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Jun 12, 2024 · England’s largest social work charity Frontline, has announced that its flagship training programme will be renamed from June 2024 onwards. Beginning in June, the name of the programme will change from the Frontline programme to Approach Social Work. This will also be paired with a visual identity update that sees the course take on new branding.
- National Standards
- Accountability to ‘Ensure Expectations Met’
- EHCPs to Go Digital – But trialled First
- Inclusion Plans In, But No Council Admission Powers
- Mandatory Mediation to Be Scoped Out First
- New NPQ For Sencos Gets Green Light
- New Special Schools – But Long Process
- National Send Tariffs to Come Alongside Standards
- AP Funding Will Also Be Reviewed
- Inclusion Dashboard Demo Next Month
Ministers had proposed legislating for new national SEND standards. But these standards are now going to be piloted through the change programme first, before legislation is decided on. So from spring, parents and “frontline professionals” will be among those ministers talk to on how the standards could look. By the end of this year, government wil...
Ministers will also look at designing accountability mechanisms “to ensure the government expectations are met, including considering the role of Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission”. The standards could set out how schools must adapt physical and sensory environments to enable pupils with SEND to learn alongside peers, as well as the council’s ...
DfE is going ahead with plans to create a standardised EHCP template, but guidance won’t be in place from 2025. It will “consider the case for mandating its use through legislation”, but will “encourage” councils to adopt the template. On plans for a digital EHCP, this yearDfE will work with councils, suppliers and families to test how “digital sol...
Government is going ahead with “local inclusion plans” (LIPs), created by local SEND and AP partnerships. Non-statutory guidance will be published this autumnon expectations for the partnerships, alongside a “self-assessment tool”. In 2024, the change programme’s regional taskforce teams will target support to areas most in need. The DfE’s regions ...
Ministers had controversially proposed to make mediation between councils and families during the EHCP process mandatory. Currently thousands of appeals go to the first-tier tribunal withsome parents waiting up to a year for help, as Schools Weekrevealed. The move will be tested through the change programme to ensure there are no “unintended conseq...
Ministers will go ahead with plans to introduce a new leadership level SENCo National Professional Qualification. Further timings on procuring NPQ providers will be released “in due course”. This year,the DfE will also “explore opportunities” to build teacher expertise through a review of the initial teacher training core content framework and earl...
Thirty-three free schools have been promised in 30 councils, mainly those with large high needs deficits. New AP schools applications are currently being assessed and announced in autumn. But as a Schools Week investigation found, it can take years for these schools to open. In September, one of 37 schools had opened in a permanent home two years a...
The SEND review also proposed a national system of funding bands and tariffs for pupils with special needs to ensure more “consistent” funding. This will go ahead, with bandings clustering “specific types of education provision” and tariffs setting the rules and prices that commissioners use to pay providers. No specific dates for implementation we...
The green paper proposed a new funding approach in alternative provision. Local partnerships would identify the budget needed to implement their plans over a minimum period of three years. Government said it will go ahead with the new funding approach “aligned to their focus on preventative work with, and reintegration of pupils into, mainstream sc...
The SEND review pledged new “inclusion dashboards” for 0 to 25 provision to offer a “timely, transparent picture” of how the system is performing at local and national level for “strengthened accountability and transparency to parents”. A prototype will be tested from this April “with a view to making a fully public version available in autumn 2023...
Jun 9, 2021 · Figures are not available as yet for the 2021 Frontline cohort, who start the programme next month. Of the 2020 cohort, 22.7% were from a black Asian or ethnic minority group. This is a similar proportion for children’s social workers employed by local authorities or children’s trusts, though below the latest figures for university postgraduate or undergraduate social work courses (36%).
Jan 8, 2019 · Education Secretary Damian Hinds has today (8 January) announced plans to fund 900 places on the Frontline children’s social work training programme up to 2021. The social work charity, which ...
Jul 1, 2021 · Mary Jackson – Frontline chief executive and panel chair . Kasey Thompson – Frontline programme participant, Croydon. Petros Careswell – Frontline fellow and social work team manager, South Gloucestershire . Mayank Joshi – Head of family safeguarding, Hertfordshire . Andy Elvin – TACT chief executive and Frontline trustee
Mar 2, 2023 · a new leadership level Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator National Professional Qualification (SENCo NPQ) will be created, ensuring teachers have the training they need to provide the right ...
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Jan 25, 2023 · 25 Jan 2023, 13:38. Frontline is a graduate programme based around social work. Find out about its aims and recruitment process, check out the financial support available and get tips on your application from Frontline's CEO and recruitment director. Frontline’s graduate programme is focused on child protection social work.
