Guidance for educational settings
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Ofsted
- Ofsted Section 5 Inspection Handbook. Published November 2019.
- Ofsted Section 8 Inspection Handbook. Published May 2019, Updated November 2019.
- Inspecting safeguarding Early Years, education and skills setting. Guidance for inspectors carrying out inspections under the education inspection framework from September 2019. Published May 2019, updated September 2019.
- Ofsted Slideshare
- Latest Documents from Ofsted
- Ofsted News (Youtube)
DfE
- Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020: This document is for information only and does not come into force until 1 September 2020. Schools and colleges must continue to have regard to KCSIE 2019 until then.
- School Attendance Guidance 2019: guidance for maintained schools, academies, independent schools and local authorities (DfE). Published July 2019
- Exclusion Guidance 2017: exclusion from maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units in England Statutory guidance for those with legal responsibilities in relation to exclusion (DfE). Published September 2017
- Online Guidance: what academies, free schools and colleges should publish online (DfE). Published June 2016, updated October 2018.
- Online Statutory Guidance: what maintained schools must publish online. Published September 2014, updated October 2018.
Bedford Borough
Headteacher conference 21.08.20
Documents for school improvement advisors and headteachers
SEND
Coproduced decision making template. Children in Special Schools and alternative provision
Coproduced decision making template. Children with EHCP in mainstream schools
- SENCO Newsletter 11.1.21
- SEN online resources DFE
- Lockdown 3. Strategy to mitigate risk to learners with SEND
- Talking Success poster
- Small Steps flyer
- SEND web links for home learning
- Nasen
Attendance
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Safeguarding and online security
- How to handle sexting incidents as a parent or teacher (SWGfL)
- "So You Got Naked Online" Released SWGfL guidance for young people who had already sent a 'sext'. Additional support material
- Undressed Song and Video (LGfL DigiSafe) to help schools and parents spread the message of never getting undressed in front of a phone, iPad or computer, for the very youngest primary pupils.
- Online Safety (Breck Foundation). The Breck Foundation campaigns for a safer internet for all children and young people. Breck's Last Game (certificate 15) has been rolled out in secondary schools across the UK to highlight the risks of grooming.
- Cybersecurity and Online Learning. Secure Schools Cybersecurity company have made available to schools without charge a new collection of documents covering security features of Video Teleconferencing (VTC) technology.