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HEP Briefing
National guidance, Ofsted, public health and Haringey updates — each one summarised, with why it matters and what HEP recommends. The weekly HEP Tuesday email is curated from here.
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Headteachers · SENDCos
Haringey is asking every school to complete its SEND self-evaluation. Returns inform the local area SEND inspection and the support HEP and the local authority offer next year.
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Headteachers · SBM · SENDCos
The autumn school census, including SEND provision data, is due. Check SEN codes and EHCP data before submission.
From this summer’s results and SIP visits: writing is strong, maths greater depth is falling, reading progress for low prior attainers needs attention, attendance is recovering and SEND need is rising.
Ofsted has published changes to its school inspection handbook. The principal changes relate to how inspectors gather evidence on curriculum, inclusion and leadership capacity.
The DfE has updated its Working together to improve school attendance guidance, with new expectations on attendance data, persistent absence and working with families.
The DfE has launched updated integrated curriculum and financial planning (ICFP) tools to help schools link staffing, curriculum and budgets.
Minutes from the Network Leadership Committee: school place planning, the HEP offer for next year and headteacher wellbeing.
Revised guidance for safer working practice for adults who work with children has been published, covering online communication and low-level concerns.
Updated best practice guidance on complaints procedures sets out clearer stages and timescales, and how to handle serial and unreasonable complaints.
UKHSA has refreshed its guidance on exclusion periods and when to contact the health protection team, including measles and scarlet fever.
Three Haringey schools share how they cut persistent absence by a quarter in a year, from first-day calls to attendance mentors.
National results for the Year 4 multiplication tables check show a rise in full marks, with the gap for disadvantaged pupils narrowing slightly.