Secondary Schools/Academies
1. What is the AWPU that follows a pupil into a mainstream secondary school/academy within your local authority?
Learning Support Assistants/LSA
2. Within the local authority, what pay bands apply to teaching assistants/learning support assistants? Please list the entire pay scale for this profession within the local authority (based on levels of experience and seniority). Please list the bands and pay scales in monetary terms, without reference to a separate band/scale document or scheme. (When outlining the hourly rates, please outline any pension and national insurance contributions, when providing the figures).
3. Please list how the rates of pay are allocated for a teaching assistant/learning support assistant (e.g. level of training and experience)?
ASD Teaching
4. Does the local authority directly employ any specialist autism spectrum disorder (ASD) advisory teachers?
5. If yes, how many?
6. And if yes, what are the pay bands (in monetary terms, without reference to a separate band/scale document or scheme) for those teachers within the local authority? Please list pay scales of these professionals (based on levels of experience and seniority) in monetary terms, without reference to a separate band/scale document or scheme. (When outlining the hourly rates, please outline any pension and national insurance contributions, when providing the figures).
7. If there is such a service, how frequently did they visit:
Exmouth Community College, Gipsy Lane, Exmouth, EX8 3AF
in the academic year of 2021-2022? Please outline how much of this was general advice for the school and how much of this was for specific students at the school.
in the academic year of 2022-2023? Please outline how much of this was general advice for the school and how much of this was for specific students at the school.
8. If the local authority has to buy in additional teachers for students with ASD, please provide the average rate of pay per hour that the local authority will usually pay for buying in such services? Would travel costs be additional? If so, how are they calculated?
Speech and Language Therapy
9. Please provide a copy of the service level agreement between the local authority and the local NHS trust in relation to the level of provision of speech and language therapy, provided within maintained mainstream secondary schools within the authority.
10. What is the cost to the local authority of maintaining this service level agreement? Are speech and language therapy services under these contracts
11. How much speech and language therapy is provided under the service level agreement within mainstream secondary schools within the local authority for those without EHC plans?
12. How much speech and language therapy is provided under the service level agreement within mainstream secondary schools within the local authority for those with EHC plans?
13. On average (a rough estimate is acceptable), how frequently will speech and language therapists visit mainstream secondary schools within the local authority to provide speech and language therapy?
14. If speech and language therapy to be delivered by an independent speech and language therapist has to be procured by the local authority, what is the hourly rate that the authority will offer (please provide it in monetary terms)? Would travel costs be additional? If so, how would they be calculated?
15. Does the service level agreement include the therapies being delivered in a academies/free schools?
16. How often has speech and language therapy services visited Exmouth Community College in the last academic year (2021-2022)?
17. How often has speech and language therapy services visited Exmouth Community College in the current academic year (2022-2023)?
Occupational Therapy
The following questions are word-for-word identical to the previous section, but are repeated for the avoidance of doubt.
18. Please provide a copy of the service level agreement between the local authority and the local NHS trust in relation to the level of provision of occupational therapy, provided within maintained mainstream secondary schools within the authority.
19. What is the cost to the local authority of maintaining this service level agreement? Are occupational therapy services under these contracts?
20. How much occupational therapy is provided under the service level agreement within mainstream secondary schools within the local authority for those without EHC plans?
21. How much occupational therapy is provided under the service level agreement within mainstream secondary schools within the local authority for those with EHC plans?
22. On average (a rough estimate is acceptable), how frequently will occupational therapists visit mainstream secondary schools within the local authority to provide occupational therapy?
23. If occupational therapy to be delivered by an independent occupational therapist has to be procured by the local authority, what is the hourly rate that the authority will offer (please provide it in monetary terms)? Would travel costs be additional? If so, how would they be calculated?
24. Does the service level agreement include the therapies being delivered in a academies/free schools?
25. How often has occupational therapy services visited Exmouth Community College in the last academic year (2021-2022)?
26. How often has occupational therapy services visited Exmouth Community College in the current academic year (2022-2023)?
In response to questions 1-26, please our published response to a previous request:
Previous comments in relation to Glendinning Academy are equally applicable to Exmouth Community College
Transport
Please outline the cost of a taxi taking a student from EX8 5NR to Exmouth Community College, Gipsy Lane, Exmouth, EX8 3AF over 38 weeks (or a typical academic year).
This post code is within statutory walking distance, under 3 miles to the school so we would not provide transport