HEADS UP

Educational Visit Support

In preparation for when schools are able to return to Educational Visits there is some information we wanted to share with you.   Please note the latest government advice as at 22 February 2021 remains unchanged.  ‘They advise against all educational visits at this time. This advice will be kept under review’. 

New Warwickshire County Council Educational Visits Policy

Whilst there aren’t any significant changes, we would suggest familiarising yourself with the new policy before undertaking your next educational visit.   It is worth noting that the new policy reflects the updated school emergency planning guidance from the CSW Resilience Team.  As you should already be aware the updated documents encourage schools to use the resources released by the Department for Education, along with updated local guidance and templates produced by the CSW Resilience Team.  CSW Resilience Team will no longer support and update the EASEE package.

Training requirements

All EVC’s should be formally trained with update training every 3 years.

EVC’s should provide Visit Leaders with annual training (formal or informal).

Visit leader training can be in-house led by the EVC or by the Educational Visits Adviser. The M-learning Visit Leader Training module is directly available to our Juniper Education Schools. For this, any CPD Visits Training should be logged on the staff ‘profile’ on your EVOLVE system  (Access for all WCC Maintained and subscribed VA and non-maintained schools)  We are currently offering on-line modules and webinar meeting training due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Our EVOLVE partners are offering free training on EVOLVE for all our maintained and subscribed schools on Thursday 3th. March : - For details and to register for the 09:30 session, please click here   - To register for the 16:00 session, please click here

Of course, while you are booking your EVOLVE webinar, please feel free to book any, or all, of our other webinars.  They are suitable for both existing users and those looking to add new skills to their EVOLVE repertoire.

If you would like to take advantage of these webinars, please click HERE to select the session that would suit you.  

School Educational Visits Policy

There is an expectation that all Warwickshire maintained schools have their latest school visits policy uploaded onto the EVOLVE system.  Please can we ask that schools check that their latest policy is available and upload it where applicable.  An Exemplar 2021 School Visits Policy can be found HERE

You can upload the updated policy by deleting the exiting policy and then adding the new one – or if no current policy uploaded, then just add a new policy – for help on how to do this Log onto EVOLVE and  go to the Help Centre - click HERE (EVC / Head Starter guide – Chapter 17 )

Contact details held on Evolve

To ensure that you do not hold information on EVOLVE contrary to GDPR requirements please can we ask that you update EVOLVE with your current Educational Visits Coordinator (EVC)  and Office / Finance support contact.  This also helps enable us to communicate with the correct school contact. Emails reminders have also recently been sent out in relation to this.

If you do not currently subscribe to this service, are a non-maintained school and are interested in our support service to ensure you meet your statutory requirements please contact: educational.visits@junipereducation.org or look at the Useful links for more details.  https://junipereducation.org/educational-visits/ 

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