The Pocket Guide to Every Child Matters
An At-a-Glance Overview for the Busy Teacher
- 102 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
The aim of this pocket guide is to provide an at-a-glance overview and insight into Every Child Matters for busy trainee, newly qualified and experienced teachers, working with pupils in a range of educational settings, who want a quick point of reference in order to know how:
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- the concept, aims and principles of Every Child Matters influences their practice
- to develop a shared vision and ethos for Every Child Matters
- Every Child Matters policy informs practice
- to develop effective teamwork and collaborative partnership working
- to embed Every Child Matters outcomes in personalised learning
- to monitor and evaluate the impact of Every Child Matters at classroom level.
Pocket Guide to Every Child Matters is an invaluable, good value, user-friendly resource for all busy Children's Workforce practitioners, working directly with pupils in classrooms, offers practical tips and guidance, effective strategies, models of good practice and signposting to further sources of information. It features step-by-step advice, useful checklists and templates which can be customised to suit the context of a range of primary and secondary phase educational settings.
Frequently asked questions
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What is Every Child Matters about?
- the concept, principles and aims of Every Child Matters;
- the opportunities and challenges that Every Child Matters offers;
- recent research findings on how schools are implementing the ECM agenda.
The concept of Every Child Matters
The principles of Every Child Matters
- Children and young people to fulfil their optimum potential.
- Early intervention and prevention through improved service provision.
- Safeguarding and protecting children from harm, neglect and poverty.
- A well-trained, skilled, knowledgeable and flexible children’s workforce.
- Improving information sharing between agencies.
- Better-coordinated joined-up integrated front-line services.
- Greater accountability – impact of provision on outcomes for children and young people.
- Children to voice their views and inform decision making in relation to personalised services and personalised learning.
- Safer communities providing recreational and voluntary activities for children and young people to participate in.
- Improved access to advice, information and services for parents, carers and families on positive parenting, family learning, childcare, adoption and fostering.
The aims of Every Child Matters
- be healthy: enjoying good physical and mental health and having a healthy lifestyle.
- be safe: being protected from harm and abuse.
- enjoy and achieve: getting the most out of life and developing the skills for adulthood.
- make a positive contribution: being involved with the community and society and not engaging in anti-social or offending behaviour.
- achieve economic well-being: not being prevented by economic disadvantage from achieving their full potential in life.
The opportunities and challenges of Every Child Matters
- meeting the needs of the whole child: their well-being and learning;
- teaching pupils how to learn and acquire the tools for learning;
- teaching pupils how to look after and improve their well-being;
- promoting emotional intelligence in the classroom and whole school;
- enabling pupils to develop into responsible citizens;
- promoting and supporting pupil voice;
- encouraging pupil self-review and assessment of their own learning and well-being;
- personalising learning and tailoring teaching to meet the needs of pupils;
- improving pupils’ access to learning by the use of ICT and multimedia technology;
- signposting pupils to appropriate personalised services and extended school activities;
- increasing collaborative working with a range of multi-agency practitioners to share information, knowledge, skills and expertise;
- workforce remodelling which offers new roles to some staff, e.g. Director/Manager for ECM; Lead Professional for Personalised Learning; Lead Professional for Pupil Well-being; Coordinator for Multi-agency working.
- an increased focus on the impact of teaching, additional provision and interventions on improving pupils’ ECM outcomes.
- a greater commitment to parents/carers and pupils’ empowerment and rights;
- increased partnership working with a wider range of external practitioners;
- knowing and understanding the different roles and responsibilities of external practitioners and partners;
- having sufficient time to implement and embed Every Child Matters in everyday practice;
- promoting greater community participation and cohesion;
- understanding of and familiarisation with ECM processes and procedures, e.g. Common Assessment Framework, National Service Framework, Team Around the Child, ContactPoint;
- ensuring effective two-way communication between school staff and external practitioners working directly with pupils in school;
- managing competing priorities, strategies and initiatives within the same amount of time.
Recent research on how schools are implementing Every Child Matters
- Sufficient well-trained, high-quality front-line practitioners from services and agencies to respond effectively to the ECM agenda in order to deliver preventative interventions.
- Greater opportunities for more inter-professional learning, training and development between school staff and multi-agency practitioners in order to improve integrated working.
- Inter-professional training in using inter-agency frameworks and protocols, e.g. National Service Framework (NSF), common Assessment Framework (cAF), contactPoint, Team Around the child (TAc).
- Clearer and improved information for schools on where to refer children and who to seek specific expertise from.
- More up-to-date information about voluntary sector provision available.
- More information and a clearer understanding about the expertise, role, procedures and processes of children’s services and agencies working with schools.
- More information about the role of the local authority Children’s Trusts.
- Greater sharing of exemplification of good practice in how to implement ECM and develop effective multi-agency partnership working in educational settings.
- More support needed in monitoring and evaluating the impact of additional provision and interventions on improving ECM outcomes.
- Greater clarity of purpose in connection with other agencies.
- Schools establishing and consolidating links with partners and other agencies.
- Schools creating a shared vision, purpose, goals with other agencies.
- A common understanding of the professional language used across different multi-professional disciplines.
- Schools establishing a clear line of communication, accountability and decision making with other agencies.
- Greater involvement of outside agencies on the school’s leadership team.
- Whole school staff training on strategies for fostering multi-agency ways of working together.
- Shared evaluative feedback existing between schools and multi-agencies for ECM.
- A clear understanding of the respective roles and responsibilities of partners and agencies involved in improving ECM outcomes.
- Sufficient local authority support to secure multi-agency inputs for schools.
- Designated staff in schools with sufficient time to coordinate multi-agency partnerships fo...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 What is Every Child Matters about?
- 2 Developing a vision and values for Every Child Matters
- 3 Implementing Every Child Matters in the classroom
- 4 Monitoring and evaluating the Every Child Matters outcomes
- 5 The Every Child Matters team in schools and other education settings
- Every Child Matters Jargon Buster
- Useful websites
- References and further reading