Behaviour Support Plan: Good Practice

West Midlands Consortium Education Service for Travelling Children

Connection with the Behaviour Support Plan

The Service offers :

• Senior Field Welfare support
• Advisory/support teaching
• Culturally positive resources
• Record transfer to aid continuity of teaching
• Culture awareness training
• Differentiated learning materials
• Home/school liaison

Target group

• Highly mobile Gypsy/Irish Traveller children
• Showmens children
• Circus children
• Children on local authority/private sites
• Bargee children

Cost

The local authority belong to the Consortium which is part funded by DfEE and the 13 LEA’s within the West Midland Region.There is no additional cost to schools.

Access

Support can be accessed by contacting the Regional resource base on:

Coordinator:Pat Holmes

Senior Teacher: Trish McDonald

Advisory/Support Teacher:Tim Beevers

The Graiseley Centre,
Pool St,
Wolverhampton.
WV2 4NE

01902 714646

Telford and Wrekin LEA

86% of Gypsy/Traveller pupils from housed and local authority site accommodation attend mainstream schools.Those pupils not attending are currently on appeal for places in specific schools or are,in the case of secondary pupils,seeking home based education for cultural reasons.

Currently no roadside pupils are accessing education due to

• regular and frequent eviction
• parental reluctance

There is no national comparitive data available.A benchmarking group has recently been established by Traveller Education Support Services to undertake this work.WMCESTC are part of this group.

Additional Information

DfEE video  - Are we missing out? A video featuring four  Gypsy/Traveller families with children at secondary school.They talk about their experiences of education and their hopes for the future.

Internet

http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/intro.htm

www.ruralmedia.co.uk

www.cf.ac/claws/trlu/

Email Contacts

thegypsycouncil@btinternet.com

lgtu@breathemail.net