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FEDERATION SUPPORTINGOURARMED FORCES CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS


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“Fortunately,due to the ages of my children at the time, there were spaces in the school -and so I dealt directly with them, as advised by the LEA. We landed on Tuesday and the children started school on the Friday.”


landed on Tuesday and the children started school


OTHER ELEMENTS HOW THE RAF CAN HELP CDO,Mark Davis (who is also the Unit’s Armed Forces Covenant Champion) gets involved if the process hits snags:


“Weoften raise school admissions issues at Peterborough Armed Forces Partnership Board meetings. If service personnel receive ashort notice AO for aposting this does put pressure on the school to develop aschool place; if they know in advance achild is coming to the area they can plan more effectively.In some situations but not common, afamily has turned up on Monday morning assuming their child can just turn up and go straight into aclass.


“The advice is contact the local authority and register with the admissions team as soon as you can, if you do not have details of your postal address, please use the Station postcode or contact your local


HIVE Information Officer who will advise you on school admissions contact. If you cannot access aschool place for your child and need support contact your CDO who will support you through that process.”


NEED HELP? NEED HELP?


The team at the RAF Families Federation have lots of experience supporting families who are having difficulties with school place allocation. We are grateful to the relationships we have built over time with covenant leads in Local Authorities and, although school places can’t be created from thin ,these relationships have definitely helped to improve understanding of the situations our families find themselves in which has helped smooth the process.


The team at the RAF Families Federation have lots of experience supporting families who are having diffi culties with school place allocation. We are grateful to the relationships we have built over time with covenant leads in Local Authorities and, although school places can’t be created from thin air, these relationships have defi nitely helped to improve understanding of the situations our families fi nd themselves in which has helped smooth the process.


FURTHERINFORMATION:


•RAF FF’s regional covenant support: raf-ff.org.uk/armed-forces-covenant


•Children’s Education Advisory Service (CEAS): gov.uk/government/groups/ the-childrens-education-advisory- service-ceas or call its helpline CEAShelpline: 01980 618244


•Service Pupil Premium –what you need to know and also abest practice guide: gov.uk/government/publications/the- service-pupil-premium


•Service children in state schools –a handbook for teachers and other professionals: gov.uk/government/publications/ service-children-in-state-schools- handbook


Mrs Charlotte Blake (Deputy Head) and Mr Rhys Thrower (Head).


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SPRING 2019 raf-ff.org.uk


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