Welcome to the Summer Headteacher Briefing 13 th June 2019

1. Welcome to the Summer Headteacher Briefing13th June 2019 Thursday 4th October 2018

2. Agenda • Welcome – Nick Lee • Nottingham Academy – Marcus Shepherd • RSE – Catherine Kirk • Targeted Family Support Around the School – Corina Ioannou & Sara-Jane Brighouse • Priority Families – Paul Martin • SEND Strategy & High Needs Funding – • Janine Walker • Update Inc. department developments – Nick Lee

3. Nottingham Academy • Marcus Shepherd • Principal of The Nottingham Wells Academy (Ransom Road)

4. RSE • Catherine Kirk • RSE Consultant

5. RSE update • New RSE Guidance https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781150/Draft_guidance_Relationships_Education__Relationships_and_Sex_Education__RSE__and_Health_Education2.pdf • Parent concerns (parent meeting slides and top tips on extranet) • Support for implementation (all key documents on school’s extranet) • RSE Day https://www.sexeducationforum.org.uk/resources/rse-day-27-june-2019 @RSE_day

6. New Guidance - key points • Relationships and Sex Education for secondary, Relationships Education for primary and Health Education for both Schools to determine how to deliver • Positive action against misogyny, homophobia, sexism and stereotypes • LGBT – fully integrated not stand-alone • Sequential and progressive curriculum • Complement coverage in NC subjects • Strong emphasis on the online world • Reflect the law in relation to relationships • Take account of faith background • Partnership with parents/carers • Ensure accessibility • Assessment

7. Working with parents • Know what will be taught and when • Inform about rights to withdraw (from sex education) • Given opportunities to understand the purpose and content • Reach out to all parents through a range of processes • Discussion with parents who choose to withdraw and keep a record • SEND – head may take a pupil’s needs into account • Purposeful education for those withdrawn

8. Free RSE Support • Staff meetings/Inset (general RSE or themed) • Support with parents’ meetings • Consultancy (policy, curriculum, consultation) • Resources/signposting • Central training • Termly network • Catherine.kirk@nottinghamcity.gov.uk • @RSE_day (twitter/Instagram) • http://www.nottinghamschools.org.uk/teaching-and-learning-support/relationships-and-sex-education/statutory-rse-2020/ • Free RSE workshops for pupils: • Vanessa.mcfarlane@nhs.net

9. Targeted Family Support Around the School • Corina Ioannou & • Sara-Jane Brighouse

10. Targeted Family Support Around the School Corina Ioannou - Service Manager Targeted Family Support Sara-Jane Brighouse - Project Manager Children’s Strategy & Improvement

11. Team Around the School (TAS) Pilot • Pilot in the Autumn term, December 2017, 3 schools identified • Commissioned by Nick Lee Head of Access & Learning and led Sophie Russell Head of Children’s Strategy & Improvement • The aim was for Head Teachers to identify their most concerning children for discussion at the TAS meeting • Partners invited to share intelligence about what was already known about those families – (Priority Families, Education Welfare, Youth Offending, Targeted Youth Support, Early Help, Targeted Family Support, Head Teacher, Designated Safeguarding Lead, SENCO)

12. Team Around the School Pilot Findings • Increase the visibility of non-statutory early help and targeted services and schools’ awareness of the support available for families in their community (including Voluntary & Community Sector). • Targeted Family Support Teams were identified as the service in the middle of Early Help and Statutory services recognising the wealth of knowledge around their communities and resources which have been developed working with children and their families 0-19 across the City. • Increase the confidence of schools in brokering early support and intervention for pupils and their families because during the pilot of the children identified most were known to Children’s Integrated Services. • The recommendation was to develop an offer of early intervention in the form of family support around the schools using the Family Support Pathway model to identify and intervene earlier.

