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Training for New Designated Teachers Feb 2019

By the end of this workshop you will have an improved understanding of:

• Hertfordshire’s Outcome Bees
• What is the Virtual School?
• The statutory role and responsibility of the Designated

Teacher for children looked after and post looked after

• How to create and implement effective Personal

Education Plans

• The Pupil Premium Plus process
• The CLA SEF

Ofsted /HMI Regional Priority

The key priority this year for Ofsted in the Eastern Region is improving educational outcomes for Children Looked After. The Regional Director for Ofsted, Paul Brooker is clear that the gap between all children and children looked after is too

• wide. Hertfordshire has the widest gap of all. There will be a

strong focus in all Ofsted school inspections on the progress and

• utcomes for CLA. Inspectors may use an additional evidence form

regarding CLA during the inspection.

be happy: to help learners know themselves and celebrate success. be independent: helping learners to gain the skills and knowledge needed for future employment. be ambitious: enabling learners to make good progress in their work and personal development and to enjoy their education. be resilient: ensuring that learners understand their rights and responsibilities, are listened to, and participate in the life of the community. be safe: keeping learners safe from bullying, harassment and other dangers. be healthy: helping learners to adopt healthy lifestyles, build their self-esteem, eat and drink well and lead active lives.

Hertfordshire County Council’s Outcome Bees

Virtual School Priorities

• To offer support to all Early Years providers for CLA and advice and

guidance for previously CLA

• Improve outcomes in the combined measure for Reading, Writing and

Mathematics (RWM)

• Develop language capability to support reading and writing in EYFS, Key

Stage 1 and 2

• Reduce incidents of Fixed Term exclusions
• Develop effective transition strategies
• Improve tracking of progress and attainment
• Further strengthen SEND partnership for improved outcomes

Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential (Dec 2017)

• Development gap – On average, 40% of the overall gap between

disadvantaged 16-year-olds and their peers have already emerged by the age of five. There is significant variation across the country: while 71% of disadvantaged five-year-olds in Lewisham achieve a good level of development, in York it is only 46%.

• ‘Word gap’ – These gaps are particularly pronounced in early

language and literacy. By the age of three, more disadvantaged children are on average already almost a full year and a half behind their more affluent peers in their early language development. Around two fifths of disadvantaged five-year-olds are not meeting the expected literacy standard for their age.

Big asks…

What do vulnerable young minds have to manage throughout the school day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3xoZXSW5yc *SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING*

Exposure to multiple risk factors (pre and post-natal) that can impact on development

• FASD
• Lack of Maslow’s hierarchy of need
• Disruption to living environment
• Mental wellbeing of parent
• Bereavement
• Parental substance misuse

Stress

Stress bucket

Normal nurturing environment and care giving Deprived of a nurturing environment

Brain scan of the temporal lobes in a 2 year old

Inactive areas show up as black, whilst red and green show high activity levels. Bruce Perry (1997)

Disturbed Attachment cycle

Baby has a need Baby cries Needs not consistently met by caregiver Trust does not develop. Rage develops instead

Attachment in school

A child needs to make a secure attachment with

the main significant adult or adults in its life from a very early stage, and then have consistent and warm relationships, from there onwards throughout childhood for emotional and psychological good health. Bath Spa University 2017

http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/education/research/attachment-aware-schools/

Attachment Toolkit

• This is a detailed, comprehensive training found on the

Virtual School website to give all staff in your school an

• verview of what attachment needs your children could

have and how you can best support them.

• It does not make you an expert but does give you an

introduction to the silent needs that we sometimes don’t recognise…

Examples of types of behaviour possibly evident in children with attachment difficulties:

• Seem to ‘tune out’ of what is going on – dissociation,
• Poor attention and listening skills,
• Difficulties progressing in their learning,
• Have fine and gross motor skill difficulties,
• Inconsistent responses to the use of rewards and sanctions in class,
• Difficulty in accepting praise,
• Jumpy and on edge – hypervigilant,
• Become over-excited very easily,
• Under/Over-react to difficulties or conflicts,
• Memory, processing & organisational difficulties,
• Display inappropriate behaviours,
• Excessive control issues.

