Over the past few years the Education Leeds 14-19 Service has grown significantly as a result of responsibilities emanating from the 14-19 reform programme and growth in the development and contract management of a diverse range of 14-19 projects. This increase in the scale and scope of the 14-19 workload is set to continue to increase in the future.

The 14-19 Service work closely with the Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA) on strategies and structural changes to educational arrangements for 14-19 year olds. The team are also working closely with staff in schools, FE colleges, training providers and voluntary, community and faith sector organisations and other agencies, as well as colleagues in other teams in Education Leeds and the Council to transform outcomes for young people.

Members of the team are focused on improving the achievement and progression of 14-19 learners by providing the strategic and operational lead on a wide range of areas including: the development of 14-19 partnerships; introduction of the new 14-19 curriculum in particular the Diplomas; 14-19 Area Prospectus and Common Application Process (www.leedspathways.org.uk); funding and quality assurance of 14-16 off-site learning; learner support and the engagement of young people in employment, education and training.

Office opening times: 8.30am - 5.00pm (Mon - Thurs) 8.30am - 4.30pm (Friday)

Email: education14to19@leeds.gov.uk

For more information visit our website at: www.educationleeds.co.uk/14to19

The Aimhigher Programme continues to be a key component of government policy to widen, and thereby increase, participation in higher education, by supporting the attainment, aspirations, motivation and self-esteem of widening participation students and gifted and talented students aged 14-19.

www.leedsaimhigher.org or

Aim Higher West Yorkshire

ArtForms is the music and arts initiative within Education Leeds. We are a central focal point for all Leeds schools to access arts expertise, resources, information, support and guidance.

There are 3 broad strands to our work:

Music
– a wide range of music tuition, special projects and workshops and live performances are available to schools, delivered by a regular team of teachers employed by the service and in partnership with other external musicians and organisations. The Gordon Parry Centre in partnership with YAMSEN is a centre of excellence and resources designed to support music making for pupils who have special needs.

Artemis
– is a free service to schools allowing them to borrow from a collection of over 10,000 artefacts to support a vast range of teaching topics. Linked to Artemis is the Schoolroom at Armley Mills, which brings history alive by allowing classes to experience life in a 1940’s or Victorian schoolroom.

Arts Development
– promotes a range of opportunities supporting high quality learning in and through the arts. Arts Development holds a large database of artist contacts and a key aspect of the work is to support schools in developing and planning their programmes and to identify appropriate artists. Schools can also apply for a range of centrally developed programmes delivered in partnership with artists and arts organisations.

Visit the Homepage: ArtForms Homepage

Email: bsf@leeds.gov.uk
Telephone: (0113) 395 0302

City Learning Centres (CLCs) are a key element of the Exellence in Cities (EiC) programme, facilitated by the Department of Education and Skills. We are a network of school-based centres providing state-of-the-art ICT-based learning opportunities for Leeds and the surrounding community.

Leeds City Learning Centres offer new ways of thinking when it comes to improving both staff and student skills in a positive non-school environment. We aim to create state-of-the-art ICT-based learning opportunities for the pupils in your school. Our purpose is to enhance learning across the whole curriculum by providing courses and opportunities for individual pupils.

The official Leeds City Learning Centres Website contains further information at: www.leeds-clcs.org

Email us at dfc@leedslearning.net

The Deaf and Hearing Impaired Team ( DAHIT) work closely in partnership with Children’s Services, Education, Health, Social Care, parents/carers, other professionals and voluntary agencies including working in a multi-agency way through the Leeds Children’s Hearing Services Working Group.
This team is specially trained to support Deaf children and young people children from the point of diagnosis of deafness and works across the age range 0 -19.

This team is specially trained in the education of Deaf and hearing impaired students and young people. We support Deaf children from birth to school and into the transition to college and work. The Deaf and Hearing Impaired Team provide specialist support for babies and young children from the point of diagnosis of Deafness. Deaf children are supported in their education within their local mainstream early years setting, local mainstream school or within a resourced provision in a mainstream school. There are three schools that are resourced specially for Deaf students and these are:

• Shakespeare Primary and Nursery School
• Cottingley Primary School
• Allerton Grange High School

The Deaf and Hearing Impaired Team Peripatetic teachers support a large number of Deaf and hearing impaired children in local mainstream schools and Specialist Inclusive Learning Centres ( SILCs ).

