Citizens Advice Northumberland provides free, confidential, and impartial advice to support individuals and families across our community. We aim to empower people with the knowledge and tools to navigate challenges and make informed decisions. Our services cover a wide range of issues, including:– Welfare benefits support– Debt and budgeting advice– […]
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Funding Information Reminder, you can find all updated funding information; including Parent declaration forms, Key dates & hourly rates here. Accident Prevention Shared on behalf of Northumberland Children and Young People Safety Reference Group, which the EY Team attended on the 19th March. Falls across all ages remain an issue both locally and nationally. Therefore, falls are a key priority area over the April and June period. We would like to invite all
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Limited Spaces Available- Sign up by 10.04.26 Fully funded by the North of Tyne Combined Authority 29 April 2026 – 9:00 to 16:00 Holiday Inn, Seaton Burn Northumberland schools are invited to a vibrant, practical day exploring how creativity can strengthen wellbeing, inclusion and engagement for children and young people. Designed
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Dear colleagues, The Department for Education (DfE) recognises and supports the importance of having a professionalised school business profession where every individual is well-qualified, working towards qualification, or suitably skilled. This includes school business professionals (SBPs) having access to high-quality training, underpinned by employers who understand and support their SBPs
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Dear Colleagues, Please find a link to our Spring 2 edition of the Safer in Education newsletter.
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Some of you may have come across HeadsUp4HTs. They provide mental health and wellbeing support, leadership support, peer to peer support, coaching, and crisis support to senior leaders. James (the founder of HeadsUp) has worked with the utilities industry to provide switch4good – when your parents/community switch energy or broadband
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Working Together to Safeguard Children- Update DfE has recently updated Working together to Safeguard Children, its statutory guidance on multi-agency working to safeguard children in England. The guidance applies to all organisations and agencies in England who have functions relating to children, setting out how they can work together to support
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British Cycling – Level 1 Ride Leader Training Have you been wondering about taking part in a Ride Leader training course? If you or a member of staff at your school would like to take part or find out more please complete this form or email tracy.aitken@northumberland.gov.uk British Cycling Ride Leader Level 1 Course This a full day course with an additional 3-4
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Is your defibrillator ‘rescue ready’ and visible to 999? Over 14,000 schools have registered their defibrillators on the national defibrillator database, The Circuit, but did you know almost 7,000 schools have defibrillators that emergency services can’t see? A cardiac arrest can strike anyone, at any time. The Circuit has been updated to make
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Health Improvement (HIMP) Training Programme Please find details of our current training courses below together with the attached catalogue which gives further details on all of our courses which are currently delivered over Microsoft Teams, unless otherwise stated. Please feel free to forward this email to any of your contacts who you
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Overview Please see attached. This phase of the programme will be led by local authorities, who have been invited to develop multi-year funding proposals that outline project plans for new or expanded SBNs in their area, located in state-funded primary schools, Maintained Nursery Schools (MNS) and Best Start Family Hubs (BSFH). The
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There are some great apprenticeship opportunities on the jobs board this week – Search Jobs
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Northumberland Local Code of Practice – April 2026 Please find attached the updated NLCoP. This will shortly be available to read and accept within your wizard account. New Parent Declaration Form Please find attached the new parent declaration form. This is in a new format and must be used for new
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Each of the pay bands at NCC has levels that colleagues progress through with each new financial year (up until they reach the top increment in the band) and these are called spinal column points (SCPs). As part of the 2025 Local Government Pay Award, it was agreed that spinal
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As part of our support offer to help Northumberland schools digest the Ofsted Inspection Toolkit, we are delivering an online session to help you unpick the Inspection Toolkit for Early Years in Schools. This session is suitable for headteachers, Early Years Leaders, reception teachers and nursery teachers. The session will take place
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Dear Colleagues and Partners in Schools Northern Powergrid is currently developing its business plans for 2028–2033. These plans include important initiatives to ensure we have a robust, resilient, and skilled workforce in place to deliver a substantial future work programme across our region. To achieve this, we must ensure we are
There are still places available on our Alcohol Awareness training on Tuesday 24th March 2026, 11.00 am to 12.00 noon, should you wish to attend. Please feel free to forward this email to any of your contacts who you think might be interested in attending. Please note that if you want
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The HINT Specific Learning Difficulties Team are running a free face-to-face Dyslexia Awareness training session at County Hall, Morpeth on Tuesday 24th March 2026 from 3.45-5.15pm (in Conference Room 2). The aim of the session is provide school-based staff with a basic understanding of dyslexia: what it is, common characteristics, how this can affect the individual and ways to support them in
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Connected Readers: Grow a reading for pleasure culture 📅Tuesday 19 May 2026📍The Common Room, Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 1SE This FREE one-day conference brings together educators with external partner organisations to explore how collaborative approaches can build and sustain a strong reading for pleasure culture across school. To celebrate the National Year of
The DfE have released further supporting guidance for teachers completing the EYFS Profile at the end of the reception year. Click here to access the resources: Help for early years providers : EYFS profile assessment support
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Early Learning for Twos (ELF2) You will see some changes to the eligibility checkers in wizard from Monday next week regarding what was previously known as ‘Disadvantaged 2 Year Old Funding’. In line with the changes from central Government, this funding will now be
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Please see attached Spring Term Newsletter.
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Dear All I’m delighted to let you know we are offering two webinar dates for parents, carers and family members who are supporting children through exams this year. Please find more details below and do please share with families in your networks. How you can support your child to manage exam stressJoin
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‘’ Working with CoachBright to deliver the Peer to Peer Coaching programme has been a fantastic experience for the students at Duke’s. Our Year 10 coaches built genuinely positive relationships with the Year 7 pupils, many of whom had previously struggled to engage in maths. That sense of trust and
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Newcastle Research School have an exciting free webinar on Wednesday 25th March, 4-4.45pm. We have Lindsey Fagan (Great North Maths Hub lead) joining us to discuss how we can refine the approach to problem solving in Maths (primary and secondary). There will also be time for you to ask any
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Please see attached letter for more information. Please note the date for feedback completion is now 31 March 2026.
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Young Enterprise are offering 2 schools across Northumberland and Tyne & Wear fully funded places on the programme below. The project will span 3 academic years, starting this year. Below is a breakdown of what the project includes; To find out more about the day programmes click here. To find out more
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Ringway Primary School is part of the DfE School Rebuild Programme (SRP) and because of this, there are kitchen items available for redistribution to Northumberland Schools. Please see attached for more information.
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EYFS Conference 2026: Wired to Learn Discover the neuroscience behind early childhood at the 2026 EYFS Conference: Wired to Learn, a specialised professional development event for Early Career Teachers, new EYFS leads, and practitioners. Hosted by the Three Rivers Professional Development Institute and Cheviot Learning Trust, this conference explores how developmental cognitive neuroscience can enable
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The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) came into force on 24th February 2025, introducing a major overhaul of public procurement procedures for Contracting Authorities, including Local Authority Maintained Schools. This is a reminder of the requirements now in place: The Act introduced increased transparency requirements, simplified procedures, and strategic procurement
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