Trafford Virtual School

Our mission is to build the bridge between education and social care with children at our heart. We bring people together as champions for education to value and empower all children and young people, believing in their potential to achieve amazing things and reach for the stars and beyond.

As a Virtual School we are responsible for promoting the education of Looked After Children, Previously Looked After Children and, since September 2021, Children in Need. To help you understand what we can offer these different groups of children and young people we have created the Virtual School Offer.

Looked After Children

• Daily attendance monitoring and follow-up as appropriate
• Support with termly
• Personal Education Plans and attendance at meetings as appropriate
• Oversight of Pupil Premium
• Grant funding
• Educational Psychology consultation and priority access to assessment as appropriate
• SALT consultation and priority access to assessment and intervention as appropriate
• Enhanced careers advice offer
• Access to educational opportunities such as university residential trips and work experience
• Enabling all children to access the right school at the right time

Previously Looked After Children and Children in Need

• Information, advice and guidance
• Consultation and Circle of Adults solution focussed meetings facilitated
• Attachment Training
• Model education plan and support to implement this
• Support to analyse data and set strategy