Whole school approach

• Building a culture of emotional literacy
• Flexible application of behaviour policy
• Nurture principles embedded throughout school life
• All staff being attachment aware
• Support for staff

Intervention for the children

• Key adult
• Nurture groups/Access to nurture provision
• STEPs- roots and fruits/anxiety mapping
• Teaching children about their brains
• Whole body interventions- daily mile, peer

massage, Mindfulness

• Boxall Profile/SDQs- measures for wellbeing
• Safe Space - Play therapy, Arts based

interventions

New Guidance issued

Revised Statutory Guidance- February 2018

• Sections 1 to 7 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 made

changes to the legislative framework for CLA and previously-looked after children, and care leavers.

• Sections 4 to 7 expand the role of VSHs and designated teachers to

include certain previously looked-after children (those who left care through adoption, special guardianship or child arrangement orders or were adopted from state care outside England and Wales).

• Revised guidance reflects VSH and designated teachers new role and

developments in policy, research and practice for these young people.

• The new duties for VSH and designated teachers come in to force from

September 2018. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for- looked-after-children https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/promoting-the-education-of- looked-after-children

The Role of The Governors

The Governors must:

• Appoint a designated Governor who should attend the

appropriate training,

• Ensure that the Designated Teacher is a member of the

Senior Leadership Team (SLT),

• Challenge the SLT to monitor and address any

underperformance in progress of and outcomes for CLA, and post-CLA

• Ensure that the Designated Teacher has the opportunity to

acquire and keep up to date the relevant skills required,

• Receive and analyse the Report to Governors.

The role of the Designated Teacher for CLA

• Ensure school staff understand the achievement and

learning needs of CLA and post-CLA in their school,

• Promote a culture of high expectations of CLA and post-

CLA,

• Ensure that CLA and post-CLA are prioritised in school for

any appropriate interventions and opportunities,

• Advise staff about appropriate teaching strategies,
• Ensure that the young person has a voice in setting learning

targets,

• Is the advocate for the young person and key point of

contact for outside agencies (inc. social worker)

DT Key accountabilities

• Monitor, track and promote the attainment of CLA and

post-CLA on roll in the school,

• Develop and implement the young person’s electronic

Personal Education Plan (ePEP) for CLA,

• Complete the CLASEF,
• Give a statutory report to Governors (minimum is

annual) on progress and attendance and pupil premium spend for CLA (para 2.10 guidance),

• Ensure that data is made available to the Virtual School
• n a termly basis (reported on the ePEP),
• Planning, implementing and measuring the impact of

PP+ spend

• EYFS PEP

The Role of the Virtual School (VS)

• Champion the learning needs of CLA whether they are

educated in Hertfordshire or at a distance,

• Challenge and support schools to ensure that CLA have

the best possible education and every chance to realise their potential,

• Offer targeted interventions to raise attainment and

aspirations of CLA groups (Aim Higher),

• Track progress and target resources to promote

achievement,

• Provide advice and guidance for post-CLA
• Provide training to social workers, schools and carers.

The Pupil Premium Plus (PP+) Process

• Early Years Pupil Premium is set at £300 per year, paid termly,
• £2300 per CLA from April 2018 onwards (Years R-11),
• Paid to schools from the first day of the young person’s care episode,
• Pupil Premium Plus will also be paid to children reported by the school on the

school’s January census who has: – left care under a Residence order, – left care under a Special Guardianship Order (under the Children Act 1989), – been adopted from care in England or Wales,

• Hertfordshire Virtual School pays £600 per term to the school, with £500 per

CLA retained in a central pot

• Schools can bid into central pot for additional funding to address specific need

(additional PP+ form)

What is an ePEP?

• A legal requirement for all school age CLA, and good

practice for all in Early Years and post 16 settings.

• A plan written by the school in partnership with the social

worker and carer to ensure that the CLA makes good progress,

• This plan will be drawn up in the PEP meeting in which the

progress of the CLA will be discussed with the Designated Teacher, Social Worker, Carer, and the Young Person,

• A record of how additional funding is used by the school to

improve outcomes for the CLA.

