Tag: looked after children
Building positive relationships
Elizabeth Shields explains why a focus on individual trauma can assist teachers in supporting looked-after children with SEMH needs
Changing the narrative on care
Jennifer Nock provides positive ideas to help schools and local authorities support looked-after children
Is Pupil Premium Plus working?
Julie Johnson assesses the impact of schools’ spending on looked-after children
Fostering positivity
David Eggboro talks to a mother who feels her family has been enriched by fostering a child with SEN
Making children’s homes outstanding
What does best practice look like for children’s homes supporting those with complex needs? Eleanor Schooling explains Ofsted’s view
Family ties
Chris Burton talks to an adoptive father about the rewards and challenges of adopting siblings with SEN
SEN and specific circumstances
Specialist SEN solicitor Douglas Silas explains the legal requirements for looked-after children and young people and those in alternative provision
What’s it like to be adopted?
Chris Burton talks to a group of young people working to promote greater understanding of the needs of adopted children in school
In a class of their own
Jennifer Nock describes how one school put its resolve to provide effective, lasting support to pupils with attachment issues into practice
Skilling them softly
Schools need to help looked-after children develop social interaction skills if they are to prepare them for learning, writes Jennifer Nock
