Following the removal of the Improvement Notice by Minister Janet Daby MP, Kent County Council (KCC) is seeking views on how the Specialist Teaching and Learning Service (STLS) might fit within new ways of working that are being introduced as part of the ongoing transformation of Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) services in Kent.

NurtureUK was commissioned by Kent County Council in September 2021 to run a three year programme of whole school approaches to Nurture for mainstream primary and secondary schools in Kent.

If you’re thinking about returning to practice, the message from staff in the NHS is ‘go for it’.

In 2023 the Department for Education (DfE) published an updated version of Working Together to Safeguard Children (WT 2023).

Kent County Council has reviewed the services it provides to its maintained mainstream and special schools and pupil referral units (PRUs).

In Spring 2023 the previous Government announced its ambition that all parents and carers of primary school-aged children will be able to access term-time childcare in their local area, if they need it, from 8am to 6pm so that parents can access employment and improve labour market participation.

The County LADO service and Education Safeguarding Service merged in September 2024 following an evaluation of the two services.

The Association of Education Advisers (AoEA) has been established to help ensure quality and consistency in the advice given by school and college improvement advisers working in the education system.

The digital form to report your 16 to 19 tuition fund 2023 to 2024 spend will be available for completion between mid-September and mid-October.

The deadline for submitting the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) year-end statement is 5pm on Thursday 26 September 2024.