13. The Offer • To offer a more collaborative, multi-agency, preventative offer of family support, improving outcomes for families in Nottingham City. • To improve attendance, behaviour and to reduce the need to exclude children and young people. • To support demand management for costly, statutory intervention, which will help to protect the City’s early help and targeted offer of support for families. NB: All immediate safeguarding referrals will be dealt with via the schools safeguarding procedures; this will include completing a Multi-Agency Request Form, which will be sent to Children & Families Direct Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub. The Consultation phone line is available through Children & Families Direct Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub.

15. Progress • Consultation on the offer has taken place with Schools and Education colleagues (Autumn 2018/ Spring 2019) • Targeted Family Support teams made contact with schools in their geographical area (February 2019) • Targeted Family Support team and Offer details, including named Family Support Worker, were emailed out to every City School Head Teacher (April 2019) • 35% Schools responded to the original email • 56% Schools have a visit booked in or completed • Presentation to Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) Network (2019)

16. Thank you for listening Contact: Corina.Ioannou@nottinghamcity.gov.uk Sara-Jane.Brighouse@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

17. Priority Families - An Offer to Schools • Paul Martin • Manager of Family Intervention Project

18. Supporting Families Against Youth Crime Paul Martin – FIP/PF Ops Manager Karen Eaves - Accredited Practitioner Email:- paul.martin@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

19. Work Streams

20. Specialist Training & Network Development Phase 1: Starting Autumn 2019

21. Specialist Training & Network Development Phase 2: Spring 2020 Trailblazer Schools Enhanced support to a small number of schools across primary, secondary & post 16 sectors Phase 3: May/June 2020 Learning Conference Share learning from Trailblazer sites

22. SEND Strategy & High Needs Funding • Janine Walker • Head of SEND & Vulnerable Pupils

23. HLN overview • 728 pupils supported with HLN funding in mainstream schools • 65% are supported at Band A, 29% Band B and 6 % Band C • Growing numbers, particularly of pupils with ASD • 89% increase in primary ASD top-up pupils (mainstream plus special) over the last 5 years • Over this period, a consistent two-thirds of primary aged ASD top-up pupils have been in educated in mainstream settings • ASD pupils receiving HLN in mainstream schools increased from 93 to 174 between 2014 and 2019

24. Financial Context – Mainstream HLN Budgets (£) • Due to increase in numbers of HLN pupils, costs of AIA also increase • This has significantly reduced the amount left available for HLN in 2019/20 causing a budget pressure • Hoping to increase the HLN budget in-year following announcement of final 2019/20 HLN funding allocation in July

25. Financial Context – Overall High Needs Budget • Nottingham is due to be the highest gaining LA in percentage terms (23%) under the High Needs National Funding Formula (HN NFF) • So our long term funding prospects are positive • Our full HN NFF allocation was £6.745m higher than our 2017/18 baseline • BUT our gains over the first 2 years of the HN NFF have been capped at 3% per head of population • AND we currently have a £1.3m funding gap based on our current level of high needs expenditure • Funding increases from 2020/21 subject to next Spending Review

26. Mainstream HLN in context of SEND strategy • Importance of ensuring mainstream schools can continue to be inclusive • Committed to reviewing HLN funding • Focus group input sought to shape our thinking and proposals: • Issues with the current HLN funding system • Possible new future models of funding & provision • What could make a difference outside of core funding system e.g. training, equipment loan, system support • Will fund cover for focus group participation through SEND strategy grant

27. Update including Department Developments Nick Lee

28. Nottingham's Big City Reads • The month-long celebration of reading will help young people in Nottingham discover, enjoy and celebrate the stories of our time. • We are delighted to announce Nottingham’s Big City Reads campaign, turning the city into one massive, interactive book group. Four books, chosen and championed by our Young City of Literature Ambassadors, will fill the city with stories that speak to what it is to be alive in 2019. • The city’s collective page-turners are: • ·A Change Is Gonna Come – Anthology • · We Are Not Okay by Natália Gomes • ·Heartstopper by Alice Oseman • · The Boy Who Lied by Kim Slater • Launching on 1st July 2019 and running throughout the month, the books will be available to grab for free at special locations across the city centre and neighbourhoods including Nottingham libraries, schools, trams, Nottingham City and Children’s Hospitals, and the Beach on Old Market Square, filling communities with engaging stories, voices, themes and issues of our time.

