April 2008 Meeting of the South Wales Children's Rights Practice Exchange Group- CIW

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April 2008 Meeting of the South Wales Children's Rights Practice Exchange Group

April 2008

School Exclusions: Official and Unofficial - Peter Hosking, Policy Officer at the Children’s Commissioner for Wales Office delivered a presentation discussing school exclusion.
Review - The Children’s Commissioners Office has also published a ‘Report following investigation into unofficial school exclusions’ which can be downloaded from the Children’s Commissioner’s website.

Comments: The presentation encouraged some debate and raised issues and concerns within this area. Comments recorded on the day include:

Do Looked After Children know they have a designated teacher? Do the teachers, social workers know this? Is this a bureaucratic role or a role the child can go to for help?
When children are excluded, why can’t services such as Social Inclusion claim the money designated to that child to support that child after the 15 days?

Evaluation: The practice exchange was well received with positive feedback from all 24 participants, a synopsis of which can be viewed here

3. Networking: Attendees completed an Information Exchange Sheet that asked them to share ‘What they were upto at the moment?’ and ‘What do you need?’ with contact details. These were available for sharing on the day and have since been written up and can be viewed here: The purpose of this is to follow up after the meeting with anyone who you may feel can help you with a piece of work or vice versa.

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