School news highlights

All schools are required to submit a prejudice-based incident report for the academic year 23-24. This includes a nil return, which means schools must report even if they have not recorded any incidents. The deadline for submitting the report is 25 October 2024.

We know that schools and parents can sometimes find it difficult to find the information they need, being able to talk to someone to navigate the support on offer will help ensure that the right support is available at the right time, first time; therefore we are providing a support line service.

The Education Finance team has published this month's Finance Focus Newsletter. As this is the first edition of the new academic year, this is a bumper edition with a number of important articles and information.

Please ensure we have received the attendance information for new Yr R and Yr 7 children by 26 September to enable the next stage of the process to be concluded.

Further to the change of structure of the High Needs SEND Service into a locality structure to support good relationships with Schools and Settings, we are very pleased to announce Amy Hanton will be the Head of Service for North, East and Broadland.

R;pple is an interceptive tool designed to present a visual prompt which works alongside any filtering solution already in place identifying potentially damaging online content.

Payments for Pupil Premium Plus for Previously Looked After Children for the financial year 2025 to 2026 will be paid based on children recorded in the October 2024 school census for mainstream and special schools. Please ensure you have communicated this information to all families as they will need to declare their child's previously looked after status to school for inclusion.

The revised guidance the Department for Education (DfE) published for is information only at this stage so that schools and colleges can plan for the commencement of the guidance on 1 September 2024.