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- Devon's sufficiency strategy for children in care and care leavers 2024 to 2029
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Documents
- 0 – 25 SEND Team Workforce Strategy Action Plan
- Appendices
- Championing Children: Guidance for Foster Parents, Carers and Social Workers
- Changes to how school appeals are held due to COVID-19
- Children and young people are fulfilling their potential and achieving their goals by accessing local inclusive further education, work and training opportunities
- Children and young people are fulfilling their potential and achieving their goals by being prepared for adulthood early
- Children and young people are fulfilling their potential and achieving their goals through local inclusive education opportunities
- Children and Young People are fully engaged in their education and local community
- Children's Social Care - Recruitment and Retention Strategy 2021-2022
- Corporate Parenting Strategy 2024-27
- Devon Phase Associations Terms of Reference
- Devon Virtual School Policy for Pupil Premium Plus
- Devon Virtual School structure chart
- Direct payments guidance
- Early access to services means children and young people are thriving and resilient
- Early Years Complex Needs Summer Activities 2021
- ePEP online - guidance notes
- Flexi-schooling policy
- HAF programme feedback
- HAF providers – Easter 2023
- HAF providers – summer 2023
- Handbook for managing unauthorised encampments
- High Needs Funding Group: Notes of meeting on 4 March 2024
- Holiday Activities and Food programme – terms and conditions of grant
- In-year school admissions guide 2023/24
- Inclusion protocol for care-experienced young people
- Joint SEND Commissioning Plan 2021-2024: Introduction
- Personal education budgets guidance
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting 6 January 2023
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting 8 March 2023
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 10 January 2025
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 11 November 2024
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 12 January 2024
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 5 June 2024
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 6 March 2024
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 6 November 2023
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 7 June 2023
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 8 July 2024
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on 9 September 2024
- Schools Finance Group: Notes of meeting on Wednesday 13 September 2023
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of meeting 14 May 2024
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of meeting 7 March 2023
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of meeting on 23 May 2023
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of meeting on 24 September 2024
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of meeting on 3 December 2024
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of meeting on 5 December 2023
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of meeting on 5 December 2023
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of meeting on Tuesday 26 September 2023
- Schools Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group: Notes of on 5 March 2024
- SEND Improvement Board minutes - 14 September 2023
- SEND Improvement Board minutes - 19 July 2023
- SEND Improvement Board minutes - 21 June 2023
- SEND Improvement Board minutes - 24 May 2023
- SEND Improvement Board minutes - 26 April 2023
- SEND Improvement Partnership Board - 0-25 Team Recruitment and Retention update
- SEND Improvement Partnership Board - minutes 22 February 2023
- SEND Improvement Partnership Board - minutes 25 January 2023
- SEND Improvement Partnership Board - minutes 29 March 2023
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 11 January 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 11 July 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 13 June 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 14 December 2023
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 14 March 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 15 November 2023
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 16 May 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 17 April 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 17 October 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 19 December 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 19 September 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 21 November 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 27 February 2025
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 27 March 2025
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 30 January 2025
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board minutes - 8 February 2024
- SEND Strategic Partnership Board Terms of Reference
- Support and guidance for children and young people
- Support and guidance for designated teachers, governors and other school staff
- Support and guidance for parents, carers and guardians
- The High Needs Funding Group Terms of Reference
- The School Finance Group (SFG) Terms of Reference
- The step by step guide to normal round admissions in September 2025
- Virtual School Annual Report
- Virtual School Team prospectus
- Youth voice action tracker