Education for all (Inclusion)

Autism Acceptance Week events for 2024

A celebration of Autism Acceptance Events 2024 Artistic and Autistic Exhibition Please click on each of the images below to view the events for each week. Please follow the link to make bookings for sessions via Eventbrite Parents and Professionals Young People and Families More events and activities confirmed! Creativity Exhibition – Artistic and Autistic […]

Assisted Travel Forms

Please download these forms if required Travel Assistance Application form (online form) Epilepsy Care Plan Epi-Pen Care Plan

Traveller Education Service

Cognus’ Traveller Education Service works with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children, young people and families in both Sutton and Merton to promote and support improved access to education. We use a multi-agency approach to make sure education settings support those with Traveller ethnicity to access and fully engage with services available to them. We also aim to raise awareness […]

School Inclusion

Cognus’ School Inclusion service provides information, advice, and guidance to schools to support inclusive practice and the prevention of exclusion. A Range of support can be offered that may include: To speak to a member of the inclusion team, or for more information, please contact Cognus’ Inclusion Coordinators on:

School Improvement

Cognus’ School Improvement service supports schools to bring about continuous and sustained improvement in teaching and learning. Our aim is to ensure that all the maintained primary schools in Sutton have access to the right expertise to support learning and governance. We do this by: For more information, contact Jane Morgan, School Improvement Advisor, at jane.morgan@cognus.org.uk

School Exclusion

Cognus’ School Exclusion service provides information, advice and guidance on the prevention of exclusion to schools. The team is responsible for recording and reporting statutory exclusion data on behalf of the London Borough of Sutton. Additionally, the team will make the necessary arrangements, in partnership with the Limes College in Sutton, to offer pupils suitable […]

Sutton IASS (SIASS)

SIASS offer free, impartial, confidential support for 0-25 year olds with SEND in Sutton. To visit our dedicated website, please click on the link SIASS (external website) To contact us: Our service operates year-round (including school holidays), Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Email Sutton@SIASS.co.uk Or call us at 0208 323 0462 (please note, during busy periods it may take up […]

Hearing and Vision Education Service (HaVES)

Hearing and Vision Education Service (HaVES) is an education service focused on supporting pupils with deafness, vision impairment (VI), or multi-sensory impairment (MSI) to access education successfully. We work with families, early years settings, primary and secondary schools, and Post-16 providers. The support we provide can include:

SACRE Support

Cognus is commissioned by the London Borough of Sutton to maintain a Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) on their behalf. Sutton’s SACRE provides advice to local authority school’s (not including Voluntary Aided or Voluntary Controlled Schools) on all aspects of its provision for Religious Education (RE), including: For SACRE’s annual reports and meeting […]

Elective Home Education

Elective Home Education (EHE) is a term used to describe a choice by parents to provide education for their children at home – or at home and in some other way that they choose, rather than sending them to school. Parents have a responsibility to make sure that their child is educated. Most children attend […]