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A friendly, informal group who meet to chat and support each other.

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Freely available resources on supporting children and young people through the holidays. Scroll down to the winter resources section.

Information courtesy of Beacon House Therapeutic Services & Trauma Team | 2024 | www.beaconhouse.org.uk

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Beacon House is passionate about developing freely available resources so that knowledge about the repair of trauma and adversity is in the hands of those who need it. Please feel free to use our resources in your home or work setting.
All we ask is that you credit our team for the information and design using this credit: Image or information courtesy of Beacon House Therapeutic Services & Trauma Team | 2022 | www.beaconhouse.org.uk
As a specialist trauma service, our resources are written using a 'trauma lens' and offer information, ideas and strategies from this perspective. We know that there are other perspectives and overlapping experiences, meaning that 'one size doesn't fit all'. We are working to be as inclusive as possible and alongside this acknowledge that not everything we produce will be relevant for everyone.

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Beacon House is passionate about developing freely available resources so that knowledge about the repair of trauma and adversity is in the hands of those who need it. Please feel free to use our resources in your home or work setting.

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We offer bespoke training on request for Previously-Looked-After and Kinship. Please get in touch with thevirtualschool@nottinghamcity.gov.uk to book.

If you are a Designated teacher, our previously-looked-after/kinship education officer attends and supports at our DT Network meetings. There will be regular updates and training during these sessions.

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Christmas hints and tips from Adoption East Midlands Co-production groups

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Christmas hints and tips from Adoption East Midlands Co-production groups

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Christmas your way - Adoption East Midlands

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Adoption East Midlands training and support for schools Autumn 2025

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Adoption East Midlands training and support for schools Autumn 2025

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Virtual Support Offer - For Schools 2025

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Adoption East Midlands training and support for parents Autumn 2025

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Adoption East Midlands training and support for parents Autumn 2025

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Virtual Support Offer - For Parents AU25

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Sensory Processing and Attachment support

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Sensory Processing and Attachment support

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Support for people working with children. Developed for primary and secondary schools.

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Sensory Processing & Trauma and Attachment Training - Poster & Links

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Lesson Plans and Assemblies by Coram BAFF

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Lesson Plans and Assemblies by Coram BAFF

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Free Kinship awareness plans for Primary schools. Easily adapted for secondary.

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The Kinship Care Resources are free to schools and were co-produced between Coram Life Education, Coram BAAF and the Kinship Care Alliance, to introduce the subject of Kinship care.

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A signposting guide to childcare options, events and support over the school holidays.

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There are lots of unusual terms and phrases used to talk about children in care and previously-looked-after. Here is a quick crib sheet to help understand some of the most common.

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Adfam School Guide to supporting children affected by parental substance use.

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Adfam School Guide to supporting children affected by parental substance use.

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The Adfam produced guide gives schools key advice and questions to check how they might respond to a child with parental substance misuse, including if the child is being cared for by another relative or family friend.

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The Families Information Service supports with information around childcare settings, Funding for under 5s, Early Years Hubs and groups, holiday clubs and activities.

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Signposting on Further Education for Guardians

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Signposting on Further Education for Guardians

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Signposting to support services and options on further education.

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Choosing GCSEs signposting for Guardians

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Choosing GCSEs signposting for Guardians

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Useful signposting to support guardians and young people in choosing their GCSEs.

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Adfam: Support and training about the impact of family substance addiction on children.

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Adfam: Support and training about the impact of family substance addiction on children.

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Adfam is a charity in England for children and adults affected by someone else’s drinking, drug use or gambling

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Drug & alcohol use can threaten and ultimately destroy family relationships and wellbeing. We empower family members and carers, support frontline workers and influence decision-makers to stop this happening. Adfam has recently launched its new Adfam@Home self-funded support service.

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General support for Early years settings

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General support for Early years settings

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Support, training and free resources to raise the educational achievement of children in the early years.

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The Department for Education ( DfE) offers a range of online and in-person school support and professional development for improving teaching and leadership of reception.

Whole school support

Nuffield Early Learning Intervention

The Nuffield Early Learning Intervention (NELI) programme targets reception-aged children who need extra support with their speech and language development. Children who take part in the NELI programme make on average 4 months of additional progress in oral language skills. This increases to 7 months for children on free school meals. The DfE-funded NELI programme is available to all state-funded schools with a reception class.

English Hubs

English Hubs offer a range of support to local schools, academies and free schools to improve the teaching of phonics, early language and reading for pleasure in reception and year 1. Offers include:

Early years stronger practice hubs

Early years stronger practice hubs provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years settings. Many hubs have expanded this offer to include reception networks, with some offering funded places on professional development programmes for teachers.

Oak National Academy

Oak National Academy is a free online classroom and resource hub that provides teachers with free lessons and resources for pupils aged 4 to 16, from reception to year 11.

