The education of children & young people in public care team

This team is part of Access and Inclusion and is a partnership between Education and Social Services to monitor and raise the achievements of children in public care.

The team offers advice and training to ‘corporate parents’ so they are better able to support children in public care. ‘Corporate parents’ are the many different people who have a responsibility for supporting these children; social workers, foster carers, residential care workers, early years staff, teachers, school governors, council members and officers of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

What we do

• Promote good corporate parenting
• Raise the profile of Children & Young People in Public Care through awareness training
• Offer training, advice and guidance to social workers, schools, residential staff and foster carers on all matters related to the educational achievement and inclusion of Children & Young People in Public Care
• Monitor and report on the educational progress of all LBTH Children & Young People in Public Care
• Support social workers and schools with Personal Education Planning
• Establish contact and visit schools in and out of the borough with a view to supporting them in effective target setting
• Attend Annual Reviews for children in care
• Liaise with Early Years Providers
• Liaise with Leaving Care Service
• Referral on to appropriate agencies where further assessment or specialist support is required.

Who we are

Name: Anita Harrington
Title: Advisory Teacher/Teenage Pregnancy Integration Officer
Tel: 020 7364 6462

Name: Janeta Guarnieri
Title: Advisory Teacher
Tel: 020 7364 6304

Name: Lorna Tiffen
Title: Senior Social Worker
Tel: 020 7364 6459

Name: Charlie Buckley
Title: Education Social Worker
Tel: 020 7364 6479

Name: Jo Jones
Title: Admin Officer
Tel: 020 7364 6304

E-mail: childrensservices@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Related services

We work co-operatively with the Social Services Department. Please see Children and Families section on the LBTH Social Services web page.

Further information

We are part of a national network of people who are all working on raising the educational achievement of children and young people in public care. We are part of the South East Network. For more information about this you may contact:

Maggie Taylor
Education Co-ordinator
London South-East Network (DfES Education Projects)
Brent Looked After Children Education Team
Brent House Annexe
356-358 High Road
Wembley
HA9 6BX
Tel: 020 8937 4907
E-mail: Maggie.Taylor@Brent.gov.uk

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