Targeted Support Team
A tailor made support service for vulnerable/at risk full time students who are aged 19 and below
Targeted Support Groups
- Looked After Children
- Living independently
- Young parents
- Pregnant
- Attendance Issues
- Youth Offending Team
- Advocacy/disciplinary
We take referrals from:
- Safeguarding
- Self
- Welfare Team
- Children's Services
- Tutors
- Counselling
- Specialist Education Providers
- Parents
- Learning Support
How Targeted Support will help
- Members of the team are all Safeguarding and Common Assessment Framework (CAF) trained
- Provide links to other services
- Work closely with partner agencies
- Keep regular contact with students
- Aid retention and attendance
- Aid social well being
- Sort out problems
Examples of support
- Attend CAF meetings
- Attend Looked After Review meetings
- Mediation between student & parent, parent & tutor or even tutor & student
- Help to make phone calls and give access to the phone to arrange important meetings
- Lunch vouchers
- Food parcels
- Encouragement to quit smoking, access Time 4U and sporting opportunities
- Cards sent for birthdays, new home, good luck for exams and new baby
- Reminder text messages for appointments, meetings, timetables etc
- Represent student at disciplinary
Specialist Education Providers
Early identification of the student can really help before they start college, they can be supported right from the start of term. Introductions can be made to the department, the student can be shown around and welfare services can be introduced.
Your contacts are:
For Service Industries
Kate Gordon
Tel - 01527 572659
Mobile - 07983931623
Email - kgordon@ne-worcs.ac.uk
For Service Industries & Sixth Form Centre Redditch
Jo Gill-Smith
Tel: 01527 572657
Mobile: 07958958981
Email: jgillsmith@ne-worcs.ac.uk
For Bromsgrove Campus
Barry Smith
Tel: 01527 572953
Email: bsmith@ne-worcs.ac.uk
For Alliance House
Tracey Gollop
Tel: 01527 405452
Mobile: 07538963567
Email: tgollop@ne-worcs.ac.uk
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