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As a statutory child safeguarding partner, Shropshire Council is required to monitor settings safeguarding arrangements and compliance with Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.
We also need to ensure that the DSL information that we hold on record about your setting is correct as it will be used to ensure that operation encompass notifications are sent to the correct person within your setting/ school.
Please complete this form Education settings information, it should take no longer than 4 minutes to complete.
Please see updated information in relation to the Prevent Duty for Schools and Settings. Details on how to request information regarding your local CTLP (Counter terrorism local profile) can be found on slide 6 of the Prevent Information for Schools presentation.
The updated information has also been uploaded to the Shropshire Learning Gateway and SSCP website.
Following on from last year’s pilot, we are seeking your support again with our most vulnerable students. Last year’s project saw us tracking 310 young people identified as being at risk of disengagement and a priority from the 14 schools that took part.
The idea is to highlight your serious concerns / vulnerable students who need to be checked on over the summer as well as making sure they have gone on to their next stage in September. It may be beneficial to seek out the views of the following prior to completing the sheet:
Safeguarding concerns / mental Health etc by your DSL
Serious Behaviour concerns / exclusions / placed in AP etc by your Behaviour lead
Attendance by your attendance lead
We hope that this should be a fairly quick process, with these specialist people using their day-to-day knowledge. The details should be ready to hand over to the provider / employer etc as usual in September when you get the requests / confirmation of starting, so please do not gather any evidence for this exercise.
We will then contact the post 16 providers / employers to check that they have started their placement from the destinations data / September Guarantee that you are already giving us. We will alert them of the vulnerability that they have if they have started as expected but where they have not started the LA Careers Team will make personal contact as we try to get them onto a pathway and avoid them becoming NEET.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Geoff Renwick - Post-16 Improvement Adviser
Jo Brown - System Administrator and Data Coordinator
Post 16 Team
Shropshire primary schools are being invited to apply for a special travel tracker to help increase the number of pupils that walk or wheel to school.
Thanks to funding from Active Travel England, the Living Streets WOW Travel Trackers are available to all primary schools in the Shropshire Council area from September 2025. For more information, see this article.
For an up to date list of CPD provided by the Education Quality and Safeguarding Team, please visit this page on the SLG.
Shropshire Safeguarding Community Partnership are hosting a series of Spotlights which are in-person Safeguarding Workshops on key themes from learning, we are inviting frontline professionals, volunteers, managers at every level, and stakeholders from partnerships, services and settings to book on and attend.
Use this link to book onto all Spotlights Book onto SSCP multiagency Spotlight Sessions - In person across Shropshire
Or use the individual booking links below to book on, you will receive a confirmation email at the point of booking on, you will have the option to save this in your electronic calendar.
Please see the attached flyer from the Neurodevelopmental Practitioner team regarding 'Transitions in School' training that is being provided. This in-person training is for any member of staff working with autistic pupils aged 5-16 in mainstream and specialist schools.
 Date: 3rd November
 Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
 Venue: Shrewsbury Town Football Club
Join us for an inspiring day with three fantastic keynote speakers:
 Christopher Such
Author and expert in reading development
Dave McPartlin
Award-winning, BGT headteacher
Adam Kohlbeck
Deputy Headteacher and EduPulse co-founder
Don't miss this opportunity to be inspired and empowered! 
Take a look at the flyer attached and check out our keynote speakers here - https://bit.ly/44A0qoW
To book please email: admin@empowermat.co.uk
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AmazingCPD is delighted to have three events currently on offer for English leads:
English: Spoken Language (Speaking for Different Purposes)
The aims of this new course are to:
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consider the place of academic language in the classroom, how it might be implemented and the potential for sustaining improvement
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consider the role of academic language for English from: teaching to rehearsal; recall, to holding and retaining a line of thought
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develop a glossary of terms for a consistent approach to academic vocabulary within thinking across the school
Half Day Conference - Developing a Love of Language and Literature - The Key to Successful Learning
3rd June, 9:00 – 12:15 at The Wilfred Owen School
John Murray returns to Shropshire to deliver the keynote at our conference. John is an independent Literacy consultant, he works with schools throughout the UK to improve reading and writing standards, secure best practice and achieve outstanding results. John will open the session with a discussion on how becoming a lover of language and literature is the bedrock of great learning. Book here
Primary English Network
5th June, 13:30 – 15:00, online, with Chris Ogden. This meeting provides updates for Primary School English Subject Leaders to ensure they have the latest information to support their strategic role in schools. Networks this week:
9 top tips on how to effectively organise an online safety session for parents and carers
- How to maximise numbers at parent and carer sessions
- Different methods of promoting events to maximise attendance
- Methods of engaging parents to get them involved
Computer Coordinators’ Update
21st May, 13:30 - 15:00 or 16:00 - 17:30, online with Richard Smith and guest speakers Rebecca Franks (Flip Computing) and Chris Calver (VEX robotics). Ensure you are fully up to date in this mandatory subject area. |
We would like to offer primary schools in Shropshire a funded opportunity to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, one of the world’s leading performing arts organisations. The RSC is collaborating with the Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF), the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and the University of Exeter to run a large research trial of our Rehearsal Room Writing programme in Year 5 classes across England in 2025/26.
