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Governor Training - Cared for and Cared by – the school Governor’s role in the education journey of a Cared for Child’
- This training session describes the journey a child takes before and as they become ‘Cared for’ by the Local Authority.
We are all ‘Corporate Parents’ for our Cared for Children (Looked After Children). This training session describes the journey a child takes before and as they become ‘Cared for’ by the Local Authority. How do children become Cared for? And then, most crucially, what are their educational needs? How can schools work to support those needs? This training session will give Governors both an educational and a Social Care insight into the needs and lives of some of the most vulnerable children in our schools.
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Christopher Tyler (Virtual Headteacher, RMBC)
Christopher Tyler
Christopher is Virtual Head Teacher of our Virtual School. The school supports our Cared for Children (Looked After Children), previously Cared for and those with a social worker. He’s worked here since 2015, before which he was VHT for Staffordshire. He has worked for the National Strategies’ ‘Narrowing the Gap’ team and led Manchester’s vulnerable and mobile children team. He is a secondary English teacher by training and has worked extensively with marginalised and vulnerable children, including Gypsy Roma Traveller children and as a teacher for the Roberts’ Bros. Super Circus school.