Welcome to children in care and alternative provision

This service delivery area works in partnership with schools to support children and young people across the borough to access education. The service delivery area is made up of five key teams which is managed by Andy Cooke - Service Delivery Manager Children in Care and Alternative Provision. 

  • The Virtual School
    The core purpose of the Virtual School is to ensure that every Child in Care is accessing appropriate education and that each child make good levels of progress.
     
  • Behaviour Support Advisory Service
    The Behaviour Support Advisory team are available to support schools to build capacity to meet the needs of young people with social, emotional and mental health needs.
     
  • The Student Engagement Programme
    The Student Engagement Programme offers a range of part-time alternative curriculum packages aimed at re-engaging young people in education.
     
  • The Linden Centre
    The Linden Centre is designated as a Pupil Referral Unit and provides assessment and intervention packages to support young people on the edge of permanent exclusion as well as providing education for some of the students who have been permanently excluded.
  • Arthog Outreach
    We offer a variety of adventure and environmental activities on and off site. A short minibus drive gives us access to stunning locations within Shropshire and fantastic opportunities for adventurous activities

The Belonging Strategy

The Children in Care and Alternative Provision have published the Belonging Strategy’ This is an overarching strategy that describes the priorities for all partners across Telford and Wrekin in addressing some of the key issues described through an increased sense of belonging. The Belonging Strategy has 5 priorities:

  1. to ensure that every child has a sense of belonging and feels part of the school, setting or college community, irrespective of background, needs or culture; to enable them to achieve positive outcomes
  2. to support the wellbeing and social, emotional and mental health needs of all young people to enable them to be successful in their place of learning
  3. to work with partner agencies to make sure that there is a systemic approach to working with the families of our most vulnerable learners to ensure effective early interventions to meet need
  4. to ensure that all young people are ready for the next phase of learning and that transitions support them in developing a new sense of belonging in the new environment
  5. to ensure that additional support is available for young people and for schools and settings where there is a breakdown in the sense of belonging in any learning environment.

Download the Belonging Strategy (.pdf Size: 5234Kb)

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Last updated : 26 July 2024

The Student Engagement Programme

The Student Engagement Programme is an alternative provision where we support schools, students and parents to access a full and balanced curriculum in their school and on a part time basis. The work across all our sites is based around the Six Principles of Nurture supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing, making nurture an essential component of our service.

We offer a variety of bespoke alternative provision opportunities for some of the most vulnerable students in the Borough. A range of strategies, interventions and support along with a creative and practical curriculum that include the engagement of very reluctant learners in English and Maths. We use the outdoor environment and sport as often as we can to promote wellbeing.

Download the student engagement programme :

Arthog Outreach

Arthog Outreach Is based in Wellington and operates locally to bring the adventures to you - or with the minimum of travel takes you to the adventure!

Arthog Outreach has the same ethos and focus on high quality outdoor education as the residential centre in North Wales. Outreach operates in a setting which can sometimes be overlooked and creates opportunities to encourage participation in adventurous activities closer to home.

Arthog Outreach offer a variety of adventure and environmental activities on and off site. A short minibus drive gives us access to stunning locations within Shropshire and fantastic opportunities for adventurous activities.

Visit the Arthog Outreach website

Behaviour Support Advisory team

We are an experienced and highly talented group of practitioners who work with children and young people aged 3-18, TAs, school support workers, teachers and senior leadership teams. We work to support inclusion in schools and settings in the area of personal and social development, behaviour for learning,Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) and well being.

We support schools to improve learning for young people with SEND, social emotional and well being needs.

We offer a wide range of courses, CPD and conferences in the area of SEND, social emotional and behaviour needs, along with in-school small group interventions to support settings in encouraging engagement and improving learning behaviour. We can provide Management of Actual or Potential Aggression (MAPA) training for Telford and Wrekin schools and offer a Nurture Group Network and support package.

Visit the Telford Education Services website

The Linden Centre

As an aspirational group of provisions, we create the environment to enable each of our young people to lead an enriched, successful and happy life. Together, we focus on developing the skills, attitudes and qualities for each individual young person to move successfully along to the next stage of their life journey.

Our aim is to reduce the numbers of pupils who are Permanently Excluded from school by offering mainstream schools an alternative provision as an assessment and intervention. We offer a range of interventions so pupils can be supported, either within their mainstream school or at one of our provisions.

Visit The Linden Centre website

Last updated : 28 August 2024