Have you heard about our Professional Promise?

We’re asking for 5 mins of your time to see if you have heard about Hertfordshire’s Professional Promise by please completing a super short survey before 28 February.

The Promise underpins the new SEND Strategy 2022-2025 and frames how professionals should support children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs and /or disabilities and their families, no matter which organisation or service is delivering them.

The launch of the new SEND Strategy provides a perfect opportunity to remind ourselves of the Professional Promise.  The Promise was co-produced a few years ago with Herts Parent Carer Involvement (HPCI) and colleagues from health, education and social care services. It’s possible that with staff changes and a pandemic, some professionals aren’t familiar with the Promise; that’s fine.  We will use the survey information to support services to get to know it.  We ran the same survey this time last year and only 25% of respondents had heard about the Promise.  We’re hoping this number has increased and hope that when completing the survey you will  think of examples of how you are fulfilling the Promise in your day to day work.  These examples could then be shared with families to increase their confidence in our services.

We’re asking staff across children’s services, education and health care partners to complete this survey, so apologies in advance if you receive a link to the survey more than once!

 

Finally, if you haven’t yet had a chance to digest the SEND Strategy 2022-2025, then please do so.  In short, the SEND strategy is for all staff in Hertfordshire, who support CYP with SEND 0–25 years, across education, health and social care.  It sets out the actions we are taking together to achieve five ambitions: tailoring, enabling, providing, collaborating and succeeding.  It also helps families and young people in Hertfordshire, to understand the actions the SEND workforce is making to deliver inclusive, person-centred services across SEND.

 

Thanks so much for your help.  The Professional Promise survey closes 28 February.