Children with a Social Worker
Section outline
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Supporting the Education of Children with a Social Worker
From September 2021, the Virtual School Head’s role has been extended to include the strategic leadership of promoting the educational outcomes of all children and young people with a social worker, or those who have had a support of a social worker in the past six years. It covers all children who are, or were, assessed as needing a social worker at any time in the past six years due to safeguarding and/or welfare reasons, which includes all those subject to a Child in Need plan or a Child Protection plan. This includes children aged from 0 up to 18 in all education settings.
Our key aims are to:
- make visible the disadvantages that children with a social worker can experience, enhancing partnerships between education settings and local authorities to help all agencies hold high aspirations for these children
- promote practice that supports children’s engagement in education, recognising that attending an education setting can be an important factor in helping to keep children safe from harm
- level up children’s outcomes and narrow the attainment gap.
Click here to access important resources, including:
- Virtual School Guide to PEPs, Statutory Duties and More
- The PEP Toolkit
- Course: Training Offer
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQs)
- Supporting Learning
- Reach to Teach App
- Early Years Resources
- Education Psychologists Consultations
- Attendance, Suspensions and Exclusions
- Admissions
- Governors
- Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
