Frequently Asked Questions – 1st June

Dear Colleagues,
Please see FAQ updates for today:
• FSM – information on the monitoring of voucher orders, and information on planning for lunches in the wider opening of schools
• Resources – STEM Science remote science and computing lessons are now available and supported by facilitated live Q&A sessions throughout June. You can find more information and links to them here: Remote lessons for young people STEM

Updated government guidance:
• Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak Updated information about providing meals for pupils attending school, the national voucher scheme and providing meals or food parcels through your food provider
• Help children aged 2 to 4 to learn at home during coronavirus Covid 19 now contains a section on mental health and well-being for children who have not yet started school
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on isolation for residential educational settings – new guidance updates to support management of children and young people in residential educational settings, including boarding schools, residential special schools and children’s social care

Please also note that on Friday 29th May, the Secretary of State for Education issued a second notice to modify section 42 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (the duty to secure special educational provision and health care provision in accordance with an EHC plan). This notice will be relevant to:
• local authorities
• health commissioning bodies
• children and young people with EHC plans
• parents
• others involved in the EHC plan process
It will modify the duty on local authorities to secure or arrange special educational provision and on health commissioning bodies to arrange health provision in accordance with EHC plans, so that they can discharge this by using their ‘reasonable endeavours’. The new notice applies from 1 June 2020 to 30 June 2020. Modification notice: education health and care plans legislation changes – GOV.UK

We wish our primary colleagues well on the wider opening from today. Please do contact us if you have any additional FAQs through sis@buckinghamshire.gov.uk