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Success Stories

Welcome to Sutton Virtual School’s Success Stories! We understand that for some of our young people, identifying a career to progress towards can be difficult – especially as there are so many choices! We will regularly update this page, with a range of resources to support you in your decisions, including aspirational careers videos and […]

Sutton Education Wellbeing Service

Mental Health Support Team: The Domestic Abuse (DA) Team Our team provides early intervention mental health support within the school setting to 12 Sutton schools who are part of the DA cluster. The team is a part of the wider Education Wellbeing Service. Comprised of a multidisciplinary team, Sutton DA MHST brings together expertise from […]

Blue Light Card – discounts for Foster Carers

Join foster parents and carers from across the country who’ve signed up to Blue Light Card. Follow these simple steps: . Click register . Select Social Care . Select Foster Carers . Enter Foster Carer/Parent in the job title . Fill out your details . Upload a picture of your ID card or pay slip* […]

Meet the team

Cognus Autism Support is made up of two part-time Advisory Teachers for Autism (Alex Silk and Rebecca Duffus), and one part-time Autism Specialist (Asma Jacobs). The extensive support we provide is further enhanced by the Cognus Autism Champions.

Autism Advice Session for Sutton Families – 09/02/2024, 1.00pm-4.00pm

Themes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe, Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)Audience: Families

Would you like to talk about your young person and get some new ideas or strategies? Pending availability, you will be allocated a 30 minutes slot on Microsoft Teams between the session times below. Please book by emailing theautismservice@cognus.org.uk

Fri 9 February, 2024, 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Sessions will be booked in 30 minute slots, and held via Microsoft Teams

Parent Workshop on Puberty 31/01/2024

Themes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe, Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)Audience: Families

Join us for an online Parent Workshop on Puberty on Wed Jan 31, 2024, at 4pm. This workshop, delivered by the Autism Service and Clinical Psychology Service is designed to help parents navigate the challenges and changes that come with their child’s puberty journey. During this interactive session, we will discuss various topics related to […]

Wed 31 January, 2024, 4:00pm - 5:30pm

VIRTUAL, VIA ZOOM

Help at Hand service by The Children’s Commissioner

Help at Hand is the Children’s Commissioner’s advice and assistance service for children in care, children who have a social worker or are working with social services, children living away from home and care leavers. Children, young people, or their advocates can get in touch with Help at Hand for free by phone, website or email.

Accountability

Our objectives and delivery plan are overseen by the Strategic Attendance Group (SASG) who will meet every three months. We report to both the Local Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (LSCP) for assurance, and the Education Leadership Group (ELG) for accountability and strategic decision making. Feeding into the SASG will be a number of networks that bring […]

Our progress so far

Since the release of the Working together to improve school attendance guidance, May 2022, we have been working hard to bring about positive change and improvements to attendance. So far we have: What is working well Attendance is recognised as high strategic priority within Sutton with a Strategic Attendance Steering Group and a strategy and […]

The Priorities

Whilst it is clear that we need to improve rates of attendance for all children, particularly those who are persistently or severely absent, there are some cohorts whose experiences and circumstances may require an additional focus and include; The overarching priority is to improve school attendance for all pupils. To achieve these the following five […]