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Children's services have a key role in ensuring high levels of participation in education for all children and young people who live in their authority, or live elsewhere but attend school in their area. This involves providing effective support and challenge to schools to improve inclusion and the quality of teaching and learning.
Introduction to 'Improving attendance and reducing persistent absence' manual. Links to 'Every Child Matters' and further manual pages: Overview; Review of school attendance policy; Review of attendance practice; Identifying how data can most effectively be used to inform actions; Providing whole staff training; Ensuring that schools fulfil minimum requirements to improve attendance by reducing persistent absence; Resources and acknowledgements.
The P scales are designed to provide a common basis for measuring the progress of pupils for whom the early levels of the National Curriculum are not appropriate.
Exploring the effective use of data to support the evaluation of progress for pupils identified as having special educational needs, learning difficulties and disabilities (SEN/LDD).
Continuing professional development (CPD) materials designed to support school improvement and help settings and staff implement the DCSF focus on raising the attainment of Black African and Black Caribbean children. The three Units provide background information about the attainment gap in languages, and offer a series of activities, points for reflection and discussion, and suggestions for further reading. Ref: 00058-2008 Publication date: August 2008
Providing opportunities to reflect, resolve and practise solutions to issues facing gifted and talented (G&T) pupils and to develop action plans for various situations.
A user guide to support Local authority quality standards (LAQS) for Gifted and Talented education: the standards (00787-2009DWO-EN-01) which was developed with LAs trialling the LAQS.
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