The Sensory Service is particularly skilled in promoting inclusion of Deaf children and young people in education through a ‘Sign Bilingual’ approach to education and communication. This involves the use of both English and British Sign Language as languages of instruction.

Students receive support in accessing their course work through British Sign Language, English Support, Notetaking or Radio Aids.

The Deaf START Team provides training for educational settings in Deaf Awareness.

Tel: (0113 3951094)
Fax: (0113) 3951063
Minicom: (0113)3951064
Email: educ.deafstart@leeds.gov.uk

The Education Act 1996, Section 7, states that it is the duty of parents of every child of compulsory school age to ensure that they receive efficient full-time education suitable to their age, ability and aptitude and to any special educational needs they may have either by regular attendance at school or otherwise. The term “otherwise” incorporates the legal option of parents educating their child at home rather than them attending school. Education of a child is compulsory; schooling is not.

The documents attached provide guidance and advice on home education and on how parents and carers might liaise with the local authority.

Enquiries: Anne Wilkes
Tel: (0113) 395 0094
Email: anne.wilkes@leeds.gov.uk

If you wish to view information on the education of children with medical needs please make the alphabetic link to “M”.

Education Leeds and schools have specific statutory duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, and legislation with regard to sex and disability discrimination to ensure that Equalities lies at the heart of the drive for school improvement and raising attainment.

Enquiries: Rehana Minhas - Strategic Manager, Equalities
Telephone: (0113) 395 0009
E-mail: rehana.minhas@leeds.gov.uk
Address: Education Leeds, 10th Floor East , Merrion House 110 Merrion Centre, Leeds LS2 8DT

Tel: (0113) 214 4078

More information can be obtained from: Services to Schools - Ethnic Minority Achievement

Support for schools in their development of extended activity.

More information can be obtained from: Extended Services

Corporate accounts management; budget management (including estimates and monitoring).

Email us at educ.finman@leeds.gov.uk

To help schools and governing bodies meet the requirements of Local Management of Schools and Fair Funding, specifically, providing advice and assistance with budget planning and financial management and administration.

Enquiries
If you would like to discuss the service in further detail or would like to raise a specific issue,
please contact the officers named below:

SLA
Patrick Fletcher
Tel: (0113) 247 5153
E-mail: patrick.fletcher@leeds.gov.uk

Training
Fiona Meeson
Tel: (0113) 247 5156
E-mail: fiona.meeson@leeds.gov.uk

Peripatetic Bursar Service
Philip Matthews
Tel: (0113) 247 5152
E-mail: phillip.matthews@leeds.gov.uk

Payments Team
Paul Wainwright
Tel: (0113) 247 5174
E-mail: paul.wainwright@leeds.gov.uk

School Meals
Ian Parker
Tel:(0113) 247 5220
E-mail: ian.parker@leeds.gov.uk

Head of Service
Martin Hollos, Strategic Manager, Financial Services
Tel: (0113) 2475179
E-mail: martin.hollos@leeds.gov.uk
Address
Financial Services, 8th Floor East, Merrion House, 110 Merrion Centre, Leeds LS2 8DT

Tel: (0113) 247 5560
Fax: (0113) 224 3226

More information can be obtained from: Services to Schools - Governor Support Service

Tel: (0113) 2224414

The Hospital and Home Teaching Service (HHTS) was formed in April 2007 to provide education to children and young people who, because of their medical condition, are hospitalised or unable to attend mainstream school due to ill health.

This service is provided by the East Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (SILC) John Jamieson School, on behalf of Education Leeds through, a Service Level Agreement. In making this provision, the HHTS works with children and young people and their parents / carers, schools, health professionals and staff in Education Leeds.

Enquiries: Penny Woodhead
Tel: (0113) 3368060
Email:glcteachingservice@leedslearning.net

If you wish to view information on the education of children with medical needs please make the alphabetic link to “M”.

The Education Leeds Personnel Service provides expert and knowledgeable advice and support for schools, headteachers and governing bodies. These services include: employee relations including employment tribunals, workforce review and re-organisations, recruitment and selection, continuous professional development and health & safety

Tel: (0113) 247 5402
Email: educ.supp@leeds.gov.uk

Office opening times: 8.30am - 5.00pm (mon - thurs) 8.30am - 4.30pm (friday)

Please see the following link for further information Inclusion & SEN Services.

