Professionals

Attendance Support around Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) and Mental Health

EBSA is a term used to describe children and young people who have difficulties in attending school due to emotional factors. Whilst using the term EBSA can help us and others to know that the absence involves emotional factors, it is essential that further work is undertaken with the pupil and their family to understand […]

Attendance Support for Professionals

How we work with you We work in close partnership with our colleagues in Early Help, social care and the Virtual School in order to provide a holistic approach to improving issues and challenges with school attendance using a multi-agency approach. All Sutton Schools have an allocated officer within the Cognus Attendance Support Team, who […]

Free Autism Advice Sessions for Professionals 02/11/2023

Themes: Education for all (Inclusion), Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)Audience: Professionals

Would you like to talk about your young person and get some ideas or strategies? If we have availability, you will be allocated a 30 minute video call between these times

Thu 2 November, 2023, 9:30am - Mon 20 November, 2023, 12:00pm

Book a 30 minute 1:1 session via Microsoft Teams

Social Worker Training

Sutton Virtual School are pleased to launch our CPD programme for 2023-24 with the golden thread theme of ‘Change Makers’. Please see the Social Worker CPD Programme for the individual training session dates, designed to provide ongoing support to SW’s. The programme outline on the flyer contains links to sign up to the virtual Teams […]

Welcome Information – Assisted Travel

Meeting our service The Assisted Travel team is a statutory service. We ensure young people can travel to school or college. We ensure they are not prevented from travelling by circumstance, disability or need. We ensure that children can arrive at school ready to learn. The Assisted Travel team receive an applications for transport. We […]

Sutton’s Vision and SEND Charter

We are collectively ambitious for our children and young people. Together we want to provide them with the best chances to achieve their best outcomes in life, whatever their starting point, and to prepare them effectively for adulthood. Our SEND Charter The Sutton Charter provides a framework for shared values and attitudes across the local […]

Dispute Resolution

Mediation, Dispute Resolution and Tribunals This page has information on the options for families if they disagree with a decision. 1. Who can support me if I need help with a disagreement? SIASS is free for parents, carers and young people, and can offer help and advice on options available. Organisation – Sutton Information, Advice […]

Annual Reviews – the basics

What is an Annual Review meeting – and is it always ‘annual’? An Annual Review meeting is where the school/setting, professionals, parents and a young person review the needs, outcomes and the provision (the support) in the young person’s Education Health and Care (EHC) Plan. The review meeting is to see if any changes are […]

EHC Needs Assessment Process

What is an Education, Health and Care Plan? Most children and young people with SEND will be supported within their mainstream early year setting, school or college through the Graduated Response and Quality First Teaching, with targeted and personalised support. All schools have “notional funding” to allow them to do this. The Local Authority has provided additional […]

What is Special Educational Needs (SEND) Support?

1. What is SEND support? Sometimes, your child or young person will need more help to learn – this is often called a ‘special educational need’. When this is the case, their education setting must provide suitable support to help them make more progress. Special educational needs support is to help children and young people […]