Links

Central South Consortium Joint Education Service

http://www.cscjes.org.uk/Home.aspx?lang=en-gb

The Central South Consortium Joint Education Service will raise standards and build upon success though purposeful collaboration between Local Authorities, effective partnership with schools and a rigorous pursuit of excellence.

North Wales Consortium (GwE)

http://www.gwegogledd.cymru/

Wrexham, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Conwy, Gwynedd and Isle of Anglesey education authorities collaborate as the North Wales Consortium. It is an expression of the authorities’ wish to collaborate rather than a separate body.

Educational Achievement Service for South East Wales (EAS)

http://www.sewales.org.uk/

The five local authorities of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen have formed an Education Achievement Service (EAS) which is designed to raise education standards in South East Wales.

My Local School

http://mylocalschool.wales.gov.uk/index.html?iaith=eng

Welcome to My Local School, a website designed to open up access to schools data for parents and all others with an interest in their local school.

The site contains a wealth of data from contextual information, such as data on pupil numbers and characteristics, to school performance, attendance and data on staffing and finance.

Learning Wales

http://learning.wales.gov.uk/?skip=1&lang=en

Launched on 24 September in Beta, this is an evolving site where the content, layout and site navigation undergo final public testing.

There are currently three areas (*Literacy, Numeracy and Poverty*) available to view. Throughout the Beta period of the website, we will unveil new areas in a phased approach. The next three areas, Behaviour and attendance, Additional learning needs (ALN) and inclusion and Reflective practice and action enquiry will be published in November. Further areas will be published in January and May 2013.

Inspection Wales

http://www.inspectionwales.com/

We, Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW), Estyn (Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales), Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW), and the Wales Audit Office (WAO) are the four main inspection, audit and review bodies in Wales.

We are four independent, strong sectoral inspectorates with professional authority in our own fields. CSSIW, Estyn, HIW and WAO have made a strategic agreement between our organisations setting out the commitment to work closely together to encourage improvement in public services.

The Travel Code Website

http://www.travelcode.org/

The Travel Code has been in effect since January 2010. It is an integral part of the general behaviour policy of all schools and all learners must comply with it. There is responsibility on teachers, head teachers, local authorities and parents to promote awareness and understanding of the Code and to disseminate the message that following the Code could save lives.

BOG Standard

https://www.eric.org.uk/school-toilets

Bog Standard is a campaign to promote better toilets for pupils.
Our 3 aims are:

1. To increase awareness of the health benefits of better toilets for pupils
2. To encourage schools to improve the condition of pupils’ toilets and to allow pupils to use them when they need to
3. To get laws that will make pupils’ toilets nicer to use
   School toilets affect children’s physical and psychological health. Toilets which are unpleasant, or out of bounds, can cause serious, long-term health problems.

Schools' Portal

http://schoolportalwales.org.uk/

This portal has been designed to give schools and local authorities easy access to a range of useful sites and information from a single point of contact.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

DBS is an executive non-departmental public body of the Home Office.

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