Section 44 p15, Statutory guidance on the duty on local authorities to promote the educational achievement of looked after children under section 52 of the Children Act 2004

The ePEP

• Secure web based system,
• Two-step verification,
• Available on the website ‘Welfare Call Extranet’,
• Available from any computer with internet access,
• Available 24/7,
• A live working document,
• A secure library for sharing educational documents,
• A live link to the Welfare call attendance register,
• The finalisation buttons must be clicked by the

Designated Teacher, Social Worker and the Education Adviser.

Designated Teacher’s Role in the PEP

Before the PEP:

• Contact the SW to arrange the date of the PEP
• Gather a ‘Round Robin’ from everyone who teaches or

supports the pupil (academic focus not just behaviour),

• Collect the up to date attainment data and Pupil View,
• Look at the data and consider which areas need to be

targeted,

• Discuss with relevant staff to identify appropriate targets

to secure best outcomes for the CLA,

• Formulate strategies and interventions that could be

implemented for discussion in the meeting.

The ePEP timescale

• ‘The ePEP must be reviewed each term to ensure that

the story of a child’s educational progress is current and continues to meet the child’s educational needs. It is also to ensure that information from the PEP is available to feed into the next statutory review of the wider care plan’. “Promoting the education of looked after children” July 2914 DfE Guidance

• PEP meetings to be held termly
• Next review/meeting date must be agreed at the end of

the PEP

Designated Teacher’s Role in the PEP

 The DT is to lead the meeting  Section 1 to be completed by the social worker  Sections 2 to 8 to be completed by the DT  Section 9 is the joint responsibility of social worker and DT After the meeting:

• Record details in each section of the ePEP record on

Welfare Call,

• Press PEP ‘complete and finished’,
• To support the Young Person, share the targets and

actions with school staff.

Changes this academic year to the data that is uploaded to Welfare Call Any year group

Current Attainment

Emerging Expected Exceeding

Current Attainment - detail

Expected

• Expecte

d Expected +

Any year group- 9 pots, the full picture

Attitude to learning question

Key to Attitude to Learning:

• 4 – Consistently engaged and well-motivated
• 3 – Engaged and motivated at most times
• 2 – Engaged and motivated some of the time
• 1 – Lacks engagement and self-motivation

Termly targets

• SMART
• Specific
• Measurable
• Aspirational
• Realistic
• Timely
• What is the next area of

learning for the young person?

• How will Pupil Premium

be used to support the target?

• If required, who will do

the tuition and when?

PEP target setting

Which of the following do you think are effective educational targets? a) To be able to double numbers up to 20. b) To improve their reading. c) To use a capital letter and full stop in every sentence. d) To focus for 15 minutes independently during every lesson. d) To learn all of the times tables up to 12. e) To improve their learning behaviour.

Resources to support the PEP action plan

• School’s own resources and interventions: mentoring,

counselling, TA support, expert teacher to provide tuition

• Access to external agencies e.g. Educational

Psychologist, Education Support Centre

• Virtual School resources

Requests for Information

How do you know that a request for sensitive information is genuine? How can you send sensitive information securely? Do you know how to password protect a document? How do you store your sensitive information?

Need support?

Contact:

• Welfare Call - 01226 716333
• Lesley Harnden (Support Officer) - 01442 453039

Staff Name contact Working Days Areas Marianne Gentilli 0144245387 9 Weds, Thurs Three Rivers, Hertsmere. Jan Hegerty 01442 453320 Full Time (Term time only) Dacorum, St. Albans. OOC = North & West, London, Kent, South East. Deborah Laurie 53058 Full Time ARC & CLA in Residential provision. Also manages 2xESW (1FT post) for CLA in HCC homes. Andrew Martin 53964 Full Time Lead Adviser

• Broxbourne. OOC = Peterborough, Cambridgeshire,

Suffolk and Norfolk John Pope 07812 324287 Variety of days as arranged. Working between Post 16 and Secondary team with new into care, year 11. Donna Witter 26146 / 01992 556146 Full Time Watford, Welwyn & Hatfield, East Herts. OOC = Bedfordshire & Luton, Essex, Thurrock & Southend. Hannah Wright 53338 Full Time Stevenage, North Herts. OOC = London, Kent, South East.

Website https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/microsites/virtual-school