Partnerships for inclusion of neurodiversity in schools

The Partnerships for inclusion of neurodiversity in schools (PINS) programme is a national programme that brings specialist health and education professionals and expert parent carers into mainstream primary schools to:

support schools to identify and better meet the needs of neurodivergent children

provide early interventions at whole school level

upskill school staff and support the strengthening of partnerships between schools and parent carers

Individual staff training

Early years child development training

The Early years child development training is free online training aimed at building and strengthening the knowledge and understanding of early years educators in the key areas of child development.

The training offers practical advice for supporting children in early years settings and reception classes to thrive. The course has 8 modules, each taking about 2 hours to complete.

National professional qualification in early years leadership

The National professional qualification (NPQ) in early years leadership supports participants to develop expertise in:

leading high-quality early years education and care

effective staff and organisational management

Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Maths Early Years Programme

The Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Maths Early Years Programme is a fully-funded programme designed to improve the subject knowledge and pedagogical knowledge for all practitioners teaching and supporting the learning of early maths.

Mastering Number Programme

The Mastering Number Programme is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme and aims to secure firm foundations in the development of good number sense for all children from reception through to year 1 and year 2.

Maths Champions programme

The Maths Champions programme is a fully-funded online resource for educators who wish to increase their knowledge of and confidence in supporting children's early mathematical development.

Research by the Education Endowment Fund has shown that children who attend a setting that implements the programme make up to 3 months' additional progress in their maths and language.

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The Department for Education ( DfE) offers a range of online and in-person school support and professional development for improving teaching and leadership of reception. The Nuffield Early Learning Intervention (NELI) programme targets reception-aged children who need extra support with their speech and language development.

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Support for choosing a secondary school place.

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Adoption East Midlands: Residential planning tool

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Adoption East Midlands: Residential planning tool

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Adoption East Midlands, residential planning tool.

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AEM School Residential Planning Tool FINAL 2025

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KS4 Personal Education Plan (PEP) Template

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KS4 Personal Education Plan (PEP) Template

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A downloadable PEP form for KS4. Training video above.

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Early Years Personal Education Plan (PEP) Template

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Early Years Personal Education Plan (PEP) Template

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A downloadable PEP plan for EYFS. To be used as shown above in the short training video on this padlet.

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Training on a range of topics for adults working with children who are previously-looked-after. Estimated time 2 hours.

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software - Canva

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School toolkits for supporting children when a parent/carer is in prison. 

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School toolkits for supporting children when a parent/carer is in prison. 

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A series of new toolkits (2024) developed to guide schools supporting children when their parent is in prison.

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Pact supports prisoners, people with convictions, and their families across England and Wales.

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A short assembly about Kinship. To raise awareness of Kinship.

With thanks to Kinship.org for their permission to use videos.

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Check out this Presentation designed by BSD.

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A schools guide to supporting a child with traumatic bereavement. Produced by the UK trauma council and shared on its website free to access.

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An introduction to support and guidance for schools with children who are in the Kinship care of an older sibling.

Created with support from the Family Rights Group research 2017: Sibling Carers - Family Rights Group

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With thanks to NCC LGBTQ+ network for their support in producing this document.

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Recommended by Adoption East Midlands, New Family Social support LGBTQ+ people and families exploring adoption. They have free resources linked to latest research and testimonials.

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Adoption and fostering change lives – both for the children and young people involved and the adoptive parents and foster carers. That’s why the transformation features heavily in this year’s LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week campaign. With podcasts and videos released throughout the week there’s plenty of material for you to devour, all featuring real-life stories from LGBTQ+ people in the UK.

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Support for people who are mixed race, or are in mixed race families

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Support for people who are mixed race, or are in mixed race families

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Recommended by Adoption East Midlands, People in Harmony offer resources and support for mixed race adopters, children and adults. They also conduct research into how education can be improved for mixed race children and young people.

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People in Harmony (PIH) is a membership organisation for mixed race people, families and couples. We have been providing information and support for over 45 years to members, researchers, statutory bodies and the general public. One of our aims is to influence and improve ways in which public services such as education, health, social care, and criminal justice are delivered to them through discussion and debate, research, campaign and the arts.

Educate

We provide information to educate anyone interested in Mixed Race Matters, Identity, History and Progression

Celebrate

We celebrate Mixed Race artistic talent, knowledge, innovation, achievement and the rich diversity of all their experience

Stimulate

We aim to use education & celebration to stimulate action, engagement and new links with Mixed Race communities

Support

We support continuation of mixed race research to identify and evidence any specific needs in relation to mixed race

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People in Harmony - Making Mixed Race Matter

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People in Harmony (PIH) is a membership organisation for mixed race people, families and couples. We have been providing information and support for over 45 years to members, researchers, statutory bodies and the general public.

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Adoption East Midlands: children and residential visits in school

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Adoption East Midlands: children and residential visits in school

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A new peer reflection on how schools can best support children on school residentials.

with helpful summaries and the voice of the children.

