Welcome colleagues to another edition of Heads Up. 
Last week, the Spring Term Headteacher Conference took place and we've received some very positive feedback from colleagues. Thanks to Abi Huggins, Kate Worthington, Conrad Bourne, Julie Miles and Amy Hawkes for their contributions. It's always great to have school colleagues presenting as well as taking part.
The next Head Teachers Conference is planned to be face-to-face so I do hope you will be able to attend this in person.
In other news:
Update on the Household Support Fund administered by Warwickshire’s Local Welfare Scheme:
Through the Household Support Fund, the Local Welfare Scheme will once again be distributing automatic support towards fuel and food costs to parents/carers of children in Warwickshire schools/settings who are eligible for benefits related FSM
They will be receiving the following in the form of automatic voucher payments:
- From Friday 25th March, an automatic PayPoint cash voucher will be issued to each eligible household to the value of £60 to be used towards energy costs.
- For the Easter school holiday, an automatic Huggg supermarket voucher will be issued to parents/carers to the value of £42 per eligible child for 14 days inclusive of the weekend (11th to 22nd April)
- We will follow the same process as previously and will send out letters to you next week to share with parents/carers.
- We can confirm that we will not need schools to send in updated pupil data. If you do have any queries, please email the Local Welfare Scheme Mailbox at localwelfarescheme@warwickshire.gov.uk
Best wishes
Chris Baird
Interim Assistant Director for Education Services.