FAO all Primary and Secondary Schools

The CME statutory guidance (external link) published in September 2016 sets out key principles to enable local authorities in England to implement their legal duty under section 436Aof the Education Act 1996 to make arrangements to identify, as far as it is possible to do so, children missing education (CME).

Like many of our neighbouring authorities, Haringey has devised a new protocol to ensure that we are fulfilling our statutory duty and safeguarding responsibility to all children known to us. I would be grateful if you could please take 5 minutes to read the attached protocol (external link) .

I would like to thank all schools who participated in the roll return pilot we rolled out a few weeks ago. This is now being rolled out to all Haringey maintained and independent schools following the half term break in the week commencing 5 June 2017. All schools who did not participate in the pilot will be sent the new roll return via email by the end of this week.

As well as the critical safeguarding imperative of ensuring that children are appropriately tracked and monitored and referrals sent to the appropriate service, the purpose of the new roll return is to ensure that we keep up to date figures on the availability of school places in the local area. This enables us to advise parents of pupils moving into the area or wishing to transfer schools of the number of vacancies in the relevant year group.

Please do not hesistate to contact me if you have any queries

Kind regards

Carlo Kodsi, Team Leader School Admissions