Social Inclusion

When a pupil has been identified as requiring specific intervention from external agencies, an EHAT should be considered before applying for this support

Good quality advice and information booklets are available from Social Inclusion for schools, parents, carers, and other agencies on lunchtime, fixed term and permanent exclusions and pupils at risk of exclusion / disengagement.

Managed Moves are a process that enables a pupil who needs a change to make a voluntary move to another school / academy, with the pastoral and educational support he or she needs.

Managed Moves can also be for short term intervention placements in Student Support Centres and New Heights School. These placements provide targeted support to enable pupils to return to their home school with strategies and support to help them do so successfully.

Social Inclusion works with all schools and academies via the Fair Access Panel in a citywide protocol to make educational provision for ‘hard to place’ children in a fair and equitable manner. There is a Secondary Panel that meets weekly and a Primary Panel that meets every two weeks to review cases.

It is the roll of the Inclusion Development Workers to develop efficient and effective city wide support to schools, young people, and families where behaviour is impacting on school placement and attainment.

For further information or enquiry please contact the Social inclusion Manager Carol Sarath on  07864691581 / 07921942693

The Support Centre Service provides temporary places for children having a difficult time in school and behaving in an unacceptable way. We offer support for children, their families and school by helping with practical help and ideas to help to change their behaviour.

The duration of a place in a Support Centre is expected to be between 6 to 12 weeks. Your son/daughter will remain the responsibility of their mainstream school and we work together to ensure that we are doing our best to support your child’s needs.

Our service is based in seven Centres located at Primary and Secondary schools across Liverpool. Centres are staffed by one teacher and two learning support assistants in a range of child friendly accommodation.

Children are referred by their school for a place in the Support Centre Service, preferably as part of a support package offered with the Early Help Assessment Tool. Schools can make a referral at any point in the school year and your child will be offered a place when a suitable one becomes available.

While your child is at a Support Centre we will ensure that they learn the basic skills in Mathematics and English appropriate for their age. The timetable will cover their statutory entitlement of age appropriate hours of education per week. Break and lunch times are spent in the Centres with the possibility for the group to join the host school if there is an opportunity to do an activity. Staff are always mindful of the safety of the group and other children in the school.

Parents/ carers are contacted regularly to inform them of progress and methods of support. The centre teacher works alongside other agencies to offer other types of support that we feel may help. We remain in regular contact with your child’s school and attendance information is sent to them ever week. A report is written about your child’s time in the Support Centre and is given to their school at the end of the placement.

At the start of a placement a review meeting is scheduled for week 4 when a decision is made by the child, their parents/ carers, school and the centre teacher about re-integration back into their school. This can be a phased integration and is monitored and supported to ensure the best opportunity for your child to succeed.

Please see the attached document on the right of the page for a list of Support Centres

For further information or enquiry please contact the Support Centre Manager Gill Smith or Social Inclusion Operations Team on 07864691581 / 07921942693

Sometimes pupils, for a variety of reasons, behave in ways which disrupt, offend or cause distress to others, both pupils and staff.  As a last resort, Head Teachers may use exclusion from school as a means to try to resolve the difficulties which may have arisen.

You will be contacted by the Social Inclusion Team to discuss your legal rights and your child’s education. For the first five days of the exclusion the school will set work for your child. From the sixth day of the exclusion onwards the Local Authority will provide full-time education.

The Headteacher can permanently exclude for a serious breach of school discipline when it is not intended that the pupil should return to the same school. Permanent exclusion can be for a number of incidents or for a one-off incident.

Whilst your child is excluded from school, they must NOT enter the school premises unless requested to do so by the school or if your child is reinstated by the School Governors Committee.

A place at the Primary (Key Stage 2)/Secondary Key (Stage 3 and 4) Education Centre for a period of assessment.
Alternative Education Provision (Key Stage 4 Pupils only)
An alternative school as an ‘Allocated Place’

This service offers support to pregnant school girls and school aged mothers to continue their education for a set period of time before and after birth if they are unable to attend school. A teacher is available to teach in the home 9 weeks prior to the expected date of delivery through to 9 weeks after the birth. Teaching sessions are between 10am and 12pm and 1pm and 3pm. Two sessions a week will be provided depending on timetable availability. The SAPES teacher will focus on core subjects, i.e. English, Maths and Science in the first instance.

Further contact will be made with the family when the pregnant schoolgirl can no longer attend school for medical reasons. For the majority of young women this will coincide with week 31 of pregnancy.

A home visit will be arranged- Mrs J Walsh will meet the young woman and her family. The parent/guardian will be asked to sign the appropriate documentation. Teaching times are confirmed. There is also the opportunity to find out more about the young woman and discuss any anxieties she may have.
Contact with the home school- Mrs J Walsh will contact/meet with home school to request work, resources, academic attainment, etc.
Teaching commences.
Reintegration- at the post-birth review, a reintegration programme is put in place with the home school, SAPES and any other agencies involved with the young woman and baby. Once a successful reintegration has taken place the young woman is discharged from SAPES.

Referrals are made to SAPES through the Social Inclusion Operations Team. 0151 233 5991

For additional information visit our Alternative Provision Team information page