Support for education settings
Our Caring Schools Award celebrate schools, education settings and other providers which:
- encourage wellbeing
- nurture vulnerable children and young people
- help children and young people achieve their full potential
We have created a toolkit to help you assess how you work with children and young people to overcome barriers to learning. There are four sections, known as domains, and within each one, there are:
- measures of success
- theories or research
- examples of what this looks like in real life
The four domains are:
- Ethos and leadership
- A child-centred approach
- Working together with carers
- Working together with other settings and professionals
When home, education and other organisations work together to encourage and support aspiration and achievement, young people have a much higher chance of success. They are more likely to go on to achieve their academic goals and dreams for a successful future.
With the Caring Schools Award, we recognise and celebrate all the fantastic ways you do this. We will identify any training and development which can help you in your crucial role.
How to enter
To enter the Caring Schools Award, you can:
- join Caring2Learn
- work through the Caring Schools Toolkit
- build a portfolio
- attend workshops, training and support meetings
- describe and improve the way you work with or support vulnerable young people
We will ask you to collect evidence to submit for your portfolio. This can include:
- photographs
- certificates
- meetings and review notes
- other relevant documents
Education settings will work to a three-tier accreditation scheme of bronze, silver and gold awards.
Those who take part can use the reflection and progress record to:
- document current success stories
- provide evidence of the effects of their approach
- plan actions to develop their approach further with the Caring School domains and indicators
The Caring2Learn team and our education champions will support you throughout. They will help you complete the record and detail all the amazing things you do every day.
When you are ready to submit your portfolio, the Caring2Learn assessment team will look at your evidence and agree on your award.
To find out more, email caring2learn@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
Other vulnerable groups
We recognise that what works well for looked after children works well for all children. We encourage a whole school ethos around Caring2Learn principles.
To evidence these principles in your daily care of children shows that you are 'looked after ready'. You can evidence the effect on your children in school and may include other vulnerable groups of children, such as:
- team around the child
- child in need
- child protection
- adopted children
- young carers
Education champions
We have a team of foster carer and school-based education champions who:
- are carers and educational professionals from a variety of backgrounds
- encourage the education of vulnerable learners
- support other carers and education settings to encourage education better
The education champions can:
- advise about the Caring2Learn Awards
- support to carers around learning and working with schools
- support carers with education planning and reviewing needs
- work with carers and advise at meetings with schools or other organisations
To find out more, email caring2learn@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
