Ethnic Diversity Service - Valuing difference : promoting equality
The Traveller Education Service provides the additional support needed to ensure full inclusion for Traveller and mobile children in the education system.
Client groups include:
- English, Welsh & Scottish Romany Gypsies
- Travellers of Irish Heritage
- European Roma
- Occupational Travellers
- New Travellers
- Mobile children without school places
The aims of the service include:
- Fully integrating Traveller’s children into mainstream education
- Monitoring the attendance and attainment of Traveller pupils
- Ensuring that Traveller children receive their full entitlement to education
- Promoting knowledge and understanding of Traveller communities in all schools
- Helping to promote Stockport’s commitment to equality of opportunity
Objectives:
- To provide high quality educational support for those unable to attend schools or whose circumstances make it difficult to do so
- To support attendance, integration or reintegration into school or learning opportunity
- To provide additional educational support to enable vulnerable children to achieve their potential
Work:
- We provide advice on admissions and induction
- We work in partnership with schools to develop appropriate strategies for the inclusion of Traveller children
- We monitor and assess the achievement of Traveller pupils and work with schools to set targets
- We monitor attendance of travelling pupils
- We advise on and develop curriculum resources related to cultural diversity and offer in-service training
- We can work alongside staff in schools to provide specialist support for an agreed period of time
- We facilitate transfer of records and advise on distance learning materials
- We link with other agencies/departments to ensure education/welfare issues are met
- We encourage home/school liaison to promote a better understanding of needs and opportunities and to encourage regular patterns of attendance at school