18th June 2025

Dear Colleagues,

This bulletin is for all settings that educate Hillingdon children; maintained, academies and independent.

Please forward this email to the leads in your settings or team members who might be interested in the content, so they can follow up the relevant offers. Thank you in advance.

Reminders:
All schools and settings should attend EYES Portal Establishment Training. Please see EYES - Leap for full details and links to join the sessions	on 23/06/25 or 26/06/25
Hillingdon LEAP can be accessed for information and guidance for all settings	Ongoing
Education Services contacts can be found here	Ongoing
Schools' Forum meeting papers can be accessed here	Ongoing
Emergency closures of all schools must be reported to education@hillingdon.gov.uk	Ongoing
Notification of Critical Incident can be found here	Ongoing
HLP Course Booking	Ongoing

For All Schools & Settings:
Head Teachers' Termly Thank you to those who attended the meeting last week. Slides used during the session were: LADO slides HTT June 25 (PDF, 465 KB) PH Slides 10.06.25 (PDF, 1 MB) Additional Message re Immunisations: For your Year 7 induction evenings, we could arrange a couple of nurses talk about different vaccines and give parents the relevant information. If you are happy for us to do that, please email me on gemini.shah@vaccinationuk.co.uk with the dates. AfA Update May2025 (PDF, 298 KB) WEPA SEND Slides (PDF, 2 MB) & WEPA SEND Presentation Notes (PDF, 62 KB) Incident Reporting & Investigations and H&S Anomalies (PDF, 644 KB) JTIA June 2025 (PDF, 302 KB) Dates of meetings for next year are: HTT Autumn 2025 - 11 November 9.30 - 11.30 am online HTT Spring 2026 - 10 March 9.30 - 11.30 am online HTT Summer 2026 - 9^th June 9.30 - 11.30 am online Agenda with links to join the sessions will be shared nearer the time. Headteachers or their deputies of all schools should attend.
Draft Educational Neglect Policy Consultation Please see linked a draft educational neglect policy developed by Hillingdon Virtual School with the intention of raising awareness of and consistency in response to educational neglect across the borough. DRAFT Educational Neglect Policy for Consultation.docx We welcome your feedback, comments, or suggestions within this consultation period which will end on 4 July 2025. Please can all feedback be shared prior to this date with Chloe Rock, Project Manager for Children with a Social Worker, via crock@hillingdon.gov.uk. Thank you in advance for your responses and we will be in touch when the policy is live.
Education Appeals As the admission authority for community schools within Hillingdon, Democratic Services are looking for headteachers and governors to recruit as new members for the School Admission Appeals Panels. Each year, as school places are confirmed, a number of appeals are received from parents/guardians who wish to appeal against a decision not to admit a child to their preferred school; these appeals are subsequently considered and determined at a School Admission Appeals Hearing held at the Civic Centre. To hold a School Admission Appeals Hearing, 3 members are required to sit on the Appeals Panel. Each Panel must comprise at least one member from each of the following categories: Lay members - those without personal experience in the management of or provision of education in any school (a lay member can also be, or has been, a school governor or someone who has worked or works in a school as a volunteer) Experienced members - those with experience in education; this includes teachers / teaching assistants, ex-teachers / ex-teaching assistants, individuals acquainted with educational conditions, or parents of a registered pupil at a different school. Full initial training will be provided with refresher training at regular intervals (currently every two years) to ensure everyone is kept up to date with changes to admissions law and the codes. Members can choose to serve on a panel as few or as many times as they wish throughout the year. A database of trained members is maintained, and contact will be made to check availability. Some panel members undertake extra training to sit on panels for Exclusion Independent Review Panels (IRP), which are rare in Hillingdon. If you would like to be trained and considered for an IRP panel, let us know. To register your interest or find out more, please contact Democratic Services at educationappeals@hillingdon.gov.uk or phone 01895 250636.
Hillingdon Safeguarding Partnership Training - June and July 2025 The Safeguarding Partnership training courses scheduled in June and July 2025 currently have availability. Please book your place via logging into your Learning Zone account. Please click here to make your bookings. If a new learning zone account is required, please use this link and select Create New Account on the homepage detailing Safeguarding Partnership Training as reason for new account set up. The Late Cancellation Policy now applies to all courses available via the Safeguarding Partnership. Please accept the terms and conditions each time, to enable your booking to take place. 20 June 2025 Course: Adult Exploitation and Cuckooing Webinar - Introducing the Exploitation Checklist and Cuckooing Protocol (NEW COURSE) 23 June 2025 Course: Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse 2025-26 (NEW COURSE) 25 June 2025 Course: Female Genital Mutilation - Multi Agency Awareness Raising Workshop 2025/26 30 June 2025 Course: Child Sexual Abuse in the context of Child Sexual Exploitation 2025/26 1 July 2025 Course: Traffic Light Tool Sexual Behaviours Training 2025 8 July 2025 Course: Civil Orders for Sexual and Violent Offending 2025 10 July 2025 Course: Self-Neglect and Hoarding 2025/26 10 July 2025 Course: Child Sexual Abuse and Disability: understanding the risks and the professional role 2025/26 11 July 2025 Course: Domestic Abuse in Children and Young Peoples' Relationships 15 July 2025 Course: Safeguarding Disabled Children 2025-26 23 July 2025 Course: Contextual Safeguarding - Multi-agency Awareness Raising Workshop 2025/26 24 July 2025 Course: Walking in our Shoes Training 2025 Date TBC: Course: Honour Based Violence 2025/26 Please direct any queries to safeguardingpartnership@hillingdon.gov.uk
MOPAC Teacher Toolkit Tender, is continuing to work with MOPAC to deliver further free Teacher Toolkit sessions to Secondary and Primary teachers and governors across London boroughs. These sessions aim to: Introduce teachers and governors to key concepts and exercises within the 'Preparing for Healthy Relationships Teacher Toolkit' (developed for primary schools) and the 'Ending Gender-Based Violence in Young People's Relationships Teacher Toolkit' (developed for secondary schools.) Increase teachers' confidence in having discussions with children and young people around gender-based violence, relationships, gender equality and their rights and responsibilities. Improve teachers' skills in facilitating these conversations with children and young people. The Secondary and Primary Teacher Toolkit resources are available through this link: https://tender.org.uk/our-services/training/toolkit-training/ We are delivering the Teacher Toolkit with MOPAC as part of the London Mayor's Office's £1 million pledge to support educators to address Gender-Based Violence. Between March 2023 and March 2025, we delivered free online training sessions to over 900 educational professionals in more than 600 settings across London boroughs. Our next wave of Toolkit Training sessions will be delivered online for free to educational professionals in London on the following dates: Secondary Teachers - Increasing Awareness of Gender-Based Violence: 23^rd September 2025, 4.15 to 5.15 pm. Register HERE Primary Teachers - Talking to Children and Young People About Relationships and Gender Equality: 1^st October 2025, 4.15 to 5.15 pm. Register HERE School Governors - Introduction to the Ending Gender-Based Violence Toolkit: 20^th November 2025, 5.30 to 6.30 pm. Register HERE Primary Teachers - Talking to Children and Young People About Relationships and Gender Equality: 5^th March 2026, 4.15 to 5.15 pm (this session will also be open to any staff who are unable to attend the other Secondary and Governor specific sessions). Register at: HERE

