[senco-forum] Notifications and Announcements

Dear All,

This week's notice includes: 

1. Job vacancy: LSAs, St Albans
2. Conference: Working Together to get it right for every child: transdisciplinary working for children and young people with Communication Disability, Edinburgh
3. Conference: Do the right thing: On relationships and sexual health for young people with learning disabilities, Nottingham

Full details below. 

If you have any announcements, information about courses, details of conferences, job vacancies that you would like included in future notices please email details to: senco-forum-owner at lists.becta.org.uk

Regards, 

Jason
Becta

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1. Job vacancy: LSAs, St Albans

For September 2007 there are vacancies for LSAs to work a 25 hour week, (9-3:35 Monday to Friday) in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

An extremely friendly, cohesive department of 25 in a high achieving comprehensive school 2 mins walk from the centre of historic St Albans. Experience not essential but a sense of humour is vital.

For further details, email Jane Scaysbrook: j.scaysbrook at ntlworld.com

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2. Conference: Working Together to get it right for every child: transdisciplinary working for children and young people with Communication Disability

21 September, Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

This conference considers the challenges and opportunities faced by practitioners and managers in working together to meet the needs of a diverse range of children and young people with a communication disability. It will also support practitioners to address learning and access to the curriculum in a range of mainstream settings.

This conference will explore the principles and processes of transdisciplinary working which applies across all phases of education There will be an emphasis on the primary phase it will also be of interest and relevance to staff working within early years and secondary phases.
Keynote Speakers to be confirmed.

You will also have the opportunity to hear from a range of experts in the field and network with colleagues. Partner and other organisations will also exhibit and present poster presentations at the conference.

This conference is for practitioners and managers, who work with children with speech, language and communication difficulties and/or communication support needs. This includes teachers, speech and language therapists, support assistants, educational psychologists, CAMHS, school leaders and service managers.

Fee: £130 or £99 if you book before July 31st 2007.
Further details: http://www.ican.org.uk/home/Conferences/Transdisciplinary%20Working.aspx

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3. Conference: Do the right thing: On relationships and sexual health for young people with learning disabilities, Nottingham

One-day conference and workshops
Thursday June 28, 2007
Nottingham Gateway Hotel

Chaired by: Prof Penny Standen, Professor of Health Psychology and Learning Difficulties, University of Nottingham

The conference is dedicated to the memory and work of Ann Craft who pioneered good practice on relationships and sexual health for young people with learning disabilities, and who died 10 years ago this year. Her enormous contribution, working from Nottingham, is the inspiration for the Ann Craft Trust based in the city and is enshrined in a revised edition of her teaching resource Living your Life, published by Brook.

What's right for each child with learning disabilities is a major concern for professionals seeking to support the emotional and sexual development of young people.

But, too often forgotten within that process are these young people's rights to sexual health, relationships and sexuality.

It's an area where young people with learning disabilities often do not get the same opportunities, education, support and services as do their non-disabled peers.

Unless we create positive, proactive opportunities for young people with learning disabilities to form friendships, have relationships, receive high quality PSHE, and access services in safe, supportive communities we continue to fail them.

Supported by the Department of Health, and presented by Brook in partnership with The Shepherd School, Nottingham, and the Ann Craft Trust, Do the right thing is an important conference opportunity for professionals working with young people with learning disabilities to explore the issues, share knowledge and take away practical examples of how law, policy and best practice can be replicated in their own settings.

For further details visit: http://www.brook.org.uk/content/BrookConferences.asp
or email training at brookcentres.org.uk for a booking form.