Section outline

    • Enhancing partnerships between schools and social care
    • Training and development offer to schools & partners
    • Targeted data informed interventions / projects
    • Providing advice and guidance
    • Free tools, resources and information

     Virtual school heads are not being asked to:

    • work with individual children who have, or have had, a social worker or their families - including tracking and monitoring educational progress of individual children or providing academic or other interventions
    • respond to requests from parents or carers to offer advice, intervention and support in relation to individual children with a social worker
    • take responsibility for children with Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) who do not require or need a social worker, as defined above.