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Maximising Resources and Minimising Costs: Welfare Call’s Crucial Role in Supporting Local Authorities

In an era of tightening budgets and increasing demands, local authorities are facing unprecedented challenges in delivering essential services and meeting and exceeding their statutory obligations, particularly for vulnerable children and young people. The struggle to balance budgets while ensuring… Read more

Posted by on 1st May 2024

Empowering Every Child: Welfare Call’s Commitment to SEND

When it comes to child welfare and education, ensuring that every child’s unique needs are met is crucial. Not only are local authorities responsible for maintaining a clear, accessible local offer of services to support children and young people with… Read more

Posted by on 2nd January 2024

Bridging the Gap: Welfare Call’s Impact on Education Equality

The pursuit of education equality is a huge challenge for councillors and policymakers. Tackling issues such as the educational attainment gap and child poverty demands innovative solutions that go beyond traditional approaches; it needs a comprehensive, multi-faceted approach.   Welfare… Read more

Posted by on 23rd October 2023

Unifying Services for Better Care: How Welfare Call Leads the Way

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In the ever-evolving landscape of health, social care, and education, effective coordination and collaboration are crucial for ensuring the well-being of vulnerable children and young people. Welfare Call stands at the forefront, playing a key role in unifying services to… Read more

Posted by on 23rd September 2023

Why work for Welfare Call?

Our people are our greatest asset. Help us build our story and be part of something special.   What we do Here at The Welfare Call Group, we provide solutions and services to over 100 Local Authorities and organisations throughout… Read more

Posted by on 23rd August 2023

Empowering Communities and Protecting Vulnerable Individuals: Welfare Call’s Role in Safeguarding

Ensuring the safety and well-being of children and young people is a paramount concern to local authorities. The prevalence of issues related to child abuse, neglect, and exploitation demands a robust and comprehensive approach, and Welfare Call stands at the… Read more

Posted by on 23rd August 2023

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    Fay Blyth, Virtual School Headteacher for Waltham Forest

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    Senior managers feel that the analytics is impressive and are keen to have as many dashboards as possible to show Ofsted for our annual conversation.… Read more

     

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    Helen Bushell, (Previous) Head of Virtual School for Rutland

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    I’m a bit giddy, I love the ePEP dashboards – How clever are you lot! Gosh I love this system.… Read more

     

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    Michaela Blair, PEP Co-ordinator for Oldham

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    I like the dashboards. They are very clear. I also like the jump-to’s and the ability to drill down to individual young people. On the whole really happy. I am looking forward to other attainment-based dashboards – especially one that… Read more

     

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    Calvin Kipling, Virtual School Headteacher for Darlington

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    I’m absolutely loving Analytics and the updates coming through are very helpful.… Read more

     

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    Nickie West-Jarrett, Attendance and Inclusion Officer for Lewisham Virtual School

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    We have worked with Welfare Call for over 3 years, it has transformed the way we work in terms of the way we have been able to utilise our resources and deploying staff differently as they are able to proactively… Read more

     

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    Graeme Ferguson, Virtual School Head, Derby City Council

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    Children in care have positive education experiences. In school, children in care have good attendance and behaviour. Permanent and fixed exclusions for pupils who are in care are low. The virtual school provides good support for schools to produce increasingly… Read more

     

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    London Borough of Merton – Children’s Services Inspection

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    Electronic personal education plans are detailed, focus on the key areas, and include pupil targets and the pupils’ perspectives. A range of extra-curricular activities are available to support and enrich the lives of children in care. The virtual school carefully… Read more

     

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    Rutland County Council – Children’s Services Inspection

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    The virtual school has a clear sense of purpose and direction and makes good use of performance data to target its activity to best effect. As a result, its influence and impact continue to grow. Ninety-six per cent of children… Read more

     

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    London Borough of Harrow – Children’s Services Inspection

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    The rate of children’s attendance at school is rising. Relationships between the virtual school and designated teachers are strong. The personal education plan (PEP) process is well established and comprehensive. Children are making good educational progress.… Read more

     

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    Bedford Borough Council – Children’s Services Focused Visit

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    The virtual school systematically monitors and evaluates the quality of personal education plans (PEPs), and, as a result, the quality of plans is improving. All PEPs have a clear focus on academic progress.… Read more

     

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    Cornwall Council – Children’s Services Inspection

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    Personal education plans (PEPs) provide a sound basis to plan and review the progress children make. Children in care receive effective support from the virtual school staff, who understand their individual needs and act as effective advocates for them. This… Read more

     

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    Swindon Borough Council – Children’s Services Inspection

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    The virtual school provides effective support for the progress and attainment of children in care. The virtual school team has a sound understanding of the progress that children are making. As a result of effective support, many make good progress… Read more

     

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    Worcestershire County Council – Children’s Services Inspection

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    Children and young people make good educational progress in care. Those who do not attend school have prompt access to suitable, good-quality registered alternative provision. Children’s progress is closely reviewed through personal education plans which have well-written targets, and this… Read more

     

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    London Borough of Tower Hamlets – Children’s Services Inspection

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    Welfare Call provides a highly professional and cost competitive service that has enhanced our ability to collect progression and impact information for the majority of learners attending our courses. Welfare Call has made this mammoth task into a much easier… Read more

     

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    Mobin Chothia, Service Development Officer, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

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    The role of the Virtual School Head continues to remain a challenging one where the dynamics are as varied as each individual that we work with. Given increasingly limited resources of Local Authorities, it’s also vital that investments are made… Read more

     

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    Kashif Nawaz, Virtual School Head, Bracknell Forest

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    The strong emphasis on ensuring that PEPs are of good quality and completed in a timely way is contributing well to children’s progress.… Read more

     

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    London Borough of Barnet – Children’s Services Inspection

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    Education is actively promoted for children in care and the virtual school is increasingly effective in ensuring that children make good progress and reach their potential. The quality and timeliness of personal education plans have improved significantly. Children benefit from… Read more

     

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    London Borough of Enfield – Children’s Services Inspection

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    Our PEPs are much better quality and are completed on time. Welfare Calls ePEP system has been a massive help towards this. There are a number of Ofsted quotes which are looking slightly dated (given they are from 2017) therefore… Read more

     

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    Kate Harm, Specialist Education Officer for Children in Care, Derby Virtual School

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    We have been using the Welfare Call ePEP for a number of years having previously had a paper based PEP. Over this period we have seen: our timely completion rates for the ePEP improve from 85% to 95% an improved… Read more

     

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    Graeme Ferguson, Virtual School Head, Derby City Council