[senco-forum] Press Notice No. 12 from the Children, Schools and Families Committee

Sorry Jamie

  This message descended into 'scribble' for me because I don't understand how to 'chip students' (frying tonight?  I could offer some names!)
  and RFID?  
  BSF?  
  tags?  
  I do happen to know about the SENIT mailing list so I know it is something to do with computers.

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

Jamie Munro <jmunro at djsn.co.uk> wrote:
  Over on the SENIT mailing list, discussion on how to chip students using
RFID tags seems to have already begun.

" Where we have been working in schools under BSF we have been getting a
lot of questions about RFID recently

If this is something you've heard of but don't really know what it is
weve added a free elearning course on RFID courtesy of Abhisam software

Whilst it doesn't talk about schools, the tutorial does explain what the
tags are, how they differ from barcodes and some practical applications

If you are working on vision or output spec under BSf you may find it
useful background information to help

You'll find it under our general IT courses at
www.abilitynettraining.org

Always interested to hear from others experience of using RFID tags in
schools and consider some of the potential for pupils with SEN - anyone
tried anything interesting ?"

> From: 
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> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:55:46 -0000
> To: Becta Senco 
> Subject: [senco-forum] Press Notice No. 12 from the Children, Schools and
> Families Committee
> 
> Press Notice No. 12 from the Children, Schools and Families CommitteeNot
> sure if anyone is interested in this. No mention of illegal immigrants, but
> there must be some children who cannot attend school at all. Could not think
> of any other 'under the radar' children other than those mentioned. Just
> waiting for those ID to go one stage further and have us micro chipped, like
> my dog. It has points for and against!
> Sharon
> 
> Children, Schools and Families Committee
> Select Committee Announcement
> 
> 
> Committee Office, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA
> 
> Media Enquiries: Rebecca Jones 020 7219 5693 / 07917 488549
> 
> 30 January 2008
> 
> 
> 
> CHILDREN ŒUNDER THE RADAR¹
> 
> Oral Evidence Session
> 
> The Children, Schools and Families Committee will be taking formal oral
> evidence as follows:
> 
> Wednesday 6 February 2008 at 9.30am
> 
> The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
> 
> Evidence from: Dr Jo Aldridge, Young Carers¹ Research Group, Loughborough
> University; John Reacroft, Children¹s Services Manager (Families in
> Temporary Accommodation), Barnardo¹s; and Kathy Evans, Policy Director, The
> Children¹s Society.
> 
> The purpose of this meeting is to give Members the opportunity to explore
> issues related to children Œunder the radar¹, meaning children and young
> people who either are not known to education or other children¹s services,
> or whose particular needs and circumstances are not known to those services.
> Some of the different categories such children may fall into‹such as
> runaways, children from highly mobile families, young carers and so on ‹will
> be considered. However, the main aim of the session is see if some general
> conclusions can be drawn across these categories about the reasons for
> children not being in touch with services, the current ability of voluntary
> and statutory services to identify and respond to these needs, and whether
> the ability to respond will be enhanced by the Every Child Matters agenda
> and associated developments.
> 
> These sessions will be open to the public on a first come, first served
> basis. There is no system for the prior reservation of seats in Committee
> Rooms. It is advisable to allow about 20 minutes to pass through security
> checks. Committee rooms and timings are subject to change.
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> 
> 
> FURTHER INFORMATION:
> 
> The Children, Schools and Families Committee is one of the House¹s Select
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> Government by convention responds to reports within about two months of
> publication. These responses are also published.
> 
> The Members are:
> 
> Mr Barry Sheerman (Chairman) Labour, Huddersfield
> 
> Adam Afriyie Conservative, Windsor
> 
> Annette Brooke Liberal Democrat, Mid Dorset and Poole North
> 
> Ms Dawn Butler Labour, Brent South
> 
> Mr Douglas Carswell Conservative, Harwich
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> Mr David Chaytor Labour, Bury North
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> Mr John Heppell Labour, Nottingham East
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> Mrs Sharon Hodgson Labour, Gateshead East and Washington West
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> Paul Holmes Liberal Democrat, Chesterfield
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> Fiona Mactaggart Labour, Slough
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> Mr Andrew Pelling Conservative, Croydon Central
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> Mr Andy Slaughter Labour, Ealing, Acton and Shepherd¹s Bush
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> Mr Graham Stuart Conservative, Beverley & Holderness
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> Lynda Waltho Labour, Stourbridge
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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall