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Cymraeg

Family Information Service
Telephone: 01267 246555
FIS text service: Please start your message with ‘Children’ and send to 07786 202747
Fax: 01267 246745
e-mail childreninfo@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

Education Maintenance Allowance for 17-18 year old students (schools/FE colleges offer a different National Assembly funded EMA to 16 year old students from September 2004)
Travelling Allowance to students attending Further Education courses
Free school meals
Students attending University or Higher Education College can apply for Student Support:
- student loans,
- assistance towards tuition fees and
- supplementary grants.

Secondary Schools: Education Inclusion Service

Brief description of service:

Attendance issues (following referral from schools)
Alternative curricular timetables (KS4-young people)
Educational provision for Looked After Children / young people

To provide opportunities outside of the school setting and to increase successful participation in all forms of learning. To aim for the highest levels of attendance in school and the lowest levels of disaffection and exclusion.

www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk
Telephone: 0845 658 0445

Education Psychology Service

Educational Psychologists are applied psychologists who primarily address issues within children and young people's development and learning. For more information contact:

www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk
Telephone: 0845 658 0445

Carmarthenshire 14-19 Network

Brief description of service: Responsible for taking the lead and developing the Learning Pathways 14 - 19 agenda in Carmarthenshire. Developing education for 14 - 19 yr olds in Carmarthenshire. This entails developing academic, vocational and functional courses, looking at Personal Assistance for young people within the school and other educational establishments, such as the Further Education College, and training providers etc.

Professional Education Centre, Felinfach, Carmarthenshire, SA48 8AF Tel No: 01545 572720/574265 Fax No: 01545 572709 Email: bethanev@Carmarthenshire.gov.uk

School Councils

All primary, secondary and special schools in Wales are required to have a school council which meets minimal requirements, as set out in the School Councils Wales Regulations.

How can I get involved in my school council?

You can get involved in your school council by standing for election. Everyone in your school should have the chance to stand for election if they wish. If you don’t get elected onto the council, you can still take part in decisions, by making sure that your representative makes a note of your opinions, and that these are discussed by the school council. Your representative will then let you know what the council decided. Some school councils have sub-committees or other action groups which are linked to the council, and you may be able to be involved in one of these. Examples of these are Eco-committees, School Nutrition Action Groups (SNAG), and Peer Mentors. However you want to be involved, you should have the chance to do so!

What kind of things can the school council do, and what difference can it make?

The school council can discuss anything which is of concern to you and which you think could make school a better place. This could be things about the school environment (e.g. the state of the toilets, less litter around the school), changes in policies (e.g. school uniform, the anti-bullying policy), or anything which affects the quality of your education at school (e.g. sport equipment, different ways of teaching and learning). Pupils tell us that the school council can make a real difference, because pupils experience better facilities as a result of issues brought to the school council, but also because young people feel valued and listened to.

Estyn

What is Estyn?

Estyn is the office of Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales. We are an independent inspection service, led by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales.

How to contact Estyn?
Estyn
Anchor Court
Keen Road
Cardiff
CF24 5JW
Tel: 029 2044 6446
Fax: 029 2044 6448
E-mail: enquiries@estyn.gsi.gov.uk for general enquiries

www.estyn.gov.uk

School Admissions

Admission to primary and secondary schools is not automatic. All schools have 'admissions criteria' which the school's admission authority uses to allocate places if they receive more applications than they have places available.

Colleges & Universities

Coleg Sir Gar / Carmarthenshire College

www.colegsirgar.ac.uk
Coleg Ceredigion

www.ceredigion.ac.uk
University of Wales, Lampeter

www.lamp.ac.uk
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

www.aber.ac.uk
Trinity University College, Carmarthen

www.trinity-cm.ac.uk

Special Educational Needs (SEN)

There is a variety of support systems available for children with SEN in both the primary and secondary sectors.

Careers/Training

Careers Wales West

Careers Wales is an all-Wales service that gives people of all ages free careers information, advice and guidance.

www.careerswales.com

Jobcentre Plus

Jobcentre Plus is a government agency supporting people of working age from welfare into work, and helping employers to fill their vacancies. Learndirect is an e-teaching organisation. Learndirect operates a network of more than 750 online learning centres in England and Wales. These provide flexible learning for adults wanting to improve existing skills or to learn new ones.

Travail Employment Group [ReAct]

Helping you back into work. Have you recently been made redundant? An initiative by the Welsh Assembly Government has been set up to help people who have been made redundant to find a new job as soon as possible. This is called ReAct. Support under the ReAct scheme is available for individuals who:

Have become unemployed in the last six months as a result of redundancy, are currently unemployed, and who have not been in continuous employment for 6 weeks or more since being made redundant; or
Are currently under notice of redundancy, and
Have not undertaken any publicly funded training since being made redundant, including the work-based learning suite programs.

For more information:

ReAct by the Welsh Assembly Government

ReAct advice from Careers Wales West

Jobcentre PlusLearn Direct

Skill

Promotes opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
Tel: 0800 328 5050

www.skill.org.uk

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