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November 2025

FAO: Headteachers, senior leaders, governors, all teaching, early years and support staff

News from the education teams:

Conferences and professional development:

Training and courses:

News from the education teams

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School support services conference: Supporting schools to innovate, sustain, and thrive

5 February 2026
Future Skills Centre, Exeter

School support services conference: Supporting schools to innovate, sustain, and thrive

Explore AI integration, sustainability, and creative change strategies through keynotes and interactive workshops. Network, learn, and be inspired to support thriving school systems at the School Support Services Conference.

Find out more and book your place here
Supporting mentally healthy schools conference – Feeling safer to connect, belong and learn play

10 March 2026
Sandy Park, Exeter

Supporting mentally healthy schools conference: Feeling safer to connect, belong and learn

Join Devon’s flagship conference focused on creating emotionally safe, inclusive school environments where every child can thrive.
Gain practical tools and insights to lead whole-school change around wellbeing, equity, and psychological safety.

Find out more and book your place now
Supporting pupils with Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)

Supporting pupils with Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)

Develop your Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision (OAIP) around supporting school attendance and tackling Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA). 

Gain practical strategies and resources like the ATTEND Framework and School Wellbeing Cards to help pupils thrive.

Book now to strengthen your school’s approach to attendance and wellbeing
School Library Service countdown to Christmas

Countdown to Christmas

Bring festive joy to your classroom with the Countdown to Christmas wall display, featuring 16 magical picture books and engaging activities to spark a love of reading.
Perfect for KS1, these resources help build anticipation and literacy through daily story time and creative fun.

View the School Library Services resources here
National PSHE CPD Programme

Enhance PSHE delivery with expert-led online CPD

Boost your PSHE delivery with this six-session, tutor-led online course, to build confidence and competence in teaching PSHE, RSHE, and safeguarding. Ideal for educators and professionals supporting young people.

Programme starts: 26 November 2025

Book now to enhance your PSHE delivery
Moving and handling - initial and refresher courses

Moving and handling
- initial and refresher courses

Support students with physical difficulties safely and confidently. Learn legal requirements, risk assessments, handling plans & more.

Initial - 5 March & 16 June 2026
Refresher - 18 March & 23 June 2026

Book the initial course
Book the refresher course

Conferences

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Autumn term 2025

Spring term 2026

Summer term 2026

Find out more and book your place here

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Briefings and network meetings

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Data protection

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A fantastic opportunity for both subscribing and non-subscribing schools to meet and share ideas whilst receiving the latest updates on changes to data protection legislation and how this could affect you.

3 Dec 2025 - Explicit informed consent – when, how and why – in this session we will be looking at the conditions for valid consent, when it should be sought, who from, how it should be recorded and why.

5 Feb 2026 - Keeping data safe

(Please note that schools who subscribe to our DPO service can attend at no charge, as part of their subscription package)

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Early education (EYFS) and childcare

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    Early Years Foundation Stage

      Early Years and Childcare - including some fully funded training for Devon EYC providers (excl. Plymouth and Torbay)

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      Educational Psychology

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        These courses are fully funded for Devon schools and other schools with Devon children in care

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        English

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          Ethnically Diverse Education Achievement Service (EDEAS)

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          • EDEAS inset day training and key twilight sessions (fully funded for Devon maintained schools) and all delivered online - various dates, times and themes

            • Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showman (GRTS) Awareness training

            • Supporting multilingual children in the Early Years

            • Classroom strategies for multilingual children

            • Equality, diversity and inclusion awareness

            • Improving support for multilingual children

            • Supporting multilingual children with writing

            • Closing the word gap

            • Understanding different cultures in our Devon schools

          • Proficiency assessments - multilingual children - a powerful tool for helping multilingual children in their educational journey

          Find out more about EDEAS training and book your whole-school place

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          Finance

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          Governance

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          Governance consultancy subscriptions - everything you need to support governance, in one place

          Effective governance

          Effective clerking

          Key responsibilities

          Lunchtime bite-size sessions

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          Health and safety

          Devon Health and Safety Service training courses

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          Mathematics

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            Maths Subject Leaders: Support and Professional Development

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            Music

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              Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision

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                Outdoor education and leadership courses

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                  PSHE and RSHE

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                    School Library Service

                    Would you like to connect with other school librarians?

                    Our termly networking meetings are held either at our centre in Willand or online.

                    They are led by the SLS advisory team and are a source of up-to-date information, the sharing of ideas and good practice, plus a chance to look around another library and talk about the books we love.

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                    SEND - Communication and interaction (autism and language)

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                    Autism Education Trust

                    Did you know..?

                    All of our language training can be delivered in your school, and bespoke sessions and packages are available.  Contact us to discuss your individual requirements.

                    Our current training sessions include

                    • Understanding DLD and language
                    • Language and behaviour – training and consultation

                    Developing Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision to support C&I needs  focusing on

                    • Vocabulary
                    • Visual support
                    • Colour Semantics
                    • Supporting struggling readers
                    • Verbal reasoning and Blank levels

                    Training on Speech and Language UK interventions

                    • Early Talk Boost

                    • Talk Boost KS1

                    • Talk for work

                    • C&I learning walks - support to audit your environment from a C&I perspective

                    Find out more

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                    SEND - Sensory and/or physical needs

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                      Online learning from the sensory team:

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                      Sustainable schools and waste education

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                      Sustainability conference: Empowering schools towards a sustainable future

                      To support schools and settings with their sustainability commitments, we are launching a sustainability conference on 27 November 2025 which will be held at Sandy Park, Exeter.

                      Sandy Park, Exeter
                      27 November 2025

                      Find out more and book your place here

                      Become a WOW school – Running throughout a whole year and aimed at schools that want to empower their pupils to take part in climate action and reducing waste. Our team can help you improve recycling and increase reuse in your school through our intensive Watch Our Waste project. Contact the team for more details.

                      The Department for Education has published its strategy ‘Sustainability and Climate Change: A Strategy for the Education and Children’s Services Systems’ which states that by 2025, all schools should have:   

                      • A Sustainability Lead – a individual or team of people who will implement actions to improve the sustainability of the school (by Sept 2025)
                      • A Climate Action Plan – outlining how the schools plan to work towards Net Zero (by Dec 2025)

                      Devon County Council can support schools with a wide range of resources and opportunities to help with climate action plans, but there is also a number of excellent free resources being made available.

                      Visit our website to find out more

                        Free trips for schools - Bring a class of upper KS2 or secondary pupils to see inside the Energy from Waste plants in Exeter and Plymouth. Our trips book up fast and we only have a few 2025/26 dates remaining. Grants are available to help cover coach costs.

                        Free workshops for schools - Interactive, fun workshops and assemblies, about marine litter, materials, compost and recycling are brought to your school to help engage pupils and embed the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) and composting into the curriculum and everyday school life.

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