The proposed North Midlands Regional Adoption & Permanency Partnership is backed by the Department for Education and involves working with Shropshire Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Telford and Wrekin Council.
Children from Staffordshire will remain the responsibility of the county council, but the joint project will provide a wider range of prospective adopters and carers to find the right home.
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Shropshire Council has agreed to increase its provision of residential accommodation for children in its care, by investing in the purchase, adaptation and fit-out of up to three new properties in the county.
The proposal was approved by councillors at a meeting of full Council yesterday, 28 February 2019.
A new App giving foster carers in Staffordshire more say and the chance to monitor and update children’s school records is set to have a positive impact on their schooling.
Many local authorities already use the online electronic ePEP system which is used to monitor and review children’s performances at school. However, Staffordshire County Council are the first authority to allow foster carers to both view and edit records themselves which is giving them a greater say in decisions around their young person’s education.
Staffordshire County Council will bring partners and families together to improve services for children with special needs following a review.
A joint report by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission into the delivery of Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) in the county that is commissioned and delivered by the county council and schools with support of the Staffordshire NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), identified a number of areas to be improved.
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As part of its Christmas campaign to highlight the urgent need for foster families, Staffordshire County Council’s fostering service has set out to bust some of the commonly held myths putting people off.
Titled ‘The 12 Myths of Fostering’, and building on the success of a previous campaign, a series of 12 short cartoons will air online in the run up to Christmas.
Staffordshire parents are claiming millions of hours of funded childcare for their three and four-year-olds.
Latest figures show more than 7.7 million hours a year of pre-school care are being claimed by nearly 6,800 children.
Plans to educate more special needs pupils closer to home are at the heart of a new plan under consultation.
Parents, carers and schools are taking part in a countywide consultation over the future of Staffordshire’s special educational needs and disability (SEND) strategy for children and young people aged 25 and under
Plans to deliver children’s centre services from seven new family hub bases across Shropshire were agreed by Shropshire Council’s Cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday 26 September 2018.
The decision means that services will be delivered from seven key buildings instead of the existing 26 buildings, namely:
The Centre – Oswestry
Sunflower House – Shrewsbury
Crowmoor Centre – Shrewsbury
Rockspring Centre – Ludlow
the Youth Centre – Bridgnorth
Raven House – Market Drayton
Plans to deliver children’s centres services from seven proposed new family hub bases across Shropshire will be considered by Shropshire Council’s Cabinet next week (26 September 2018). To see the report and appendices, click here.
Under the proposals, services will be delivered from seven key buildings instead of the existing 26 buildings, namely: The Centre – Oswestry; Sunflower House– Shrewsbury; Crowmoor Centre – Shrewsbury; Rockspring Centre – Ludlow; the Youth Centre in Bridgnorth; and a hub base in the Whitchurch area yet to be determined.
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The call out from Shropshire’s 0-25 SEND Board, which includes representatives from education, health and social care and voluntary organisations, is for local children and young people aged 0-25 with SEND, and their families, to complete the online survey
A reorganisation of Staffordshire’s children centres has delivered on its key promise of helping more vulnerable families.
New figures show the percentage of vulnerable children aged 0-to-five being helped in the county has increased over three years from 48 per cent to 76 per cent.
Plans to deliver children’s centres services from six new family hubs across Shropshire will go out to public consultation from 29 May to 12 July 2018, and people are being urged to have their say
Shropshire schools can now to sign up to a new initiative which aims to help schoolchildren and staff get fitter and healthier through the introduction of ‘daily miles’ or walking clubs.
Launched today (Thursday 1 February 2018) the Healthy Outdoors for Schools programme is provided by Shropshire Council’s outdoor partnerships service, which leads on rights of way, countryside parks and sites, and Walking for Health.