Kent Communication & Assistive Technology Service The Old Railway School Wainwright Place Newtown Ashford Kent TN24 0PF Tel: 01233 629859 Fax: 01233 639516
Kent and Medway Communication and Assistive Technology Service (KM CAT)

Bespoke Training application Form

We are able to offer training that can be delivered in your setting, to a group of interested staff and parents. All of our bespoke training is focused on enabling others to use technology to support special needs education.

We can offer:

In-house delivery of the courses that we deliver from our base in Ashford, in your school or other preferred setting.

Remote sessions to be delivered through MS Teams.

Tailored workshops delivered in your school or setting, specifically designed for your requirements.

Tailored workshops for specific software and hardware that you may not have available in school, but you are considering buying and evaluating.

If you are interested in bespoke training, you will need to consider the following:

How long you expect the training to last? One day, half a day, a few hours?

How many people it will be delivered to?

Do you have the IT resources already or would you like us bring our equipment or laptops, to access the resource?

Do you have technical staff support to provide any information about your network?

Do you want to consider inviting other schools so that you become a local host school, to help cover the costs and share training requirements?

We ask for this information so that we can tailor the workshop to your needs and determine costs.

Date form completed:
Completed by (name and role):
School setting Address:
Tel no:
E-mail address:
Signed:	Date:

Kent County Council and NHS are data controllers under the scope of the Data Protection Act 1998 and are therefore required to comply with the eight principles of good information handling. We will ensure that your information is processed fairly and lawfully and used only for the intended purpose(s). On occasion it may be necessary to share this information with other agencies on a need to know basis.

Please photocopy or scan all completed forms to keep as part of your school records

Please describe what training course or content you would like. This may delivered face-to-face from our base (if possible), at your setting or remote using MS Teams. You might find it helpful to describe what it is you would like staff to be able to do the end of the training session.
Costings (these are based on covering the cost implications for us to deliver in school):
How many delegates will there be (it is useful to know their roles as well):
Please state what your proposed dates and times for training are:
Please identify what your reasons for requesting external training are by ticking appropriate boxes: Staff/services have attended general courses and it is felt that a larger group of staff would benefit from similar training in order to embed ICT use for special educational needs provision. Our educational context/service requires training that is slightly modified to meet our particular identified working practices. Our educational context/service feels that further training is required for targeted groups of staff in order to extend previous training and apply it to specific individual support planning. Our educational context/service has been working with the specialist teams from KENT CAT and we have identified training support needs in order to improve outcomes of intervention based around ICT use and communication and access technology.

ICT Training requirements (Please tick the relevant options): We have an ICT suite with the relevant software on it. You would need you to bring laptops with relevant software for us to use. We can provide extension leads or sockets for the number of laptops required. We have a data projector and screen/interactive whiteboard in the room where you will be training. We have laptops with or without webcams.
Please state if your delegates have any special requirements that may require modifications to training delivery:

When we have received this completed form from you, we will process the information and cost the training you have request. Details will be sent to you with a request for finance and billing information and your signed agreement to proceed as planned.

Please be aware of the cancellation policy, which applies from the point you have returned you signed agreement to us:

Cancellation Fees:

1 week or less = 50% of the course fee + £12 Admin Costs.

48 hours or less = 75% of course fees + £12 Admin Costs.

24 hours or less = 100% of course fees + £12 Admin Costs.

Please return this completed form to:	Kent CAT Service The Old Railway School Wainwright Place Newtown Ashford Kent TN24 0PF Tel: 01233 629859
KentCATAdmin@kent.gov.uk or KCHT.CAT-Admin@nhs.net