29. Follow the teaser videos and hints on where the books can be found across our social media channels using the hashtag #BigCityReads. Join us at the Big City Readers’ Day on Friday July 12th for discussions with the featured authors of the four books, as well as our Young Nottingham City of Literature Ambassadors who will all be made available for interview(some pictured above). Big City Reads 2019 is supported by generous grants from Arts Council England and Nottingham Hospitals Charity. Key partnerships include Nottingham City Libraries, NET Nottingham Tram and Nottingham Education Improvement Board. Sandeep Mahal, Director of Nottingham City of Literature said: “We are enormously excited that the authors have accepted the invitation from our Young Ambassadors to be part of our first Big City Reads campaign. We are planning some fantastic events to celebrate the themes of the books, the power of reading and placing books where they need to be, in the heart of the community.” Read, enjoy and share the power of reading @Nottmcityoflit #bigcityreads https://nottinghamcityofliterature.com/blog/big-city-reads-our-selected-books

30. Holiday Hunger • A group of agencies coordinated the bid for Nottingham Holiday Hunger provision from the DfE grant. Unfortunately we were not successful this year, but we have continued to gather details of agencies that are still able / interested in offering summer activities with meals for children across Nottingham.

31. Active Notts • Active Notts are coordinating the details of all Holiday Hunger provision in Nottingham – via a short form accessed at the following link: • https://www.activenotts.org.uk/forms/view/2669 • Our strategy - Getting Active Together, is all about individuals, groups, clubs, communities and organisations working together to help more people in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire to live more activelives by 2021.

32. Ask Lion • We will also be looking at how Ask Lion (Local information Online) can put a ‘sticker’ against activities advertised there where a meal or snack is available. We hope this will provide a visual flag to parents / young people of what is available. • Nottingham City Council will be providing activities throughout the summer holidays, across the city, for Children, Young People and Families. • All Early Help activities plus many community / voluntary activities are advertised at: • https://www.asklion.co.uk/kb5/nottingham/directory/home.page

35. Simply Google WE Schools sign up and register your school now!

36. Do two acts of social good: One local + One international Boots and WE aim to empower a generation of young people in Nottingham to fulfil their potential by developing their personal wellbeing and workplace readiness through social action Personal Health & Wellbeing: student led positive health and wellbeing campaigns empowering young people to feel good about themselves and confident in managing their personal health. Workplace skills and opportunities: enabling young people to identify and develop functional skills so they can confidently explore and access tangible pathways into future employment +

37. Here to help: Trae James – WE Workshop facilitator Workshops: • Students decide the issues they care about • Decide what action they want to take • Plan their social action This doesn’t even have to be ‘extra’ workload – your existing school projects & good causes can count towards WE Day tickets.

38. Change of Bank Holiday • The government recently announced that the first bank holiday in May 2020 will be changed from Monday 4 May to Friday 8 May 2020. • Decision made by the government to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day and form part of a three-day weekend of commemorative events. • This will affect the current published Term Dates for the 2019/20 academic year.   • The revised school calendar will be updated on our website to reflect this change. It will also be in next week’s SCENE. • Ensure that staff are aware that Monday 4th May 2020 is now a normal school / working day.  Any prior commitments which have been pre-booked and are not moveable, to be considered and managed on an individual school basis.

39. Future Networks/ Meetings Headteacher Briefings: • 26th September 2019 • 6th February 2020 • 11th June 2020 DSL Network meetings: • Wednesday 16th October 19 – All day conference with keynote speaker Andrew Hall (one place per school/ setting and a small charge) • Tuesday 11th February 2020 • Tuesday 19th May 2020