Education Engagement and Serious Violence Unit

Transcript:Education Engagement and Serious Violence Unit:
Education Engagement and Serious Violence Unit SAFE (Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed) Programme February 2024 2 Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforces (APST) A specialist workforce model located within AP. Enabling holistic, responsive support to pupils.​ Pilot programme in 22 schools ending March 25. SAFE Taskforces Partnerships led by mainstream secondary schools overseeing a pot of funding to invest in evidence-based interventions. Programme in 10 serious violence hotspots*ending March 25. APST pilot provides funds to AP schools to recruit multi-disciplinary teams onsite in AP, where children have some of the most acute needs in the education system. This brings together different services across education, youth work, health, justice and social care to work more effectively with those children in Alternative Provision schools, most dis-engaged from education and vulnerable to a range of poor outcomes.​ The SAFE programme has set up taskforces led by mainstream schools in each area who work with local partners to plan and commission evidence-based interventions.​ The programme is focused on earlier intervention in secondary school (largely focused on children in Y7-Y9) and those dis-engaging from education. What How * measured using a combination of police offence data and hospital admissions for assault with a sharp object looking at volumes of offences Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforces (APST) SAFE Taskforces SAFE Taskforces are one of two DfE programmes testing new ways to support children most at risk of serious violence. Context Taskforces may be led by a locally agreed organisation e.g. a Multi-Academy Trust, LA, charity or school improvement company. Taskforces identify pupils in years 7 to 9, who have started to disengage from education, and/or are in close proximity to serious violence due to contextual factors. It is down to the Taskforces to manage their own pots of funding and work alongside other local partners and the experts sitting on the Taskforce to determine how the money is spent in their area, based on DfE guidance. SAFE aims to: Improve socio-emotional regulation and well-being Improve school attendance Improve behaviour within schools and the local area Reduce vulnerability to and involvement in serious violence Taskforces, led by schools, develop a strategic, upstream, school-based response across their LA area for at-risk pupils in mainstream schools. Example taskforce make up Set up 3 4 Taskforces take local decisions on the evidence-based interventions that they commission for schools in their area. Commissioning Interventions are informed by the evidence of impact on violence from the