From local authorities, safeguarding, mental health and Early Help services, to community out-reach, mentoring support and more, we consider the range of bodies that schools need to engage with.
We discuss how to create partnerships with positive reciprocal relationships and how to get the most out of key agencies at a time of stretched resources.
We begin with some general principles for engaging with external agencies and ensuring our schools and pupils get what they need from them, before discussing some of the most common agencies schools can expect to, would want to, or must legally engage with.
We talk about how primary schools might frame their Early Help offer to ensure it is effective and we discuss effective community out-reach, including how to access local funding streams and working with and engaging parents.
Our three guests give us lots of examples of how they engage with these agencies and of their own community out-reach work and partnerships.
As ever, this episode is hosted by Helen Frostick is a National Leader of Education and semi-retired primary school headteacher. She is also a long-standing member of the Headteacher Update editorial board.
Our guests are
- Laura McPhee is headteacher at Loughborough Primary School, Lambeth. She is also board member of the Virtual School Management Board and executive committee member of the Lambeth Safer Children Partnership.
- Emmanuel Awoyelu is a primary school teacher, SENCO and former assistant headteacher. He is currently working overseas as a specialist inclusion teacher in the UAE and has a wealth of experience supporting children from disadvantaged backgrounds. He developed the tutoring programme used in his previous school and has created similar tutoring models for his charity, The Reach Out.
- Sabah Malik has been working in senior leadership over the last 10 years across west London. Sabah is currently working in a large infant school in Hillingdon and leads the early years including a large nursery. Sabah has a Master’s in leadership and management focused in particular on the important role parents play as early educators, supporting accelerated learning and progress. Sabah also has a keen interest in wellbeing, coaching and staff development.
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