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Welcome to the Peterborough Virtual School podcast! Our vision is that all children known to social care will achieve educational outcomes enabling them to lead happy, healthy and fulfilled lives. Hosted by our very own team alongside those with lived and learned experiences, this podcast is designed to help and support anyone navigating the world of education on behalf of the children they support . We explore how some of the typical barriers faced by this cohort of children can be minimise ...
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S01 E02 Peterborough Virtual School: Our vision and way of working
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All Children Known to Social Care will achieve educational outcomes enabling them to lead healthy, happy and fulfilled lives. Zoe Lattimer and Nic Phillips are back in this episode to explain the specific way of working in Peterborough Virtual School. They detail the intelligence and evidence base which underpins the model and the intention behind …
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S01 E07 Aspiration and Ambition: Empowering Children to Dream Big
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Adam Tams and Anna Noble are joined in this episode by Elle Johnson, Peterborough's Care Leaver Local Offer Led, to discuss why it is so important that we work to encourage aspiration and ambition among young people. They explain the transformative power of high aspirations and the impact these can have in ensuring that young people successfully tr…
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S01 E06 Unaccompanied Children in Care: Strategies and Knowledge to Support Education
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In this episode, Nic Phillips and Fran Haunch are joined by Ishmael Ngundu (Team Manager for Leaving Care). Ishmael shares his extensive knowledge and experience of the specific needs and vulnerabilities of Unaccompanied Children in Care. Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery: Statutory guidance for local author…
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S01 E04 Attendance Matters: Every Minute Counts
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Gina Hayes and Clare Webley from Peterborough Virtual School's Inclusion and Engagement Team are your hosts for this episode. They discuss why good school attendance is so very important for all children and young people and acknowledge some of the barriers which may lead to poor attendance for children and young people known to children's services…
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S01 E05 Transitions and Admissions: Navigating Change, Beginnings and Endings
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In today's episode, Gina Hayes and Amanda Jones from our Inclusion and Engagement team discuss the range of transitions which children may experience throughout their educational journeys - the big ones such as primary to secondary and also the smaller ones, such as moving from learning time to break time and back again. They explore the considerat…
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S01 E03 A Right to Education: A journey through our education system
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In this episode, Fran Haunch and Emma Slade from Peterborough Virtual School's Partnership and Outcomes team are joined by Peterborough's Service Director for Education, Carrie Traill. Fran, Emma and Carrie consider children's rights to education and explore the vision of high quality, full-time and well-matched education for all children and young…
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S01 E01 What is a Virtual School? – Championing Education for Children Known to Social Care
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In the first episode of our Peterborough Virtual School podcast, Zoe Lattimer and Nic Phillips introduce the breadth and scope of the Virtual School. They welcome John Gregg, Executive Director of Children's Services, to explore the important strategic role of the Virtual School to make visible the barriers faced by children known to social care. V…
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