Virtual School vision
A forward thinking, relational approach integrating care, education and health for our Devon children, as part of Inclusion and Learning and Children’s Social Care.
Virtual School broader strategic commitments
- Championing educational equity
- Raising aspirations and outcomes
- Prioritise the voice and lived experience of the child
- Respond to contextual and emerging risks
- Professional development and capacity building
- Promote safe and supportive learning environment
- Strengthening multi-agency collaboration
- Relational approach – prioritising wellbeing and belonging
- Embed a culture of vigilance
- Data-drive decision making
- Accountability, governance and continuous improvement
Priorities for CWSW
- Raising the priority – every child should attend and thrive in school every day. Improve education presence and engagement, improve our EET data.
- Ensure every child in care has opportunities to achieve and aspire to reflect our high aspirations for our children, in line, or better that national CiC.
- Improve outcome data at end of each key stage: EYFS, Phonics, KS2, KS4, KS5.
- Ensure we hear our children in their PEPs. Improve quality and effectiveness of PEPs.
- Ensure children feel safer in school, and feel they ‘belong’ to their learning community.
- Place based approach – three localities and one out of county locality.
Service delivery – a graduated response
- Universal – schools will provide Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision.
- Targeted – reasonable adjustments, timetable changes, relational support plan.
- Specialist – exceptional circumstances, breakdown situation in education.
Finance
- Termly allocation of Pupil Premium Plus Grant and Personal Education Allowance.
- Time bound interim support funding for interim education.
- Disrupted education support fund.