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With one voice!
NAHHT are
currently in discussion and liaison with the National
Association for Hospital School Leaders and National PRUs organisation
about how we can present a united front to support the needs of
children and young people in alternative provisions at this time of
change.
It's Conference time again!
It's time to book your place at the NAHHT
conference.
Please go to our Conference Page
for all the details and application forms.
National Survey of Medical Provision
We are trying to collect some credible national data to demonstrate to
the Ministers and Department of Education the nature and complexity of
the work that we do everyday in our provisions for children and young
people with medical and mental health needs.
We
have consulted with colleagues from the Department of Education to
ensure that the data we are capturing is information that they are
seeking: they have been very encouraging of us to do this survey in
order to get a national picture of the nature and diversity of the work
that goes on.
We make no apologies that the form is long and extremely comprehensive.
There has never been such a large data collection from medical
educational provisions ever attempted before.
We appreciate
that the last thing you want to do at the moment is complete a huge
onerous form, but we implore you to take the time to complete it. The
publication of the results and the opportunity to celebrate what we do
will be of benefit to us and the children and young people with whom we
work.
Please could we ask you to return your completed survey to ckitchen@northamptonshire.gov.uk
by 17th December
2011? If you have any
problems or would like some support to completed it, please do not
hesitate to contact me and I will more than happy to support you.
Our plan is to analyse the results over the holiday break so that we
have a report with recommendations to present to the ministers by the
middle of January 2012. We are in discussion with the National
foundation for Educational Research to get our findings quality assured
and published.
Many thanks in anticipation for your co-operation,
Cath Kitchen
On behalf of the National Association of
Hospital and Home Teaching.
Just click on the links below to open the documents.
Please remember to save the completed form on your PC and send it to:
ckitchen@northamptonshire.gov.uk
Survey Notes for completion.doc
SURVEY OF EDUCATIONAL PROVISION FOR CHILDREN final oct
2011.doc
Contact with the Department for Education
Following our letter to Michael Gove about our concerns about pupils
with medical needs in the White Paper, we did receive a reply from his
department who offered to meet with us.
Despite many e mails, no-one then got in contact.
However, we have met with Francis Loughran who has been commissioned by
the minister Sarah Teather (SEN review) to conduct a survey about the
quality of provision for pupils with medical needs. Francis has little
previous experience in this area, but listened with interest and has
started to try and visit a variety of settings to get a ‘feel’ for the
work that we do. He wants to do a survey to investigate further and we
have offered to support him in that.
Look out for the survey on this site once it is published.
Chris Seymour from our committee is going to speak to another
representative about funding for medical provisions, including hospital
schools, if they were to become free schools or academies.
New document for self evaluation
Check
out the documents page for a paper from CfBT. They have done an
international literature review to find what makes an effective
alternative provision. They have produced an evaluation grid which we
may find useful when we no longer have to complete the self evaluation
form on the Ofsted site.
Research
Documents click here
Changes to National
Healthy Schools
The NHSS now longer exists, but there is a new
template and tool kit in place for self assessment on the DfE website.
Check out the new resources in the Healthy
Schools section.
National
Children's Bureau audit results &
NfER report on the role of the primary mental health
worker in education
The National Children's Bureau commissioned an audit of 268 young
people in 6 pupil referral units across the country. Although there was
only a small number of medical needs pupils included, the conclusions
are the same and it is good to see our voices backed by research
findings.
There is a good qualitative audit form at the back of the paper which I
have adapted (see word document) and am going to trial to see if it is
a more robust way of collecting the invaluable qualitative information.
I am hoping to do a thematic analysis - anyone else interested in
trialling it and want to compare results?
Please let me know!
NfER have published a report on the role of the primary mental health
worker in education which also makes interesting reading. We are
bidding for some money to have our own primary mental health worker and
found this useful - watch this space!!
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You can find the National Childrens's Bureau audit results and the NfER
report in the new Research
section of our Policies page.
Managing the 25 hour provision
How are people managing with this?
Are all your pupils able
to access 25 hours?
What creative ways are you using to increase the number of
hours without the cost being too prohibitive?
In our new e-Learning Section is a spreadsheet of some
of the providers we have found. My thanks to Lynn Lucchese for doing
the major
part of this and collaborating so effectively. We are not endorsing any
of the
products and are interested in anyone’s feedback as to who they have
used and
how good they were.
We are hoping that a number of them will be at our
conference in March to be able to talk to you in more depth.
Please e mail your comments ( ckitchen@northamptonshire.gov.uk)
so we can share
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