For All Schools & Settings:

Head Teachers' Termly

Thank you to those who attended the meeting last week. Slides used during the session were:

LADO slides HTT June 25 (PDF, 465 KB)

PH Slides 10.06.25 (PDF, 1 MB)

Additional Message re Immunisations: For your Year 7 induction evenings, we could arrange a couple of nurses talk about different vaccines and give parents the relevant information. If you are happy for us to do that, please email me on gemini.shah@vaccinationuk.co.uk with the dates.

AfA Update May2025 (PDF, 298 KB)

WEPA SEND Slides (PDF, 2 MB) & WEPA SEND Presentation Notes (PDF, 62 KB)

Incident Reporting & Investigations and H&S Anomalies (PDF, 644 KB)

JTIA June 2025 (PDF, 302 KB)

Dates of meetings for next year are:

HTT Autumn 2025 - 11 November 9.30 - 11.30 am online

HTT Spring 2026 - 10 March 9.30 - 11.30 am online

HTT Summer 2026 - 9^th June 9.30 - 11.30 am online

Agenda with links to join the sessions will be shared nearer the time. Headteachers or their deputies of all schools should attend.

Draft Educational Neglect Policy Consultation

Please see linked a draft educational neglect policy developed by Hillingdon Virtual School with the intention of raising awareness of and consistency in response to educational neglect across the borough.

DRAFT Educational Neglect Policy for Consultation.docx

We welcome your feedback, comments, or suggestions within this consultation period which will end on 4 July 2025. Please can all feedback be shared prior to this date with Chloe Rock, Project Manager for Children with a Social Worker, via crock@hillingdon.gov.uk.

Thank you in advance for your responses and we will be in touch when the policy is live.

Education Appeals

As the admission authority for community schools within Hillingdon, Democratic Services are looking for headteachers and governors to recruit as new members for the School Admission Appeals Panels.

Each year, as school places are confirmed, a number of appeals are received from parents/guardians who wish to appeal against a decision not to admit a child to their preferred school; these appeals are subsequently considered and determined at a School Admission Appeals Hearing held at the Civic Centre. To hold a School Admission Appeals Hearing, 3 members are required to sit on the Appeals Panel. Each Panel must comprise at least one member from each of the following categories:

Lay members - those without personal experience in the management of or provision of education in any school (a lay member can also be, or has been, a school governor or someone who has worked or works in a school as a volunteer)
Experienced members - those with experience in education; this includes teachers / teaching assistants, ex-teachers / ex-teaching assistants, individuals acquainted with educational conditions, or parents of a registered pupil at a different school.

Full initial training will be provided with refresher training at regular intervals (currently every two years) to ensure everyone is kept up to date with changes to admissions law and the codes.

