Acronmys

AET Autism Education Trust

AET Award in Education Training

AP Alternative Provision

ASD Autistic Spectrum Disorder

AY Academic Year

CAMHS Childrens Mental Health Services

CIN Child (ren) In Need

CIAG Careers Information, Advice and Guidance

CME Children Missing Education

CP Child Protection

CPD Continual Professional Development

CWaSW Children with a Social Worker

CYP Children and young people

D2N2 Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Growth Hub

DCHS Derby Community Healthcare Services

DCS Director of Children’s Services

DDICB Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board

Derby Promise Derby promises to support every young person in the city to live their best life. Together we’ll provide meaningful opportunities to get careers experience; for you to build your skills; and to give you the confidence to reach your full potential. Believe it. Achieve it.

Derby Sal Derby SENCO Advice Line

DHCFT Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

DPA Derby Pride Academy

DPEIA Derby Priority Education Investment Area

DSG Designated School Grant – funding from central government for special needs support

DSR Dynamic Support Register – for those at risk of needing a tier 4 hospital admission due to mental health

DWP Department for Work and Pensions

E4E Enterprise for Education

EBSNA Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance

EET Education, Employment and Training

EH Early Help (SC / EH = Social Care / Early Help)

EHCNA Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment

EHCP Education, Health, and Care Plan

EHE Elective Home Education

EHWB Emotional Health and Wellbeing

EITSS Early Intervention Targeted Support Services

ELSA Emotional Literary Support Assistants

EM East Midlands

EMCCA East Midlands Combined County Authority

EOTAS Education Other Than At School

EP Educational Psychologist

EWO Education Welfare Officer

EY Early Years

EYFS Early Years Foundation Stage

FE Further Education

FFT Friends and Family Test – NHS feedback tool

ICB Integrated Care Board

INMSS Independent Non-Maintained Special Schools

ISA Intensive Support Assistant

ITT Independent Travel Training

IYFA In Year Fair Access - a fair access protocol exists to ensure that children without a school place, especially the most vulnerable, are offered a place at an appropriate school as quickly as possible.

JSNA Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

JUCD Joined Up Care Derbyshire

KLOE Key Lines of Enquiry

KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5 Key Stages in the national curriculum, 

EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) = reception – age 4 to 5

KS1 Years 1 and 2 – infants – age 5 to 7

KS2 Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 – primary – age 7 to 11

KS3 Years 7, 8 and 9 – lower secondary – age 11 to 14

KS4 Years 10 and 11 – GCSE years – age 14 to 16 

KS5 Years 12 and 13 – sixth form – age 16 to 18

LA Local Authority

LAC Looked after Children

LAIP Local Area Inclusion Plan – a document required by the Department for Education that sets out what the local area plans to do to meet needs.

LAP Local Area Partnership

LD Learning Disabilities

MASH Multi Agency Safeguarding Hubs

MDT Multi-Disciplinary Teams

MH Mental Health

MHST Mental Health Support Team

MLD Moderate Learning Difficulties

ND Neurodiversity

NDTI National Development Team for Inclusion

NEET Not in Education, Employment or Training

NMSS Non-Maintained Special School

OW Offensive Weapon – (reason for suspension / exclusion)

PAA Physical Attack - adult

PAP Physical attack - pupil

PCF Parent Carer Forum

PDB Persistent Disruptive Behaviour

PEIA Partnership Education Investment Areas

PEX Permanent Exclusions

PfA Preparing for Adulthood

PINS Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools – nationally funded initiative currently a pilot in primary schools 

PPE Personal Protective Equipment

PRU Pupil Referral Unit

PSG Primary Schools Group

PTT Part Time Timetable

QA Quality Assurance

RAG RED, Amber, Green, rating for performance indicators.

RONI Risk of NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) Indicator Tool

S19 Section 19 of the Education Act 1996 places a duty on local authorities that they must arrange suitable education at school or elsewhere for pupils who are out of school because of exclusion, illness or for other reasons, if they would not receive suitable education without such arrangements. In addition, the duty applies where a child has or is likely to be absent for 15 days or more (consecutively or not) [and the school is not providing educational support].

SaLT Speech and Language Therapy

SAO School Attendance Order

SEF Self-Evaluation Framework – a document required by the Department for Education setting out how the local area considers it meets needs.

SEN2 return Data that has to be submitted to the Department for Education annually.

SENCO Special Educational Needs Coordinator – works in an education setting

SEND Ambassadors Derby young people with special educational needs or disabilities that meet monthly 

SENIF Special Educational Needs Inclusion Fund

SC Social Care

SC / EH Social Care / Early Help

SI Supported Internships

SMART Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound

Solihull Offer Online advice available to all households in Derby.

SSG Secondary Schools Group

UHDB University Hospitals Derby and Burton

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation

VAA Verbal Abuse or threatening behaviour towards an Adult

VAP Verbal Abuse or threatening behaviour towards a Pupil

VS Voluntary Services

WASP Without A School Place

WASP ISP Without A School Place Intensive Support Assistant

YG Youth Guarantee (funding for Derby Promise)

YJS Youth Justice Service / System

YOS Youth Offending Service – now referred to as the Youth Justice System (YJS)

YTD Year To Date