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Our first #kinship #conference is now due to take place on the 14 October 2024 in London and will provide contemporary insights from researchers, professionals and leadership teams in the children and families sector on the National Kinship Strategy. ow.ly/8avl50SvOjB

@educationgovuk Great to see the @NAVSH_UK chair in this picture - making sure that promoting the education of our looked after children, previously looked after children and children in need is on the agenda!

Tonight we’ve opened the doors @educationgovuk, to discuss how we can work together to drive up standards & break down barriers to opportunity. We’re resetting the relationship between government and stakeholders so we can be partners in the push for better.

We are very excited to be part of this project. The arts can offer so much for our children in care.

Virtual school development day today - bringing together our service, governing body and peer mentors!

Congratulations @bphillipsonMP on your appointment as Secretary of State for Education. @NAVSH_UK look forward to working with you to support our VSHs to further improve the educational experiences and outcomes for our care-experienced children + children with a social worker.

The rain can’t stop the fun at foster carers’ summer fair! Lots of books to give away and bookmark making fun!

Excited to be ⁦⁦⁦@GorseHillStudio⁩ for a showing of amazing Adam’s short film!

Starting to plan our 2025 Bridge conference - bringing together schools and social care as champions for our children’s education - looking for a keynote speaker preferably from a social care background who is passionate about education! Any recommendations gratefully received…

Lovely ‘graduation’ this morning with cohort one of our Belong (attachment aware and trauma informed schools) programme - reflecting on how far they have all come in two years! Excited to tap into their expertise as we start out with cohort 3…

Amazing day in London yesterday with 8 of our year 10s and two of our peer mentors - off to @ucl today to find out more about student life! Hakuna Matata!

Today together with @TraffordVS a fantastic afternoon surrounded by education colleagues for our DSL and DT meeting. Networking with each other and services for children in Trafford #workingtogether

Loads of amazing transition good ideas shared today by our schools, social workers and carers! We will be pulling together a best practice guide - watch this space…

Come and find me @TraffordVS #transition event today! Find out how kooth.com can support your students! #transition #year6 #year7

Excited to start our first primary to secondary transitions event to promote strategies to help our children prepare to move on to the next steps in their education journey - thank you so much to my incredible deputy head Shannon for organising all this!

@NAVSH_UK #adventureswithmichaelsbag @JohnLewisRetail @NAVSH_UK

@NAVSH_UK does not usually promote or endorse products or services. But we thought #NAVSH24 attendees would like this one. #ifyouknowyouknow johnlewis.com/john-lewis-bui…

#NAVSH24 has closed and what an inspirational journey it has been. "Lived experience and professional experience side by side". See you next year at #NAVSH25 !!!

On my way to Birmingham for the @NAVSH_UK conference! Excited to hear from all the incredible speakers and such a diverse group of people with care experience - let’s go!

Happy international women’s day everyone! I’m feeling inspired after a fabulous event that our amazing Tyra helped to organise! It definitely got me reflecting on how we can be more curious about each other’s experiences and perceptions in the service - lots to think about 💡

New research from our very own @michaelbett_eli contributes to the understanding of the role of Virtual School Head Teachers in Scotland and identifies emerging features as the virtual school concept is translated to a new context. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…