Our pioneering team with established packages to support schools with both statutory and curriculum assessment and develop appropriate and effective approaches to data.

Head teachers have a responsibility to comply with the moderation and monitoring processes conducted by School Improvement Service on behalf of Halton Local Authority, and the data validation processes conducted by the LA Education Data Analyst.

Local authorities must ensure that their schools administer the statutory assessment and reporting arrangements appropriately and ensure that their schools understand and follow the statutory requirements.

Schools are supported throughout the year by training workshops for year groups as well as Assessment mangers briefings.

We will conduct monitoring visits throughout the year for various elements of the assessment process.

They also have a team of experienced teachers from Year 2 & 6 who conduct the yearly centralised moderation process.

For further information please contact:

[email protected]

[email protected]

We can offer a Service Level Agreement for clerking delivered via Entrust Governor services.

Advice, guidance and support is delivered by an experienced and highly knowledgeable team, ensuring governors are effective in their role and fulfil their statutory responsibilities.

Clerks and governance professionals | Entrust (www.entrust-ed.co.uk)

Governor Training

We provide a wide range of training based on the current needs of schools. This offer includes termly ‘Governor Directorate Briefings’, covering up to date topical matters as well as explaining the local and national current pictures of education.

Governor Vacancies

Wewith any current vacancies you may have on your governing body. Halton also have a statutory obligation for their schools to have an LA Governor on school governing bodies. If you do don’t have an LA Governor please contact [email protected]

Governor Hub

Governor Hub is a support website for schools to access: GovernorHub helps your board to work together better, keeps members connected, and provides a ready-made body of evidence when you need it most. It is now used by many schools across the country – there is a cost.

For further information please contact:

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Our dedicated team is highly regarded, providing timely and effective guidance around critical incidents, alongside ongoing support, enabling you to meet your statutory responsibilities in safeguarding children.

For further information please contact:

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The law states that Religious Education (RE) must be taught in all schools, but it is not a part of the National Curriculum.

The structure of Halton's SACRE is defined by law and is made up of four groups or committees.

These are:

• The main religions in the local area and their denominations
• The Church of England
• Teacher and Headteacher associations
• The Local Authority

The role of SACRE is to support and give the local authority advice on matters that are related to collective worship and religious education in community schools.

Halton SACRE is a statutory body, made up of people from a wide range of faith groups who volunteer to be members, but it is not part of the local authority. The SACRE can ask for a review of the locally agreed Religious Education syllabus and will also consider requests from schools that want to stop providing an act of worship (broadly Christian in nature) to some, or all of the children in the school.

The role of a SACRE is also to support the religious education curriculum and collective worship within schools. As part of their responsibilities, SACREs must provide an agreed syllabus to support the religious education curriculum in schools, which must be reviewed every five years. The requirement on maintained schools within, including community schools without a religious designation and voluntary controlled schools, is to follow the Halton Agreed Syllabus at all key stages (for the purpose of which the Halton SACRE has adopted the Lancashire Agreed Syllabus).

The Halton LA Officer to Halton SACRE is Sarah Murdoch [email protected]

The Clerk to Halton SACRE is Elizabeth Chan [email protected]

The SEND Inclusive Learning Team bring together a wealth of experience across all phases of education from Early Years to Secondary and from mainstream and special school settings.

The team keep the SEND code of practice 0 to 25years (2015) at the heart of everything they do, this includes reference to law and legislative requirements.

The offer from the team is wide and includes aspects such as training, advice, guidance and access to model policies, reference documents and relevant updates. Support can be practical and bespoke.

The purpose is to ensure that every setting meets their statutory responsibilities in respect of Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND and to support the continued development of your inclusive practices. The overall aim of the team is to support your setting to ensure a positive impact on outcomes for all children.

The team also deliver preparation training for HLTA Status, post graduate programmes alongside Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Hope University and are franchised trainers for Lancashire’s PIVATS 5. They have developed a partnership with Nasen and regularly deliver Masterclass webinars to a national audience, funded by the DfE. The team lead on a number of initiatives linked to the Education Priority Plan and from summer 2022 will be licenced to delivery of MPTA training.

Halton School Improvement team can also offer a Peer to Peer SEND Review Offer. 

For further information please contact:

[email protected]