| About
NT&AS
Formed in 1998, the NT&AS
is a national education service for Looked After Children and
Children In Need. The organisation provides a range of direct,
practical, strategic, training and consultancy services to Education
and Social Services Departments, Health Authorities and to the
independent child care sector. We are the only national organisation
which explains and meets the educational needs of Looked After
Children and children in need using a wholly inclusive approach.
If you work for an Education
Department, Social Service Department or other care or education
providers, and you want to:
- Improve your services
- Save money on your key budgets
- Meet your government targets
- Enhance the opportunities and outcomes
for children
we provide a number of services
that can enable these outcomes.
We work directly with children
themselves, the focus of which is to research, plan and support
mainstream school placements irrespective of children's circumstances
or the level of difficulties they may face in their lives.
NT&AS advocates that the
provision of high quality education casework significantly improves:
- the effectiveness and efficiency of the
social work system in helping, for example, to prevent placement
breakdowns within foster and residential care;
- the safety of children who need protection
and reduce the possibility of them drifting into homelessness,
unemployment, poverty and crime.
We are committed to working
in a child-centred, multi-disciplinary and anti-discriminatory
framework, in close partnership with professional colleagues throughout
the public care system, teachers in schools, children and their
parents and carers.
Our work also aims to heighten
opportunities for social inclusion through meeting the following
objectives:
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Improving attendance figures
- (performance league tables)
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Improving attainment levels
- (performance league tables)
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Reducing exclusion levels
in the primary and secondary sectors
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Increasing access to the National
Curriculum
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Ensuring consistency of support
to children and schools
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Promoting the educational interests
of Looked After Children and Children In Need
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Acknowledging in structural
and operational terms the centrality of education
issues within social work
Contact
us, and we can discuss how we can help you, your services
and the children for whom you are responsible.
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