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Direct linkLeanne McIver; Michael Bettencourt – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The 'virtual school' is an approach to supporting care-experienced children and young people in education. The Virtual School Head (VSH) has been a statutory role within the education landscape in England since 2014. In Scotland, where the education, social care and legal systems are distinct from those in England, there has been a recent increase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Virtual Schools, Principals
Read, Stuart; Parfitt, Anne; Macer, Mel – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
In England, Pupil Premium Plus is additional funding to help address the educational attainment gap experienced by looked after children. This paper explores the experiences of virtual school heads and designated teachers (n = 140) as they access Pupil Premium Plus-related information, guidance and training to support their practice; navigate the…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Attainment
Greenwood, Leanne; Kelly, Catherine – Educational Action Research, 2020
This action research explores how to develop a sense of belonging during an atypical transition to a new school with a group of young people in state care and a group of adults from a small multi-disciplinary team working with schools to raise educational attainment of children in care. Appreciative inquiry was employed to gather participants'…
Descriptors: Student School Relationship, Student Mobility, Foster Care, Student Adjustment
Pickles, Jennifer; Parsons, Sarah; Kovshoff, Hanna – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
Autistic children comprise a large group of young people who are looked-after by their local authority and for whom educational outcomes are amongst the poorest of all children in care. Virtual School Heads (VSHs) in England have a statutory responsibility to improve the educational outcomes of children in care following the implementation of the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Virtual Schools, Foreign Countries
