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Attachment Based Mentoring is a relational, child centred and holistic approach to supporting our most vulnerable children.

You can now register for UK Road Safety Week 2019.

Young Epilepsy has just launched a free online guide for schools on supporting young people with epilepsy.

Gloucestershire County Council has launched its new Social Work Academy and will be inviting schools to visit the Academy as part of the monthly visits to the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH).

At the launch of Operation Encompass earlier this year all schools were asked to circulate a letter to parents to outline the process.

A draft version of the sixth edition of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2019 (KCSIE), statutory guidance for schools and colleges, was recently published and subject to any further changes made between now and the final version will be in force from 2^nd September 2019. Until that time, schools and colleges must continue to have regard to KCSIE 2018.

There's just over 2 weeks left to join over 420 schools, colleges and youth groups in registering for the UK largest youth consultation; which determines what MYPs debate in the House of Commons and campaign on next year.

Reshaping Education Specialist Support Services update.

Now the school holidays are just around the corner, it’s time to check that all team members know key information relating to property emergencies, servicing and utilities to enable them to cover effectively when colleagues are on leave.

To enable Castle Water to allocate payments ensure you use the account number as reference going forward.

Gloucestershire County Council’s fostering service is reminding teachers to notify them of private fostering arrangements.

The Final 18/19 Academic Year Universal Infant Free School Meal Grant and the Provisional 19/20 Academic Year Universal Infant Free School Meal Grant will be made in July 2019.

Tim Browne, Director of Education, sent an update to all head teachers on 2 July to let them know that the changes to the council’s grading structure have now been agreed and will be implemented from 1 September.

A round-up of information and actions from the Education & Skills Funding Agency.

Please see attached the outcome report from the meeting held on 20 June 2019.

The EEF Guide to the Pupil Premium published in June 2019, recognises both the opportunity and the challenge created by the Pupil Premium, setting out a way of using evidence to inform decision-making. 

Gloucestershire’s second cohort of 25 Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSAs) began their training on October 3^rd 2018 and concluded their training on Wednesday 5th June 2019.  There are now 40 trained ELSAs in schools across Gloucestershire. 

The first session of 2019-2020 will take the theme of ‘Ofsted’s new Education Inspection Framework (EIF) and the 3Is – Part 1’.

Gloucestershire County Council intends to initiate a free school presumption competition process in September 2019 when it will formally invite academy trusts to apply to run a secondary aged special school for children and young people aged 11 -16 with Social Emotional and Mental Health needs.

As part of the SEN Futures programme, Social Finance have been appointed by the Department for Education to test whether it is possible to conduct a national Value for Money study of SEN provision - looking at the relationship between support costs within settings and the outcomes that pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans achieve.

As the UKs leading child protection charity the NSPCC are committed to making sure they are there to help schools around  the country keep their pupils safe.

Gloucestershire County Council is pleased to announce the development of a new support service for young people in Gloucestershire.

Reminder: Governing bodies and proprietors should ensure there are procedures in place to manage concerns/allegations, against staff or volunteers.  Such allegations should be referred to the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) (para 91, p23, KCSiE 2019)

Reminder: If staff have any concerns about a child’s welfare, they should act on them immediately (Para 22, P8, KCSiE, 2019).

An error has been found on the Area Finance Academy 19-20 Staff Costings 1 year and 4 year for April 2020- August 2020. This error will result in staff being under costed as any April 2020 point increment has not been applied.

Guidelines for including Hate Incidents/Crimes in existing Anti-Bullying Policies, have been produced by the County Education Hate Crime Working Group.

Schools are requested to submit their GCSE results as soon as possible using the proforma attached.

Now the school holidays are around the corner, the following advice will help you to prepare for the summer months.

Runs 13^th July – 7^th September 2019 In all Gloucestershire Libraries.

Space Chase will take young readers on an out-of-this-world adventure inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.

Time To Read is a campaign delivering free books to reception aged children across England during the autumn term.

Venue: The Pavilion, Hatherley Lane, Cheltenham, GL51 6PN

Cost: £75.00 per delegate

Refreshments and lunch provided.

For the majority of NQTs, completed NQT assessment reports should be returned to: NQTs@gloucestershire.gov.uk by 25^th June 2019. 

EIS have temporary Locality Inclusion Lead arrangements for Stroud and Cotswold schools until 31^st August, plus new Inclusion Officers joining the team.

Agendas for the full day primary and secondary English, mathematics and science subject leader networks are now available.

Date: 11^th September, 9.15am - 12.00pm  

Venue: Gloucester Rugby Club, Kingsholm Stadium, Kingsholm , Gloucester GL1 3AX

Those schools that have a reliable data feed between their database and the LA database will no longer need to make a manual notification of 10 days continuous unauthorised absence. However, those schools and academies that do not share their data with the LA in this way will continue to need to make a manual notification in order to meet their responsibilities under The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006 as amended.

Most schools and academies have an effective system for notifying the local authority when a pupil is following a part time timetable (and when this ceases) but some schools do not do this as consistently. In line with Ofsted recommendations, we continue to require schools and academies (including AP Schools) to notify the Local Authority if a registered pupil is not receiving a full time education and therefore following a part time timetable.

The Stroud News & Journal are seeking nominations for their Pride of the Cotswolds Awards.

When: 1.00 pm until 3.30 pm, Tuesday 11^th June 2019.

Where: TRAC – Tom Roberts Adventure Centre, Yates Farm, Malswick, near Newent, Gloucestershire, GL18 1HE (https://www.tracnewent.org.uk/).

Cost: £45.00 per head, with refreshments provided upon arrival and throughout the afternoon.

Deadline for bookings: Friday 7^th June 2019.

All EYFS and Key Stage 1 assessments should be returned to the LA from 3rd June 2019 but no later than midday on 24th June 2019.

Network Rail will be working on the railway west of Gloucester station, this means that trains cannot call at Gloucester on Sunday 21^st or Monday 22^nd July and there will be limited service using platform one only from Tuesday 23^rd to Friday 26^th July with normal service to/from Gloucester resuming from Saturday 27^th July. 

The Gloucestershire SEND Commissioning Strategy sets out our assessment of the needs of children and young people in Gloucestershire with SEND and how we aim to meet them. 

On Wednesday 26 June, thousands of children aged 4-11 will put their best feet forward to promote road safety and the benefits of walking.

The Cycle to Work scheme is a government initiative that allows employees to have use of a brand new bike and safety equipment (tax free).

For details of your allocation please go to Teachers’ Pay Grant 19 / 20.

Gloucester College have 70 exam tables and 20 science stools available to any school who are able to collect them.

The new Secondary School Governor (Maintained) Representative is Dr Adam White, Pittville School, (term of office 4 years, to 31 March 2023).

The resources from the April/May briefings are now available at  Resources: HT and COG Briefing April/May 2019

In Spring 2018 we conducted a county-wide snapshot survey of Nurturing Practice and Nurture Groups in Gloucestershire.

Property Maintenance Apprenticeship for Schools

There are spaces available on this two year apprenticeship (with one day release at Gloucester College) from September.  For more information and details on how to apply please visit Schoolsnet.

School Business Professional Level 4

There are spaces available on this apprenticeship.  For more information please visit Schoolsnet.