The Vulnerable Learners’ Service (VLS) provides a wide
range of options to ensure that schools, early years settings and
other providers are supported effectively to enable positive
outcomes for the most vulnerable children and young
people.
Benefits of service
The work of the service focuses on helping schools and EY
settings achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young
people in the following groups:
- SEN and or disability
- Social emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Looked after children and children on the child protection
register
- Travellers
- Ethnic minorities
- Sensory difficulties
The team consists of a highly skilled and knowledgeable group of
professionals including:
Our aim is to provide a service to schools and EY settings which
is:
- Effective
- Flexible
- Responsive and
- Accountable
We have produced a guide of services called 'We
Can' (pdf, Jan 2011, 1072KB) for parents and carers of
children and young people aged 0 -19 with additional needs in North
Somerset.
We publish a termly newsletter for SENCOs called SENCO
Link. Copies of this can be viewed on our
SENCO link page.
