News for Norfolk Education Providers

The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Survey for 2025 will open on Monday 13 January. Please participate and encourage families in your community to complete the survey.

Our November's edition of Norfolk SENDIASS Spotlight e-newsletter has been published with SEND updates, information and articles.

Information about the Joint Targeted Area Inspection in Norfolk announced on 25 November 2024. The inspection will focus on the multi-agency response to children, including unborn children, who are victims of domestic abuse.

Norfolk's MASA, which sets out how the statutory partners work together to keep children safe from harm, is now published. This iteration of the plan is fully compliant with Working Together 2023 and includes details of our Lead and Delegated Statutory partners as well as more information on how education supports the arrangements as well as the crucial role that data and intelligence plays in our safeguarding work.

The Norfolk Safeguarding Children Partnership is pleased to announce the launch of the revised model of Joint Agency Group Supervision (JAGS). Please take a minute to read the revised guidance and use the MS Form if you would like to request a JAGS.

Next week sees the launch of the winter Big Norfolk Holiday Fun programme - see information to help you support children and young people in accessing the programme.

Through the Challenge, the whole system is being invited to share how they are contributing to improving KS2 outcomes and to consider how they could collaborate to support one another.

The Attendance Team are running this survey to understand how confident schools are feeling with the new statutory reforms and look to identify any additional support needs they may have.

Schools can now access an attendance toolkit developed in collaboration with Rob Tarn, National Attendance Ambassador, and attendance hub leads.