Children with a social worker (CWSW)

At Central Bedfordshire Virtual School, we aim to promote improved educational outcomes for CWSW cohorts, through supporting education settings and wider services to understand and overcome the barriers to learning that are often present for these young people (attendance, attainment and progress, and inclusivity), thus creating a culture of high aspiration and high support.

We will:

• offer a curious, trauma-informed, neuro-affirming and person-centred approach to the work we conduct within our CWSW offer
• encourage all partners to implement an ethos of high aspirations and offer high support for CWSW
• make visible the barriers to learning that can be present for CWSW and support education settings to level up children’s outcomes and narrow the attainment gap, so every CWSW can reach their attainment potential and achieve at least good progress
• work alongside the wider children’s services team and education settings to champion the attendance, attainment, progress and inclusivity of CWSW. We know that attendance correlates directly with progress and attainment but is also a key factor in keeping children safe from harm and ensuring long-term positive life outcomes
• encourage and promote the effectiveness of collaboration between social care and education colleagues, and local authority colleagues and those within education settings
• support education settings to become attachment aware and trauma responsive, utilising and understanding the effectiveness of approaches such as PACE and embedding the use of language aligned with relational approaches when working with CWSW