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Talk to Me’ is a free, interactive training simulation designed to give adults the confidence to hold difficult conversations with children about abuse, designed by Attensi in collaboration with the NSPCC.

A webinar hosted by the technology company Text Help will focus on how the current climate of remote learning is impacting on teaching and learning for SEND students.

Parents of young people with dyslexia aged 11 years or over are invited to attend a webinar on study skills. The session may also be useful for young people with dyslexia aged 14 years or over to join. 

An inquiry by the parliamentary public accounts committee found that the education, wellbeing and life-chances of pupils with SEND are being damaged by the government’s failure to give them the support they need.
 

To support  families, facing immense hardship during these very frightening and uncertain times, Friends of Mettupalayam is raising funds to provide fresh vegetables bought direct from the wholesalers and rice for around 300 families, each week. Soap and facemasks have also been provided, together with guidance on social distancing!As all non-essential work is suspended  the impact has been a return to the levels of food poverty last seen many years.