Members can choose to serve on a panel as few or as many times as they wish throughout the year. A database of trained members is maintained, and contact will be made to check availability. Some panel members undertake extra training to sit on panels for Exclusion Independent Review Panels (IRP), which are rare in Hillingdon. If you would like to be trained and considered for an IRP panel, let us know.

To register your interest or find out more, please contact Democratic Services at educationappeals@hillingdon.gov.uk or phone 01895 250636.

Hillingdon Safeguarding Partnership Training - June and July 2025

The Safeguarding Partnership training courses scheduled in June and July 2025 currently have availability.

Please book your place via logging into your Learning Zone account. Please click here to make your bookings. If a new learning zone account is required, please use this link and select Create New Account on the homepage detailing Safeguarding Partnership Training as reason for new account set up.

The Late Cancellation Policy now applies to all courses available via the Safeguarding Partnership. Please accept the terms and conditions each time, to enable your booking to take place.

20 June 2025 Course: Adult Exploitation and Cuckooing Webinar - Introducing the Exploitation Checklist and Cuckooing Protocol (NEW COURSE)

23 June 2025 Course: Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse 2025-26 (NEW COURSE)

25 June 2025 Course: Female Genital Mutilation - Multi Agency Awareness Raising Workshop 2025/26

30 June 2025 Course: Child Sexual Abuse in the context of Child Sexual Exploitation 2025/26

1 July 2025 Course: Traffic Light Tool Sexual Behaviours Training 2025

8 July 2025 Course: Civil Orders for Sexual and Violent Offending 2025

10 July 2025 Course: Self-Neglect and Hoarding 2025/26

10 July 2025 Course: Child Sexual Abuse and Disability: understanding the risks and the professional role 2025/26

11 July 2025 Course: Domestic Abuse in Children and Young Peoples' Relationships

15 July 2025 Course: Safeguarding Disabled Children 2025-26

23 July 2025 Course: Contextual Safeguarding - Multi-agency Awareness Raising Workshop 2025/26

24 July 2025 Course: Walking in our Shoes Training 2025

Date TBC: Course: Honour Based Violence 2025/26

Please direct any queries to safeguardingpartnership@hillingdon.gov.uk

MOPAC Teacher Toolkit

Tender, is continuing to work with MOPAC to deliver further free Teacher Toolkit sessions to Secondary and Primary teachers and governors across London boroughs. These sessions aim to:

Introduce teachers and governors to key concepts and exercises within the 'Preparing for Healthy Relationships Teacher Toolkit' (developed for primary schools) and the 'Ending Gender-Based Violence in Young People's Relationships Teacher Toolkit' (developed for secondary schools.)
Increase teachers' confidence in having discussions with children and young people around gender-based violence, relationships, gender equality and their rights and responsibilities.
Improve teachers' skills in facilitating these conversations with children and young people.

The Secondary and Primary Teacher Toolkit resources are available through this link: https://tender.org.uk/our-services/training/toolkit-training/

We are delivering the Teacher Toolkit with MOPAC as part of the London Mayor's Office's £1 million pledge to support educators to address Gender-Based Violence. Between March 2023 and March 2025, we delivered free online training sessions to over 900 educational professionals in more than 600 settings across London boroughs.

Our next wave of Toolkit Training sessions will be delivered online for free to educational professionals in London on the following dates:

Secondary Teachers - Increasing Awareness of Gender-Based Violence: 23^rd September 2025, 4.15 to 5.15 pm. Register HERE

Primary Teachers - Talking to Children and Young People About Relationships and Gender Equality: 1^st October 2025, 4.15 to 5.15 pm. Register HERE

School Governors - Introduction to the Ending Gender-Based Violence Toolkit: 20^th November 2025, 5.30 to 6.30 pm. Register HERE

Primary Teachers - Talking to Children and Young People About Relationships and Gender Equality: 5^th March 2026, 4.15 to 5.15 pm (this session will also be open to any staff who are unable to attend the other Secondary and Governor specific sessions). Register at: HERE

For Secondary Schools /FE:
Post 16 Update It was great to see a selection of Hillingdon schools at the Herts for Learning conference on Friday 6 June. At the conference we heard from Pupil Progress who have created a platform that tracks progress and helps drive results. If you are interested in hearing more from them, please email me at mpearson@hillingdon.gov.uk. I will create a partnership meeting for Brett (CEO) to discuss the platform/costs etc. In the meantime if you are a PiXL member school, you can gain access for free for English and Maths only. Please email brett@pupilprogress.com for more information.

For Secondary Schools /FE:

Post 16 Update

It was great to see a selection of Hillingdon schools at the Herts for Learning conference on Friday 6 June. At the conference we heard from Pupil Progress who have created a platform that tracks progress and helps drive results.

If you are interested in hearing more from them, please email me at mpearson@hillingdon.gov.uk. I will create a partnership meeting for Brett (CEO) to discuss the platform/costs etc.

In the meantime if you are a PiXL member school, you can gain access for free for English and Maths only. Please email brett@pupilprogress.com for more information.

Warm regards,

Abi Preston

Director of Education & SEND

Children's Services, London Borough of Hillingdon, Civic Centre, Uxbridge UB8 1UW