The Rehearsal Room Writing programme offers CPD training in Stratford-upon-Avon that provides teachers with a unique toolkit of drama-based materials and practices intended to stimulate pupil writing. Teachers consistently report the positive impact of these techniques on reluctant writers and the RSC’s recent major research project, Time to Act, provided evidence of the impact on pupil writing and attitudes to learning.
If you would like to discuss the project and the opportunity with our team, please contact research@rsc.org.uk.
Dr Matthew Collins
Senior Research Fellow
Creative Learning and Engagement
Royal Shakespeare Company Waterside | Stratford-upon-Avon | CV37 6BB
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Please find the QR code below that directs directly to the Shropshire Council Community hubs page where you will find information about where hubs are located and details of the support available in each of the Community hubs across Shropshire.
Community hubs bring together the community, health and voluntary sectors so that residents can access services and activities that empower them to live their best lives. We would be grateful if you could share the QR code in your school communication to parents/carers.
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Please find attached information regarding PACC’s Healthy Lives Programme. Registration is now open for Summer activities.
The Healthy Lives Programme is about supporting the physical and mental wellbeing of children and young people from the Shropshire SEND community, especially those from the Learning Disability and /or Autism communities. It is about making community-based activities accessible to this group, bringing together activity providers into one co-ordinated programme that offers meaningful opportunities to learn new skills, build confidence, make friends and get active. Importantly it provides these opportunities during the school and college holidays, a time families tell us can be difficult, when young people miss their friends and routines, and Parent Carers sometimes struggle to balance the demands placed on them.
Please could you share the attached with your team and share with any families who may benefit from registering for the programme.
As highlighted in the document, the programme is not childcare, does not provide 1:1 support and a PA or Parent Carer will need to support children/ young people at activities. We ask for a contribution of £5 per child/ young person per activity attended.
If you have any further questions, please get in touch
Abi Taylor
Community Support Strategic Lead- PACC
Preparation for Adulthood Navigator- PACC
Administration Support- Actio
www.paccshropshire.org.uk
www.actio.org.uk
We have seen several incidents involving dogs and early years children within Shropshire which have resulted in children being bitten.
Sadly, children are most likely to be bitten at home, by a familiar dog. Luckily most bites are preventable and close supervision is key. Here are some resources which you may find useful to share with parents and staff. Child-safety-around-dogs-fact-sheet-2023.pdf / Your-dog-and-your-new-baby-fact-sheet-2023.pdf (this factsheet is also available in a number of different languages at Free educational resources | Child Accident Prevention Trust).
The Dog's Trust also have an educational programme that may be of interest Free Learning Resources & Workshops for Teachers | Dogs Trust
It is important that if you become aware of a child being bitten that this is reported to FPOC to ensure that appropriate actions are taken to safeguard that child or others from further harm.
June sees the start of a year long project with Happiness For All CIC, Katie The Happiness Coach and the Lingen Davies Cancer Fund to support children in the region who have been affected by cancer.
Across all the Saturday mornings in June, the DiTella Group -who own The Loopy Shrew - have kindly donated a lovely space upstairs for the project to deliver 2 hourly sessions per morning.
10am-11am Session - 6/7 years up to 11 years old
11am-12noon Session - 11years old+
Group sessions are gentle, light, low-pressure, informal and practical - focussing on wellbeing techniques to support mental and emotional health.(Participants can share their experiences and feelings, but no one will be made to share or talk if they don't want to.)
Sessions with younger children will include activities such as crafts, and ALL sessions (no matter which age group) will give the children and young people heaps of ideas and ways to manage their feelings.
Sessions will be suitable for children and young people who are living with the emotional impact of a loved one being diagnosed with cancer. This might be a parent, sibling, grandparent, or anyone else they are close to. The sessions may not be suitable if the loved one is undergoing palliative care, please get in touch if this is the case and we will discuss it with you.
Unfortunately the sessions are not appropriate for young people who are bereaved. But anyone who is supporting a young person who is bereaved as a result of cancer, you can access support by emailing sath.macmillaninformation@nhs.net. There is also support available from Winstons Wish https://winstonswish.org/
Spaces are limited. For enquiries, please contact Katie@thehappinessclub.co.uk
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