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A Frontline Professionals Survey.

Please find attached the latest COVID-19 school briefing.

RE Today Services I NATRE are providing RE teacher support products and services as a fully integrated support package.

Please find attached the 7 May COVID-19 School Briefing.

Can plants enrich your teaching? 

Survey for Teachers, TAs and others in schools.

Please find attached the latest COVID-19 briefing for schools.

Internal Audit’s activity within schools is prioritised based on risk and as such a sample of Primary schools, Secondary schools, Special schools and Alternative Provision schools were audited during 2019/20. Individual reports were issued to each school where a number of recommendations were made. As these findings could apply to other schools, the information is being shared with all schools.

The pupil number forecast is now available to download; it is a likely indication of your pupil numbers over future years to enable you to plan provision.

The pupil number forecast is now available to download; it is a likely indication of your pupil numbers over future years to enable you to plan provision.

Attached is the latest COVID-19 school briefing covering recent updates from the DfE and LA services.  This includes some information about the laptops for disadvantaged children that the Secretary of State announced this week and guidance regarding the forthcoming bank holiday.

Based on the value of the meetings already held and as part of Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Executive’s on-going commitment to Gloucestershire Schools through these unprecedented times, they have set up some additional dates for the virtual meetings for Designated Safeguarding Leads.

The Music Works is having to change some of the ways they do things in response to the coronavirus outbreak and resulting social distancing measures.

They are continuing to do whatever they can to help young people across Gloucestershire fulfil their potential by making the music they want to make.

The Music Works has helped young people across the county write a song to say thank you to the frontline workers. It is now in demo form and we'd love to have as many young people to record versions; singing, playing, dancing, expressing thanks while at home and send to us. 

Due to the changes affecting school meals/ activities currently, the refund process on ParentPay is changing temporarily.

The new Ofsted Framework, published in May 2019 for inspections from September 2019, and the research reports leading to this Framework show the importance of the ‘intent’ of the curriculum.
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Please find attached the latest COVID-19 school briefing. 

Please find attached the 23 April COVID-19 school briefing. 

As we become accustomed to new ways of working, some of the queries that the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Executive have been receiving are particularly around safeguarding pupils whilst they learn remotely.

The Safeguarding in Education Team has developed a special Covid-19 one minute guide on Structured and Difficult Conversations during this unprecedented time.

The MOD have recently opened up applications to their education support fund.

Please find attached the latest guidance from the Department for Education.

Please find attached the 16 April school briefing.

Please find attached the 15 April school briefing, focusing on appeals and parent pay.

In response to multi-agency learning from a number of recent Serious Case Reviews undertaken in Gloucestershire, the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Executive has produced a Practice Briefing on Professional Curiosity.

Due to the changes affecting schools meals/ activities currently, the refund process on ParentPay is changing temporarily.

Please find attached today’s school briefing following updated guidance issued by the DfE.

How good are children at saving and spending money?

Thank you to all of you who have been feeding your information, queries and concerns to your partnership and association chairs over the past few weeks. This has been extremely helpful in enabling us to best understand the pressures you are facing and using the DfE guidance to make pragmatic decisions for the LA, schools, children and families.

During this difficult time the Business Service Centre (BSC) is working to ensure that arrangements are in place for all groups of paid staff. With that in mind, this communication outlines the Council’s position on processing payments to claims based (zero-hour and casual) staff.

Please find attached today’s briefing highlighting key points and links to the full guidance.

Please find attached the 6 April 2020 briefing, picking up on some of the key outstanding areas.

E-Bug is an exciting, fun and free microbiology, hygiene and health education resource for children and young people from ages 4 – 18.

As part of Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Executive’s on-going commitment to Gloucestershire Schools through these unprecedented times, they have set up some virtual meetings for Designated Safeguarding Leads.

Please find attached our latest briefing, covering a number of areas which respond to school queries.

With the ‘normal’ way of working being heavily disrupted we appreciate your plans for the submission of budget plans on the May 22nd 2020 may have been affected.

Please find attached further information regarding our response to vulnerable children at this time.

The Safeguarding in Education Team has developed a special Covid-19 one minute guide on the role of the DSL during this unprecedented time.

The Safeguarding in Education Team has produced, for all Educational Settings that purchase their Traded Service, an Annex for the settings Child Protection Policy, as suggested in the Department for Education (DfE) guidance issued on 27^th March 2020 (found here).

Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Department for Education (DfE) has suspended the 2020 Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE) consultation.

Due to the current closure of schools, it is with regret that we have made the decision to close the 2020 Pupil Wellbeing Survey (PWS) with immediate effect.

Due to the current Covid -19 situation, this requirement has been postponed, and therefore the information is no longer required for 2019-20.

The Department for Education has produced guidance on the new voucher scheme for Free School Meals.

Please find attached the latest school briefing, which includes some important changes to DfE guidance which took place over the weekend.

We have been advised that DfE guidance on FSM will not be published until next week.

ThinkuKnow have created packages to help support children and their families over the coming weeks and months and have launched #OnlineSafetyAtHome

Please see attached additional guidance on safe working practices at these times and updates from traded services and HR.

Gloucestershire’s councils and partners have created a community help hub to connect local people who need help, with others who can provide the support they need.

Thank you for your on-going work in supporting children so those critical to our coronavirus response can continue to do what is necessary for the country. It is a constantly changing picture and you are all working incredibly hard to do all that is being asked of you.

RE Today, in partnership with NATRE, have produced a series of free, quality assured online resources to support parents and their children with the provision of RE activities for use during the coronavirus crisis.

The following advice will go a long way to helping you secure yourself online.