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Click the link below to view discussion pro forma for Social Care and Virtual School Staff about school provision when a looked after child is being brought back into Oxfordshire. The proforma forms an agenda for discussion.

Click here to view school Placement Discussion and Advice Pro Forma

How to use the pro forma

1. If appropriate, complete and send to us in advance of a discussion. Please send it to:
   
   Early years to 10
   
   Kelly.beauchamp@oxfordshire.gov.uk
   
   11 to 16 year olds
   
   Venetia.mayman@oxfordshire.gov.uk
2. If the discussion needs to take place quickly it may form the agenda for a phone meeting and be completed by Venetia or Kelly during the discussion. As far as possible use the proforma as a checklist for information you will need to bring to the discussion. It is in not in any sense an application and is simply there to help you ensure all issues are explored at the earliest opportunity.
3. Please also feel free contact us for advice with regard to finding a school for a child moving into another local authority if it would be helpful.

Social Care staff may find it useful to be aware of the following:

• The social inclusion officers are key contacts for placing a looked after child in school.  They are:

South	Central	North
Sharon Oliver T: 01865 816280	Darren Utonagan T: 01865 815138	Sreeja Bhaskaran T: 01865 810658

• Details of Meadowbrook College (PRUIS) provision are on the College link on the intranet with guidance and all relevant forms. Simply put the college name into site search.
• Students returning to county without a school place are always referred to the Rapid Response and Integration team at Meadowbrook College first.  The team will assess the student, provide education and recommend the necessary referrals to secure a permanent school place.  KS4 pupils can be referred to the termly panels to apply for a place at Meadowbrook College, this is subject to the availability of places and the criteria published on the Meadowbrook College website.
• If a child has a statement early discussions will need to take place with the Special Educational Needs Officer as a priority.
  
  Click here to view the Special Educational Needs Officers details.
• Denominational schools have different criteria to county schools and these are set by the governors. Some will place looked after children as the highest priority.
• Schools are required to admit looked after children even if the appropriate year is already full.
• Area panels discuss the placement of looked after children and other vulnerable learners with a view to ensuring that they are more evenly placed across an area than is current. This will not delay the admission of a child.
• For a pilot period of one year from 1 April 2009 secondary schools receiving looked after learners in the middle of the year (i.e. at any time other than the beginning of the September term) will be allocated between £2000 and £3500 depending on age and need.  Each area group of heads will determine how best they will deploy the resource; this may include joint provision for vulnerable learners. Approaches to schools should not be delayed by waiting for panel meetings; schools will be credited post hoc for each vulnerable learner meeting the agreed criteria admitted.
• Places will not always be available at a preferred school as the intention of the area panels is to make placements of vulnerable learners more even.  A placement will be offered but it may not be in the preferred school.

Click here to view school Placement Discussion and Advice Pro Forma

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