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Housing

Housing/Accommodation Support Care Leavers’ Foundation Grants up to £400 to care leavers aged 18-29 – household items, emergency living expenses, education costs, medical needs, training and employment. The Tunstall Jubilee Foundation Grants to Individuals & organisations. Supporting young people leaving care by the provision or […]

Health

Health Support Mental Health Support

Finance

Finance Support Buttle UK Awards grants of up to £2,000 to estranged young people aged 16-20 for support with education, employment and training, setting up home, and improving emotional and physical wellbeing. Applications should be made by statutory or voluntary organisations on your […]

Education

Learning is life long and Sutton Virtual School will endeavour to support you through your learning journey throughout your life. Supporting you with applications, finding the right course and supporting the interview process. Local Colleges Supporting Care Experienced Young People into University Isabelle Kirkham is […]

PCLA census data

Identifying Previously Looked After Children (PCLA) The school census requires the school to identify CLA and PCLA children within their school. It may be difficult to identify the Previously Looked After Children (PCLA) within a setting if you haven’t been informed by adoptive / SGO parents of their status. Children previously looked-after are those who […]

Pupil Premium Plus funding

Schools receive £2530 per year Pupil Premium Plus funding for all children who have previously been in care and are now on a Special Guardianship Order, Adoption Order or a Child Arrangement Order. The funding is not a personal budget for the child and can be used by the school in any way they choose […]

ESOL Summer Fun Programme for Sutton UASC

We are excited to launch our ESOL Summer Fun Programme for 2022. We are planning four fantastic days out for our Sutton UASC/ ESOL students. The activities will be free of charge and on most days a small lunch will be provided. If your young person would […]

Foster carer training

We are hosting a programme of training sessions in 2023-24 to ensure that foster carers can gain access to educational knowledge to help them in their role. Please find attached our CPD programme for 2023-24 and a link to sign up for the training sessions. Once you have signed up on the link, we will […]

New to Role training

Sutton Virtual School are offering training sessions for new to role Designated Teachers (Children Looked After and Previously Looked After leads) . Please share this invitation with any appropriate staff in your school who would benefit from attending. This training is specifically for any Sutton Designated teacher who is new to role or will be […]

Primary

Sutton Virtual School works closely with schools, nurseries, foster carers and prospective adopters, to promote the education of children in care. We are keen to support you to give lots of opportunities for fun, play-based learning at home, so we hope that you’ll find lots of useful ideas and information here. If you’d […]