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Management and leadershipLeadership resources to assist leaders with their roles in being seen as leaders and managers, and deployment of such qualities
/services/health-and-safety/health-and-wellbeing/support-resources-for-leaders/management-and-leadership/Eye tests - Eyepod
Where staff are identified as requiring a vision test and/or corrective spectacles/safety spectacles for DSE or safety purposes, our partners Eyepod provide can these services on behalf of schools. Check with your manager for more details. Schools will be liable for the full cost of any eye tests and corrective appliances provided. Manager approval is required.
/services/health-and-safety/health-and-wellbeing/eye-tests-eyepod/Information for governors about Sustainable Schools Leicester
Through the sustainable schools team, Leicester City Council supports all schools in the city to become more sustainable. Our outcomes are reducing carbon, engaging young people and/or teachers in environmental education, provides opportunities to showcase Leicester City Council and our partners & raises awareness of the climate emergency and how to proactively combat it. Ultimately, we want to support all schools to achieve and maintain Green Flag status in the next 3 years.
/services/environment-health-and-well-being/sustainable-schools/information-for-governors-about-sustainable-schools-leicester/Choose how you move
Track the way you travel using the free BetterPoints app and earn points for walking, cycling, using public transport or car sharing. Swap the points for £5 or £10 high street vouchers or gift the points to local charities.
/community/local-authority-and-partner-initiatives/choose-how-you-move/Young voices / young researchers project with secondary schools
The University of Derby is working with two young researchers with disabilities to investigate the support for young people with special educational needs and disabilities in Leicester City. Participating young people don’t have to have an EHCP and the research team are particularly interested in hearing from pupils in Year 8, 9 and 10.
/community/local-authority-and-partner-initiatives/young-voices-young-researchers-project-with-secondary-schools/Learning, communication and interaction support team
We support schools so that all children and young people with these additional educational needs receive an education that enables them to make progress .
/services/special-education-needs-and-disability-support-service/learning-communication-and-interaction-support-team/National ADHD medication shortages
Please note that this letter, from Professor Ghosh, Deputy Executive Medical Director at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, is currently being distributed to schools across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. It reports a national clinical alert issued by the Department of Health and Social Care to highlight shortages in some medications used to manage symptoms and behaviours associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The supply of these medications is intermittent, changing on a daily basis, and is likely to be affected for the remainder of 2023.
/community/local-authority-and-partner-initiatives/leicestershire-partnership-nhs-trust/national-adhd-medication-shortages/Enhanced summary care record
Do you want to, potentially, help save the life of one of your pupils?
/community/local-authority-and-partner-initiatives/leicestershire-partnership-nhs-trust/enhanced-summary-care-record/Audit of taxi journeys 2019
An audit will take place to look at passenger taxi use in the council and schools are asked to provide information to help facilitate the audit.
/your-council/communications/audit-of-taxi-journeys-2019/Six recommendations for improving behaviour in schools
The Education Endowment Foundation has published their latest guidance report, Improving Behaviour in Schools. Based on the best available evidence, it includes six recommendations for preventing and responding to misbehaviour. Some can be deployed by teachers at classroom level, while others require a school-wide focus.
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