Professionals

Parents – Home educating a child with SEND support needs

Parents have the right to choose to educate their child at home when their child has SEND support needs. Most needs can be well managed at home by parents, by providing a flexible learning environment and adapting lessons to meet their child’s needs. It is recognised that parents can use different approaches to delivering education […]

DfE – Free school transport explained

On Friday 3rd November, the Department for Education published a blog post on free school travel, aimed at parents: Free school transport explained: From who’s eligible to how it works – The Education Hub (blog.gov.uk). It aims to support parents’ understanding of the eligibility criteria and to answer some commonly occurring questions.

Penalty Notices

To make sure all requests are appropriate please see our Penalty Notice Code of Conduct (October 2023) Please read all sections fully before entering/uploading details. Thank you for submitting your request, the Attendance Support Team will be in touch shortly to confirm receipt.

ePEP

We are pleased to announce that the updates to the Sutton Virtual School PEP document are now live. We have designed the new PEP with input from designated teachers, social workers, foster carers, young people and our CLA nurse team. Please ensure you familiarise yourself with the updates and watch the training video which takes […]

National Advocacy Helpline – new contact details from 1st October 2023

Since 2015, the Department for Education has commissioned a national advocacy helpline to support the rights of children to be heard. Since 2017, this helpline has been delivered through Coram Voice’s ‘Always Heard’ service. We are writing to inform you that from 1st October, the national advocacy helpline service will be provided by the National […]

Request Forms

Please click on the links below to download the forms. If you have any questions about completing the forms, please email ep.service@cognus.org.uk Educational Psychology Brochure 2023-2024 Order Form School request for Educational Psychology involvement 2023-2024 Young persons consent form (16 – 25)

Pre-Level 1 British Sign Language (BSL)

Do you want to communicate with Deaf people? Thinking about learning BSL but unsure? Then come along to our Pre-Level 1 Course to see if it is right for you! When: 9th January 2024 – 6th February 2024 How long: 5 weeks Time: Tuesday Evenings, 6.00pm – 8.00pm Where: Cognus Limited, First Floor, Cantium House, […]

Attendance Graduated Response

Sutton’s Attendance Graduated Response provides a multi-agency framework, that supports working together to encourage school attendance and tackle the barriers to attendance that may arise for a child or young person. The Attendance Graduated Response aims are: • To support our work together to create positive change that enables children and young people to attend […]

Useful resources and information

Absence and attendance codes It is important that registers are coded correctly for all attendances and absences. Please click here for information about the codes from the DfE guidance Working together to improve school attendance (publishing.service.gov.uk) Graduated Response Sutton’s Attendance Graduated Response provides a multi-agency framework, that supports working together to encourage school attendance and […]

Smart Targets

Every PEP must contain three SMART targets that are reviewed at the next PEP. There should always be a SMART target for English / literacy, maths and then another area eg attendance, homework, another subject. Where a child is in KS1 or KS2 there must be a writing SMART target as we know that statistically […]