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Safeguarding
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 was published on Friday 20 May. As part of Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership’s ongoing commitment to Gloucestershire Schools through traded services, we are pleased to announce there will be two short webinars to go through the changes and what action you now need to take. Further details are available on the Bulletin Board at the above link.
As part of the Gloucestershire Safeguarding in Education Teams commitment through Traded Services we would like to offer all Traded Service schools the offer of an annual safeguarding audit from a member of the team. Please see the Bulletin Board at the above link for additional information.
Many communities have recently welcomed families from Ukraine. A number of schools are also delighted to have received applications for a range of employment roles and are mindful that some of the checks required pose a unique set of challenges due to the current circumstances caused by the recent Russian invasion. The Bulletin Board at the above link has further information.
All Schools
The Schools Critical Incident Support sheet has been updated for May 2022. Schools should familiarise themselves with emergency out of hours procedures including premises and site related emergency contractor call out information previously provided. Please see the Bulletin Board at the above link for further details.
Gloucestershire County Council launches the nationally advertised competition to identify an academy trust to run the new special school to open in September 2023. Further information is available on the Bulletin Board at the above link.
Please see the Bulletin Board at the above link for a newsletter produced by The Virtual School, which shares good practice, training and news regarding supporting previously looked after children.
This autumn, in line with Government’s Green paper for SEND ‘Right support, right place, right time’ Gloucestershire County Council will be making some key improvements to the EHC pathway which will make it a better experience for all. We are piloting two new digital EHCP portals and a new digital EHCP Audit Tool.
We have developed two new secure digital ‘one stop shops’ to make it easier for all relevant documentation to be accessed. There will be a ‘Professionals Portal’ and a ‘Family’s Portal’. Permissions will be granted to allow families, schools and other professionals to view and add documents throughout the process, so at any one time you will be able to track where a case is at and what the next stage is. Please see the Bulletin Board at the above link for further information.
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