{"id":72142,"date":"2025-10-24T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=72142"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:07:56","slug":"virtual-school-action-plan-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/child-family-support\/young-people\/support-for-care-experienced-young-people\/education-of-children-in-care\/virtual-school-action-plan-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual School action plan 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Virtual School vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A forward thinking, relational approach integrating care, education and health for our Devon children, as part of Inclusion and Learning and Children&#8217;s Social Care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Virtual School broader strategic commitments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Championing educational equity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raising aspirations and outcomes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prioritise the<strong> voice<\/strong> and<strong> lived experience<\/strong> of the child<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Respond to contextual and emerging risks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Professional development and capacity building<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promote safe and supportive learning environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Strengthening multi-agency collaboration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relational approach &#8211; prioritising wellbeing and belonging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Embed a culture of vigilance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data-drive decision making<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accountability, governance and continuous improvement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Priorities for CWSW<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Raising the priority<\/strong> &#8211; every child should attend and thrive in school every day. Improve education presence and engagement, improve our EET data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure <strong>every child in care has opportunities to achieve<\/strong> and aspire to reflect our high aspirations for our children, in line, or better that national CiC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Improve outcome data at end of each key stage<\/strong>: EYFS, Phonics, KS2, KS4, KS5.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ensure we hear our children in their PEPs<\/strong>. Improve quality and effectiveness of PEPs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure <strong>children feel safer in school, and feel they &#8216;belong&#8217;<\/strong> to their learning community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Place based approach &#8211; three localities and one out of county locality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Service delivery &#8211; a graduated response<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Universal<\/strong> &#8211; schools will provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/ordinarily-available-inclusive-provision\/\">Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Targeted<\/strong> &#8211; reasonable adjustments, timetable changes, relational support plan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Specialist<\/strong> &#8211; exceptional circumstances, breakdown situation in education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Finance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Termly allocation of Pupil Premium Plus Grant and Personal Education Allowance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time bound interim support funding for interim education.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disrupted education support fund.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ways of working (Four Cornerstones)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/working-together\/devon-local-area-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-send-strategy-2024-to-2027\/the-four-cornerstones\/#welcome\">Welcome and Care<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/working-together\/devon-local-area-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-send-strategy-2024-to-2027\/the-four-cornerstones\/#value\">Value and Include<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/working-together\/devon-local-area-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-send-strategy-2024-to-2027\/the-four-cornerstones\/#communicate\">Communicate<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/working-together\/devon-local-area-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-send-strategy-2024-to-2027\/the-four-cornerstones\/#partnership\">Work in Partnership<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a onclick=\"dataLayer.push({&amp;apos;buttonEvent&amp;apos;: &amp;apos;Information page&amp;apos;});\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/EXQGVRA0wvJNpVcUn8GsEOkBQCIq25RazAFdm6wBS9Wr6A?e=5nzdaH\" rel=\"noopener\">Download a PDF copy of the 2025-26 action plan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":68822,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-72142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 21:03:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72145,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72142\/revisions\/72145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}