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Cognus Education Safeguarding Team Support and Raise Awareness During Child Exploitation Week

The Education Safeguarding Team were part of a multi-agency working group tasked with developing a programme of events for young people, families, and professionals, to promote Child Exploitation Awareness Week (17th-21st March 2025). We are taught about exploitation and the risks in school, but I think events like this help, and it gets people talking. […]

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Paving the Way Easter Workshop

The Paving the Way team welcomed 16 families, and 20+ children to our Easter workshop which focused on understanding emotions. The children had fun creating many arts and crafts that supported their emotional awareness and regulation.  Each child took a bag full of goodies home to enjoy and be proud of. We were lucky to […]

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Cognus Education Safeguarding Team Gathering Feedback from  Stakeholders to Inform Planning for the Year Ahead.

In January 2025, the Education Safeguarding Team sent out their annual survey for 2024-2025 to schools and partners.  Gathering feedback is such an important process and helps to inform their Service Development Plan for 2025-2026. To date, they have received 69 responses from schools, with 100% being very satisfied/satisfied. To date, they have received 24 […]

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Empowering Parents and Thriving Together

The Therapies Team are thrilled to share the success of two recent parent and carer training sessions on sensory and emotional regulation. Over both training sessions we have had a grand total of 65 parents attend from our primary school cohort, including a whopping 40 attendees for the most recent session in December. These trainings […]

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A Sweet Deal – Working at Cognus Therapies

 (Reading Careers Fair Dec 2024) In December 2024, two of our dedicated Speech and Language Therapists (SaLT), Fran Yelf and Grace Flowers, attended the Reading University Careers Fair to provide first-hand advice to guide and inspire the next generation of Speech and Language Therapists. Armed with industry insights (and a box of Quality Street!), they […]

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Another successful Mini Warrior Group

The Paving the Way Team have completed another very successful Mini Warrior and Warrior group. The children have enjoyed understanding their emotions, learning about, friendship, anxiety, and self-esteem.   It has been wonderful seeing them enjoy the games, crafts and designing their own t-shirts. My child has spoken about managing her emotions and used techniques […]

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Empowering Parents and Thriving Together

The Therapies Team are thrilled to share the success of two recent parent and carer training sessions on sensory and emotional regulation. Over both training sessions we have had a grand total of 65 parents attend from our primary school cohort, including a whopping 40 attendees for the most recent session in December. These trainings […]

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Cognus Therapies run interactive stall at Preparation for Adulthood (PfA) event for the third year running

Thursday 7th November 2024 saw London Borough of Sutton (LBS) host another highly successful Preparation for Adulthood (PfA) event for children and young people aged 14+ in the local area. Over 300 young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) visited the event which took place at the new site at Westcroft Leisure Centre […]

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Cognus Education Safeguarding Team start the New Year with a round of Safeguarding Reviews in our Sutton Schools

In January 2025, the Education Safeguarding Team conducted Safeguarding Reviews in two of our Primary Schools, St. Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School and St. Dunstan’s Cheam Church of England Primary School. As we all know safeguarding does not stand still.  It is so useful to go through our safeguarding practices and processes and to get external […]

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Attendance Matters

The Traveller Education Service works closely with schools, families and the Attendance Service to promote the importance of good attendance. One particular family that we have worked continuously with to encourage good attendance and engagement with school has made a massive improvement. The Year 3 pupil’s attendance so far this academic year is over 90% […]

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