The Information Policy Section oversees compliance with the various laws and policies that govern the use of information. Such compliance is essential across a whole range of everyday business activities ranging from lawful investigation of personnel issues to lawful processing of personal information. We also formulate policy in accordance with these laws in terms of use of resources such as the Internet and e-mail facilities.

Tel: (0113) 224 3615

More information can be obtained from: Services to Schools - Information Policy

The team is responsible for ensuring that Education Leeds derives the best possible value from its data, information and knowledge assets. This involves: providing guidance and advice on meeting legal requirements for information policy, schools and for education Leeds; implementing, managing and developing the Education Leeds’ central information system, known as the Education Data Management System; helping to facilitate improved information sharing between all parties working with children and young people; providing business analysis, support and project guidance or management relating to the use of information and technology; providing ICT hardware and software purchasing, support and maintenance. These are just some of the functions that the team carry out.

Contact: David Morris
Telephone: (0113) 214 4388
E-mail: david.morris@leeds.gov.uk
Website:http://www.educationleedslct.org/

• Provide professional and strategic leadership and management across Leeds for the identification of, and provision for, gifted and talented pupils;
• Develop Strategies to facilitate positive and radical change;
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of the Gifted and Talented Strategy to include the appropriate use of available resources;
• Work with our partners in Oxford Brookes University and the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth.

Telephone: (0113)2144480
Website:http://www.educationleedslct.org/

• To provide to all schools support, advice and guidance in their employment and deployment of Learning Mentors.
• To provide support to Learning Mentors in the planning, operation and development of their role.

Telephone: (0113)2144338

More information can be obtained from: Services to Schools - EiC - Learning Mentor Strand Co-ordinators

Website: http://www.educationleedslct.org/

The main aims are to provide volunteer mentor support to:

• 13-19 year olds from the Aimhigher cohort who have the potential to enter HE but who are underachieving because they come from relatively deprived socio-economic backgrounds with limited or no previous family involvement in the HE sector; 
• underachieving students who have the potential to achieve five or more GCSE grades A* - C or above passes but are borderline candidates.

Purpose of the Service:

• provide volunteer mentor support to students within the Aimhigher cohort (Years 9 – 13) in 43 high schools and eight FE colleges;  
• increase opportunities for disadvantaged groups to access post 16 and higher education.

Telephone: (0113) 288 3535

Mentoring; city learning centres;

Email Mike Cooper at: coopermj04@leedslearning.net

Contact: Steve Smith
Telephone: 07891 271086

Website:http://www.educationleedslct.org/

Leeds School Meals Team

The Leeds School Meals team are here to offer guidance and support to all schools to help implement the new school meal standards, improve the dining experience and ensure everyone has access to and enjoys healthy school meals.

Enquiries: 0113 224 3779
Email: education.schoolmeals@leeds.gov.uk

More information can be gained from visiting our website at: www.educationleeds.co.uk/schoolmeals

Email:educ.lettings@leeds.gov.uk

Section 19 of the Education Act 1996 states, "Each Local Education Authority(LEA) should make arrangements for the provision of suitable education at school or otherwise than at school for children of compulsory school age who, by reason of illness, exclusion from school or otherwise, may not for any period receive suitable education unless arrangements are made for them." Children with medical needs have the same rights of admission to a school or setting as other children. More information is available in the Medical Needs policy.

Enquiries:Penny Woodhead
Tel:(0113) 3368060
Email:glcteachingservice@leedslearning.net

To view information on the education of children at home(EHE) or the education of children in hospital(HHTS) please make the alphabetic link to "E" and "H" respectively

Also located in the links section of the website "Richmond Hill Education Action Zone".

• Parent Partnership Website

Teaching Telephone: 0113 3952252
Non-Teaching Telephone:0113 3952251

Email: BSC HRPAY.SchoolsSupport@leeds.gov.uk (officers pay day 16th)

Email: BSC HRPAY.Teaching@leeds.gov.uk (pay day 26th )

More information can be obtained from: Services to Schools - Payroll Services

Telephone: 0113 39 50701
Fax: 0113 2475611
Email: educ.pmi@leeds.gov.uk

More information can be obtained from: Services to Schools - Performance Management & Information Team

Contact: Early Years Administration Team - (0113) 395 1040

Contact: Phil Lawson (Director of Primary Partnerships), Elmete Centre.
Telephone: (0113) 2144049,
Email: phil.lawson@leeds.gov.uk

The provision of support, guidance and advice to schools in procurement issues.

