Latest information
For all support and guidance on COVID-19, see below and click on title to expand.
Advice for parents
- NHS Chat Health text messaging service
- NHS Information Leaflet for Parents
- Contact details for Parentline
- Contact details for health visiting and school nursing services: Bedfordshire 0-19
- Help and Support for parents experiencing Child to Parent abuse
- Checklist for managing daily routine to help parents and children manage their routines (EEF)
- Starline - Parent Helpline for home learning
- Ramadan At Home - Messaging and materials from Public Health England to support staying at home during Ramadan.
Remote Learning
- Government advice on online learning
- Extensive bank of Resources to support home learning provided by EEF
- Treasure Hunt for KS1&2 from Enigma Maths Hub
- Online maths resources for home education
- Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
- Home education: tips for parents
HR and staffing
- PPE update dated 20 March 2020 providing information on supply and use of PPE for key workers
- Guidance on COVID-19 published by RDD in March 2020 (Click RDD guidance log to download wordfile)
- Tips provided by Bedford Borough Council on Working from Home during the Covid 19 lockdown
- Tips provided by Bedford Borough Council on Working from Home with children during the Covid 19 lockdown when the worker is living with children
- Safeguarding awareness training from the NSPCC
Learners' mental health
- Letter from CAMHS updating strategy for supporting children and young people at risk during the Covid 19 crisis. (Click CAMHS letter to download word file)
- Children’s guide to coronavirus: Child friendly slides about Covid 19 from the Children’s Commissioner.
- Coronavirus mental health resources: resources for mental health and wellbeing provided by Mentally Healthy Schools
- Mental Health advice Vyners School: Mental health advice during the Covid 19 crisis for children and young people from Vyner’s School.
- Non-screen activities: What can you do when there’s no school and you're stuck at home? Here are 25 fun ideas to choose from. More at Pobble.com
- Playing actively in and around the home: Advice for supporting children in active play provided by www.playwales.org.uk
- Supporting children and young people’s mental health during the corona virus outbreak provided by NSPCC
- Helping Families to deal with death storybook
Official guidance
- UK Government advice: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
- Ofsted Guidance: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ofsted-coronavirus-covid-19-rolling-update
- Joint Teacher Union advice: https://neu.org.uk/press-releases/coronavirus-crisis-joint-union-advice-covid-19
- Reopening Guidance
Attendance
Exams
FSM
Funding
HR
IT Support and equipment
- Schools to benefit from education partnerships with tech giant
- Technology support for children and schools during Covid-19
Safeguarding
Schools /Key workers/vulnerable children/Education
- Elegibility for government childcare offers protected
- Critical workers who can access schools or educational settings
- COVID-19 guidance for schools and other educational settings
- Actions for HE providers
- Actions for schools
- What Parent and Carers need to know about schools during the coronavirus outbreak
- Modification to school registration legislation changes
- Dissaplication notice: school inspections legislation changes
- Reducing burdens on education and care settings
- SEND risk assessment guidance
- Managing school premises
- Admission appeals
- EYFS framework coronavirus dissaplication
- Statutory guidance School behaviour and attendance: parental responsibility measures
- Modification notice: school registration legislation changes
SEND
- Support the wellbeing of primary pupils with SEND
- Changes to the law on EHCP'S
- SEND Code of Practice
- Modification notice: education health and care plans legislation changes
Trainees
Travel
Distanced Learning
- Adapting teaching practice for remote education
- Adapting the curriculum for remote education
- Keeping pupils motivated and engaged
- Using a virtual learning environment
- Adaptive teaching design
- Adapting the primary school curriculum
- Adapting secondary geography curriculum
- Remote education practice for schools
- Adapting secondary science curriculum
- Adapting the secondary curriculum across mutliple subjects
- Using video lessons
- Using digital teaching tools
- Supporting engagement in learning for pupils when direct communication is limited
- Keeping primary and secondary pupils motivated and engaged at a distance
- Remote education during Covid 19
Wellbeing
Safeguarding and online safety
- Coronavirus Posters for people with disabilities (Photosymbols)
- Example of Child Protection Policy - Coronavirus Addendum
- Coronavirus explainer in Makaton (Ineqe)
- Coronavirus guidance for schools
- UPDATED Supporting vulnerable children and young people during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak (gov.uk)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice and support for parents and carers (NSPCC)
- What children are saying to Childline about coronavirus (NPSCC)
- Mentally Healthy Schools (Anna Freud Centre) toolkits
- Safeguarding from a Distance Leaflet (Letovo School)
- Safeguarding information sheet for governing boards (NGA)
- Thinkuknow is the national online safety education programme from CEOP. These documents provide advice on keeping your child safe online.
- Primary phase: Keeping your child safe online while they are off school (Primary)
- Secondary phase: Keeping your child safe online while they are off school (Secondary
- Twenty Safeguarding Tips for live lesson streaming
- Support for schools from NSPCC on Updating safeguarding policies
- Domestic abuse support - UK says no more safe spaces
Staff mental health
- Coronavirus: How to protect your mental health: tips on how to avoid anxiety during the Covid 19 crisis, by Kirstie Brewer BBC News. 16 March 2020. Click to download Word file.
- Promoting your mental health and wellbeing: ten top tips on taking care of your mental health from the Public Health Workplace Health Team.
- Mental Health and well-being for working from home: a complete action plan to support home workers during the Covid 19 Lockdown from the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust.
- Managing Stress: self-care during the coronavirus crisis: a poster designed by EdPsychInsight to help get through the daily stresses of Lockdown and the Covid 19 Crisis.
- Supporting your mental health while working from home: advice and guidance from My Whole Self.
- Education Support Partnership advice for anyone who works in a school.
- School Advice well-being app
Vulnerable learners
- COVID-19 guidance for schools: Safeguarding vulnerable pupils and students.docx: Advice and guidance to schools for vulnerable children provided by Bedford Borough Council. (Click to download Word file)
- COVID-19 risk assessment template for EHC plan pupils/students: template to be used to create an EHC plan based on Government guidance on vulnerable children and young people (updated 25 March 2020). (Click to download Word file)