Complementary education
The Complementary Education
Service works in partnership with schools and other agencies in
raising the achievement, and to support the continuing education of
Vulnerable Children.
We aim to:
- Provide advice and guidance to schools to ensure they meet the
needs of and fulfil their statutory obligations towards vulnerable
pupils.
- Support schools in ensuring that they are meeting their
responsibilities to provide a minimum statutory entitlement for
pupils who cannot attend due to illness or during a maternity
leave.
- Enhance the learning opportunities and achievement of pupils by
the creative use of ICT and Distance Learning strategies.
- Liaise with outside agencies, schools and families to develop
strategies to raise levels of achievement for vulnerable groups, in
order to enable them to access education and achieve their
full potential.
- Support attendance, integration or re-integration of vulnerable
children into school, further education, work or
training.
- Follow the guidelines set out in the Digits Pathway
to support vulnerable pupils. Further information on this
process is available on the Digits Pathway section of the website.
- Provide support and advice to schools in raising the
achievement of Minority Ethnic, Traveller, Asylum Seeker
and EAL (English as an Alternative Language) pupils.
- Provide an Authority-wide advice service and INSET for schools
in areas such as Traveller support, Distance
Learning and EAL
provision.
Complementary Education Service wins award
In partnership with Sefton Equalities Partnership, the
Complementary Education Service won an award for their work with
Travellers. Visit our Traveller
Information page for further details.
Service offers EAL training
Due to the overwhelming response for the last training
session the Complementary Education is offering another
training day for the new online Rosetta Stone software.
Please visit our EAL section for further details of the
course.
Young Carers
We offer support to Young Carers in Sefton to help them maintain
their education around their caring duties. We can offer
software, information and advice to help Young Carers achieve
educationally. We also work with Active
Sefton to link services available to young people within
Sefton.
For educational support visit our learning area ezone.
Further information:
The Complementary Education Service is lead by Service Manager
Steve Jones.
You can contact the Complementary Education Service for further help
and guidance.
Last Updated on 4/23/2009