Philip Robson (Team Leader)
Telephone: (0113) 247 5596
Email: philip.robson@leeds.gov.uk

Advisers from the Quality Assurance team visit every Leeds Primary and Secondary school to discuss standards, targets and achievement.  The team will help to find additional support for the school or help it to share its expertise with others where this is appropriate.

Contact: Julie Hooker
Telephone: (0113) 214 4068

School Meals Team

The Leeds School Meals team are here to offer guidance and support to all schools to help implement the new school meal standards, improve the dining experience and ensure everyone has access to and enjoys healthy school meals.

Enquiries: 0113 224 3779
Email: education.schoolmeals@leeds.gov.uk

More information can be gained from visiting our website at: www.educationleeds.co.uk/schoolmeals

Please visit the School Organisation Webpage for contact details and information on the team's services.

The School Organisation Team plans the supply of school provision to meet the strategic and local needs of the Education estate in response to changing demographic demand. The School Organisation Plan 2003-2008 provides information on schools in Leeds and sets the context for reviewing and restructuring provision across all phases of education, including Early Years, in order to secure sustainable provision for the long-term.

Email: educ.school.organisation@leeds.gov.uk

• Carolyn Eyre
  Child Protection Co-ordinator
  Tel: 0113 395 1211
  
  
• Neil Borrowdale
  Education Protects
  Tel: 0113 395 1218
  
  
• Peter Saunders
  Travellers Service
  Tel: 0113 274 8050
  
  
• Nancy St. John
  SEN Support Team
  Tel: 0113 395 1044
  
  

• Identification and assessment of pupils educational needs
• Promoting teaching strategies that ensure high learning outcomes
• Direct support and teaching
• Liaison with health, social services and voluntary agencies
• Advice, training and support for families
• Training and support for schools, colleges and educational settings to ensure access
• Monitoring of progress and levels of achievement
• Curriculum differentiation
• Provision of specialist equipment and resources

Contact: Margaret Dalby (Principal Support Officer)
Email: margaret.dalby@leeds.gov.uk
Telephone : (0113) 2144068

Email: carole.gillan@leeds.gov.uk

The Education Transport team is responsible for overseeing the implementation of Leeds’ Policy for the provision of home to school or college transport for children and students prior to their nineteenth birthday and for the strategic planning of transport for children and students to their place of education. This includes door-to-door transport for young people with disabilities or special educational needs.

The team that assesses whether mainstream children and young people are eligible for free or assisted travel according to the policy is now based at Metro, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. Metro is also responsible for issuing Zero Fare SchoolCards (for use on public transport) and Zero Fare Boarding Cards (for use on dedicated school services) to children and young people who are eligible to travel without having to pay the appropriate fare.

Contacts:
educ.transport@leeds.gov.uk
For queries about Leeds’ policy and strategic transport planning
Allan Hudson on 0113 247 5593 or
Carole Perkin on 0113 247 5592
Queries about Zero Fare travel to and from school or college for mainstream students
0113 348 1121 (Metro)

The Travellers Education Service provides teaching support and advice to all Traveller families in Leeds. These include Gypsy Travellers, Fairground, Circus, Bargee, New Travellers and more recently Roma Refugees and Roma Asylum Seekers. It also provides advice and support to all education establishments and other agencies as required.

The aim of the Service is to ensure equal access and opportunity for all Travellers children in our nurseries, schools and colleges and also to those who are not on roll due to their transient life-style.This support is provided to directly raise Traveller educational achievement and indirectly by helping to break down the myths and stereo-typing that engenders the prejudice and discrimination that Travellers often experience.

For more details:

Contact:
Peter Saunders: Service Manager
Travellers Education Service
West Park Centre
Spen lane
Leeds
LS16 5BE

Telephone: 0113 274 8050
Fax: 0113 275 0445
E-mail: peter.saunders@leeds.gov.uk

For more information visit Gypsy Roma Traveller Leeds website