  Template service level agreement for provision of education support to colleges.doc (211 KB)
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  Template specification for specialist education service for deaf children.docx (172.22 KB)
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  Template service level agreement for a resource provision for deaf children.docx (655.94 KB)

In 2019, NHS England and NHS Improvement published new guidance for CHSWGs, developed in partnership with us and shaped by input from families across England.

To support CHSWGs in putting this guidance into practice, we’ve also created an audit tool to help monitor progress and identify areas for improvement.

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  What Works - CHSWG guide.pdf (1.55 MB)
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  CHSWG Audit tool.docx (24.74 KB)

Resources produced in collaboration with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists:

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  Recommendations for commissioning specialist speech and language therapy services.pdf (80.88 KB)
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  Person specification - Specialist speech and language therapist for deaf children and young people.pdf (64.33 KB)
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  Case study - Commissioning and service model for speech and language therapy services in Cheshire and Merseyside.pdf (190.32 KB)

Separately, the Royal College has worked with BATOD to produce new guidance on collaborative working.

• Best practice guidance for collaborative working between Qualified Teachers of the Deaf and Speech and Language Therapists

• Checklist of service alignment with legislation (NatSIP): A checklist to align your services with key duties and requirements set out in legislation and government guidance.
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  Specialist provision for hearing impaired children within mainstream schools - advice to commissioners.pdf (460.99 KB)

  This briefing explains what should be considered when proposing changes to specialist support for deaf children in mainstream schools in England. It's mainly intended to guide local authority commissioners responsible for services for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).