From SEND register to staffing plan in one view
Need and capacity usually live in different documents. Bringing them together changes how deployment decisions get made.
In most trusts, need and capacity live in different documents. The SEND register sits with the SENCO. The staffing plan sits with the business manager. They meet a few times a year, usually when something has already gone wrong.
Two halves of one decision
Deployment is the point where need meets capacity. Decide it well and support lands where it should. Decide it blind and you get the familiar pattern: the loudest classroom wins, the quietest need waits, and nobody intended either outcome.
Bringing the two halves into one view does not make the decision for you. It makes the decision visible:
- Who needs support, and how much
- Who is available, and where their hours currently go
- What changes if you move an hour from here to there
Small moves, clearly seen
Most deployment improvement is not dramatic. It is a series of small, deliberate moves: an hour shifted, an intervention re-timed, a pupil picked up sooner. Those moves are easy to make and easy to miss. Seen together in one place, they add up to a strategy you can actually steer.