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  • What happens and when - Year 11 (Age 15-16)

    and look at a range of options. Ask your school about post-16 support and planning advice. Apply for school sixth form or college place. Please visit www.sheffield.gov.uk/schools-childcare/apply-school-place for information on school sixth form or college place application deadlines. Check websites… on the course and setting. Think about what you will do on the remaining days and any support that you need. REMEMBER: The school year finishes early in Year 11. This is regardless of whether you are taking exams or not. It finishes either on the last Friday in June or earlier because of study leave. Check with your school in good time so you can plan what to do when you are not in school. Developing independence It is assumed you will be able to make many decisions for yourself once you turn 16. Services will often contact you direct. The Mental Capacity Act is about people age 16+ who are unable…

  • What happens and when - Year 12 (age 16-17)

    If you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan The annual review process continues. If you need support in the future from adult social care, you should be referred to the Transitions social care teams. If you need SEN Transport to get to your post-16 setting, you will need to re-apply each year. It is not an automatic entitlement after compulsory school age. You may want to ask your parent/carer to help with this. Your parents/carers will have to make a contribution. You may be able to get a 16-19 bursary to help with this cost. Ask your post-16 provider for information about… bursary to help with education costs. Ask your post-16 provider for more information. Developing independence You might want to think about independent travel training. This is to help you travel from home to college on your own. Friends, relationships and community Look at any out-of-school…

  • What happens and when - Years 13 and 14 (Age 17-19)

    If you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan The annual review process continues. Your EHC plan may be ceased if you are: accessing higher education (e.g. university) accessing paid work aged 18 or over and have left education and you no longer wish to do any further learning. leaving the local authority and moving to another area. If you need SEN Transport to get to your post-16 setting, you will need to re-apply each year. It is not an automatic entitlement after compulsory school age. You may want to ask your parent/carer to help with this. Your parents/carers… ask the Sheffield Carers Centre for a carer’s assessment when you turn 18. You might want to think about independent travel training. This is to help you travel from home to college on your own. Friends, relationships and community Look at any out-of-school/college activities you want to do…

  • What happens and when - Age 19-25

    If you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan The local authority can maintain an EHC plan until you turn 25. They will end/close the plan if you move onto higher education, paid work or leave education. As long as the EHC plan continues, the local authority must continue to review it each year. Relevant services should still be involved in the annual review process. If you have an EHC plan and leave education but then decide to return, the local authority will consider if the previous EHC plan should be reopened and renewed. This is only if you are under 25 years old. It is possible that you will have to go through the full EHC needs assessment if there have been major changes. Education, training and finding employment If you are 19, you cannot remain in a special school. This is unless you are doing a secondary education course that you started before you were 18…

  • Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans - Transition Guide

    and getting good support friends, relationships and being part of a community achieving as healthy a life as possible How to prepare for an annual review You may start to think more about what you want to do when you finish your education. Your school or college will talk to you about transition planning. They will give you some information. Before the annual review meeting discuss with school or college if it would be appropriate for you to attend the meeting. your school or college should ask for your views before the meeting and share this information. They will be able to help you with this. your school or college will arrange the annual review meeting. Let them know if you or your parent/carer cannot attend so that they can arrange a different date. your school or college will ask relevant professionals to attend. They will ask them to send up-to-date information about you…

  • Education, Employment and Training GCSEs and Help in Exams Transition Guide

    for GCSE exams. You can ask your school about other accredited qualifications. This is you are not working at the levels needed for GCSEs. Special schools have a curriculum for the needs of their pupils. Some focus on teaching life skills. Most offer fewer opportunities to get qualifications like… Arrangements. Some Access Arrangements can be given by a school or college based on your normal way of working. Access Arrangements like extra time are given by exam boards. Students must reach certain levels in approved assessments. Official assessors complete them so that you can be given this. Your school or college can arrange these assessments. Access Arrangements allow students with SEND or temporary injuries to do exams. This is without making changes to the level of the exam. Access Arrangements should have been talked about and put in place from Year 10. Access Arrangements…

  • Post 16 Education Transition Guide

    Post 16 Education - Transition Guide Post 16 Education You must continue in education or training until the end of the academic year when you turn 18. This could involve: full time study in a school, college or training provider an apprenticeship or supported internship full time work or volunteering (20 hours or more) combined with part time accredited study Post 16 Education Providers Sheffield has a range of post 16 education settings. Click on the buttons below to find out more. …

  • Careers Advice Transition Guide

    for those young people who have an EHC plan from Year 9 to Year 14. The schools’ advisers go to: Bents Green Talbot Seven Hills Holgate Meadows Heritage Park Advisers have a set amount of time. They use this time to go to each school. They work with the school to agree when they come in to talk to pupils during the school year. The offer to schools can include: attendance and input of personal careers guidance at EHC Plan annual review meetings. This is from Year 9 through to Year 14 personal careers guidance interviews attendance at post-16/parents’ events group work drop-ins Mainstream school careers advice Mainstream schools provide their own careers advice. They have a duty to do this. Please speak to your school or college for further information. Post 16 Careers Advice The Community Youth Services IAG Team can also give careers information…

  • Leisure Transition Guide

    club if agreed by SNIPS. This would either be: one session of up to 5 hours per week, during the school holidays, or alternate Saturday sessions of up to 5 hours during term time, or one session after school per week during term time A member of the SNIPS team will meet you to find out…

  • Decision making and mental capacity Transition Guide

    . Professionals in health, education or social care can ask for an independent advocate if needed. You can get help from an advocate at age 16+. Click on the logo below for more information. Decisions about EHC plans When you reach the end of compulsory school age some rights on EHC plans transfer from you parents to you. This is the last Friday in June of the school year in which you turn 16. These are: the right to ask for an EHC needs assessment the right to make decisions about the content of your EHC plan the right to ask that a particular education setting is named in your…