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Annual safeguarding report

All educational establishments are required to carry out an annual review of their safeguarding practice and to provide information to the local authority about how the duties set out in the DfE guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education September 2025’ have been discharged.

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CSE, CE, Gangs and County Lines Training Day

A training day will take place in the lecture theatre at Leicestershire Police Headquarters on Monday 21 January from 9.30am – 4.30pm to raise awareness of child sexual and criminal exploitation, gangs and county lines.

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World Hand Hygiene Day 2022

World Hand Hygiene Day takes place this year on Thursday 5 May with the theme 'Unite for safety: clean your hands'.

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Multi-agency audit briefing session - schools

As a Local Area we anticipate an imminent inspection to evaluate the effectiveness of our arrangements for children and young people with SEND and how all partners work together to ensure positive outcomes.

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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.

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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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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.

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Enhanced summary care record

Do you want to, potentially, help save the life of one of your pupils?

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Eye tests - Eyepod

Where Leicester City Council employed 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.

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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 .

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