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Adoption East Midlands: preparing for school residentials

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Adoption East Midlands: preparing for school residentials

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A guide on preparing children and adults for school residentials and the unique considerations for children who are previously-looked after or in Kinship.

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A comprehensive handbook of the research and methods in supporting children. Including links to further resources.

Shared free to access on PAC-UK

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A helpful guide for school staff on meeting the needs of adopted and permanently placed children.

Link shared to the document freely available on PAC UK website

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Some links for Mental Health support in Nottingham City including support groups.

URGENT HELP: If you are injured or have taken an overdose, Call 999 or go to A&E immediately.

If you are having a mental health crisis, phone 0808 196 3779 to speak to a mental health professional 24/7. (NottAlone)

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In Production: Staff/Team meeting resource bank. 

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In Production: Staff/Team meeting resource bank. 

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A bank of short videos, games and information sheets to raise awareness of trauma, attachment and how to support children to regulate their behaviours and improve their wellbeing.

Regular training on trauma informed practices and strategies to support them have a strong link to staff self-efficacy and wellbeing and children's outcomes.

Developed in collaboration with Nottingham City Council Behaviour Support Team.

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A simple guide to what research says about the most effective homework and how to ensure you have begun to consider the needs of previously-looked-after children and those in Kinship.

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Why Staff Wellbeing Matters to children Previously-Looked-After 

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Why Staff Wellbeing Matters to children Previously-Looked-After 

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A summary of research into teacher burnout and its effects on children who have experienced trauma. With some research based considerations to improve wellbeing for staff and schools.

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Introductory Guide to transitions for settings

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Introductory Guide to transitions for settings

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A simple introduction to emotional and physical transitions. A starting point: further resources available e.g. Transition Toolkit from VS.

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A short overview of transfers and some considerations. Designed to be a way into thinking about transfers for PLA children.

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Supporting a child previously in care transferring to your setting

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A general signposting guide developed with K. Butler R2i.

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Guide to choosing a school for Guardians

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Guide to choosing a school for Guardians

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A simple guide with questions to ask and things to look out for to work out if the school is right for your child. With thanks to Adoption UK for their resources made freely available on the website.

Admissions

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Video 3 Training Mini Series: Kinship. Supporting education in school.

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Video 3 Training Mini Series: Kinship. Supporting education in school.

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A short video giving the research and examples of supporting children in school including:

The role of the Designated Teacher

SEND

Trauma and Attachment overview

Personal Education Plans

Resources and Finance

Contact thevirtualschool@nottinghamcity.gov.uk to access this resource

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A short video about the virtual school's role for children in Kinship families.

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Video 2 Training Series: Kinship education at home

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Video 2 Training Series: Kinship education at home

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A short video giving the research and simple examples of how to promote education at home. Contact thevirtualschool@nottinghamcity.gov.uk to access this resource

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AEM is the regional adoption agency. They offer educational support as well as taking referrals for 1:1 support for children and their families.

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Support for our adopters | Adoption East Midlands

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Hetty's charity runs Kinship support groups and workshops in Nottinghamshire. Nottingham City Kinship families are welcome to attend these and join the Hetty's Kinship WhatsApp.

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Hetty’s provide a specialist kinship care worker, support package.

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Link for the Kinship Nottingham City Support Group

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This group is led by the local authority and is open to special guardians (post order) in Nottingham.

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A short video about the importance of attendance and who can support.

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Attendance why it matters support strategies who can help in Nottingham City (1)

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Video 1 Training Mini Series: What is Kinship?

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Video 1 Training Mini Series: What is Kinship?

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A short and simple introduction to Kinship and its different forms.

Raise your awareness of the different types of Kinship to enable you to identify, understand and support a child in Kinship care.

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KS2 Personal Education Plan (PEP) Template

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KS2 Personal Education Plan (PEP) Template

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A downloadable PEP plan for KS2. To be used as shown in the short training video above.

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Short training video about the PLA Personal Education Plan

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Short training video about the PLA Personal Education Plan

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What it is, what it looks like and how to use it well.

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Example letter for parents/guardians to tell school about PLA status.

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Example letter for parents/guardians to tell school about PLA status.

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A simple letter template for guardians and parents to use to inform an educational setting of their child's PLA status.

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Exemplar Letter for carers to tell school about PLAC 

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Information for Parents/Guardians about Pupil Premium Plus

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Information for Parents/Guardians about Pupil Premium Plus

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An information leaflet about Pupil Premium Plus

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Intro to the Virtual School for people supporting children previously-looked-after

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Intro to the Virtual School for people supporting children previously-looked-after

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A short video about the virtual school's role for previously looked after children.

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All About the VS for Guardians of children PLA

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All About the VS for Guardians of children PLA

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An introductory flyer for Previously Looked After Guardians/Parents

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An introductory flyer for Kinship Carers

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Considerations for EY settings on making your setting accessible and inclusive for children previously looked after.

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A guide on choosing and preparing for a setting and how to help them make it somewhere your child thrives.