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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Early Years Leaders Briefings Autumn Term Please find information attached. Early Years Service Level Agreement (SLA) portal is now open for PVI settings and childminders. Our SLA includes a cycle of support visits across the year. A specialist locality team will be assigned to […]
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The DfE provide ad hoc updates via email to schools and settings. The latest was published today (4 September). The content is available here.
Dear Colleagues, 🍂Welcome to Autumn Term!🍂 Updates from the Team Headcount AUT 2024-25 For those of you who submit via School 360, the AUT 2024-25 headcount form is now available. As usual, the form is not pre-populate as it is the start of the Academic Year. We advise that you
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The DfE guidance “working together to improve school attendance” became statutory on 19th August 2024. This replaces all previous guidance and provides information about interventions available to address pupils’ poor attendance, pupil registers and attendance codes. The Department has published a very slightly updated version of the above guidance. There are no policy changes in the document,
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The latest version of Keeping Children Safe in Education has now been published. You can download it here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education–2 The content is almost as expected from the ‘for information’ version, published in May 2024. There are two changes areas to note: – Safer Recruitment for individuals who have lived or worked
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With the start of the new academic year 2024/25, we would like to take this opportunity to let colleagues, parents/carers, children & young people know about the Northumberland Growing Healthy 0-19 Service. Please find attached information about our offer for all families in Northumberland. If you have any questions, please
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Young people’s creative learning charity Mortal Fools are offering Northern schools’ FREE access to their award-winning Mental Health Education through storytelling intervention; MELVA. Express your interest in a free MELVA licence TODAY via: https://melva.org.uk/eoi/ Mortal Fools have funding from the North East Combined Authority in place to cover the cost of
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Please find details of our training courses below. Please also see the attached document 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 think would be interested
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The Blue Light Card now welcomes teachers to its list of eligible services. The card costs £4.99 for two years – by joining you can save money on a wide range of goods and services both online and in-store. For full details and FAQs click here.
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team SEND Local Offer new website is LIVE Please share the link to the new website with parents and carers of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Click here to take a look at the new website and to find out more.
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“The Will Guys offer a fresh way of delivering Wills to customers; without all the fuss and cliches associated with ‘old school’ Will Writers (so we’ve heard). With over 30 years combined experience in the financial and legal sector we really know what we’re talking about and always strive to
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Dear Colleagues As the academic year draws to a close, I am sorry to have to begin this letter with some sad news. Over the last few years, with school and university budgets becoming ever tighter, subscriptions to the EPRS have declined. The University’s School of Education has made the
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We’re really excited to share with you Northumberland’s new local offer website for parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). The SEND local offer provides a wide range of information about all the support and facilities which families can expect to find
As part of the Department for Education’s sustainability and climate change strategy, all education settings are expected to have a climate action plan and a sustainability lead climate action plan and a sustainability lead in place by the end of 2025. During the new academic year, a number of organisations will be working
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Are you registered for Tax-Free Childcare? For more information including how to register, click here! Northumberland Family Hubs Newsletter: Click here to access this month’s Family Hub Newsletter Workforce survey Rise have re-launched our Early Years Workforce Survey for people working in the Early Years
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My name is Fiona Wardlaw and I am one of the Family Support workers for ESCAPE. We work with families and friends who are affected by someone else’s drug and alcohol use. We have been running for 30 years along side NCC,NHS and NRP. ESCAPE has been given funding to
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To help you make the most of your Education Policy and Research Servicesubscription here are last month’s highlights, our subscribers’ topthree most popular downloads from June’s summaries. 1) EPRS 23/24 91: The state of education: what awaits the nextgovernment? (Institute for Fiscal Studies) This report from the Institute for Fiscal
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision We are delighted to launch the Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision document which will support you in ensuring best practice around inclusion within your setting. You can find a link to the document by clicking here. Briefing sessions are being held
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team New entitlement for 9 months+ This week please focus on asking parents of under 2’s to apply via childcare choices for their free 15 hours and bring you their codes for September starts, you need them validated via the working families checker in Wizard
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Dear Colleagues I am pleased to bring you the June summaries – a wide range of themes which will, I hope offer something of interest to you all. As we draw ever closer to the election, my list this month begins with a report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies
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All schools in Northumberland are in a pre-paid area for emotional health resources hub: https://inourplace.co.uk/northumberland/ Here you will find; This means parents can access a range of online support to better understand children’s emotional health, brain development and wellbeing. For more comms material and information you can contact vicki.collins@northumberland.gov.uk
Please see attached school term dates September 2025 – August 2026.
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Applying for free 15 hours for under ‘s Please remind parents they can now apply via HMRC for places from September 2024! Also don’t forget to collect in their codes and validate via Wizard. Updates from Partners Recruitment Incentive Pilot Look out for a
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Dear partner, Last year, we allocated the Eat, Sleep, Play Learn fund to support our children and young people, which was part of the council’s response to cost-of-living pressures. The fund was very well received across the County and received over 500 applications for support. We have now refreshed the fund to ensure it is
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To help you make the most of your Education Policy and Research Servicesubscription here are last month’s highlights, our subscribers’ topthree most popular downloads from March’s summaries. 1) EPRS 23/24 81: National Behaviour Survey: Findings from AcademicYear 22-23 (Department for Education) This report from the Department for Education draws on
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Funding for NPQs is changing from September 2024. Previously NPQs were free, however funding will only be availbale to certain schools from September. Full details are available here.
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Northumberland Portage Service is delivering a National Portage Association Workshop at Blyth West Family Hub on 10th and 11th October 2024. The workshop is suitable for all Early Years Practitioners. The Course aims to develop: Central to the course are the ‘Portage Principles’ and the ‘Three Circle Model of Portage’. These are
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team 2nd Headcount SUM 2023-24 If you require a 2nd headcount form for disadvantaged funded 2 year olds who have; started accessing funding with you, or have increased their hours since full headcount, please email sophie.downing@northumberland.gov.uk by Wednesday 19th June 2024 Early Years Qualification Forum
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Dear Colleagues, Updates from the Team Key Dates Autumn 2024-25 Please find the key dates for Autumn term attached. Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision Come and find out more about the Early Years Ordinarily Available Provision document being launched this term to support all early settings in Northumberland in ensuring
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This week we are supporting the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) with Child Safety Week. This year’s theme is Safety. Sorted! It’s all about sharing simple, practical tips to keep children safe. CAPT have put together a parent’s pack covering the most common causes of accidents and how to
