News for Norfolk Education Providers

The Education Finance team has published this month's Finance Focus Newsletter. As this is the first edition of the new academic year, this is a bumper edition with a number of important articles and information.

Please ensure we have received the attendance information for new Yr R and Yr 7 children by 26 September to enable the next stage of the process to be concluded.

Further to the change of structure of the High Needs SEND Service into a locality structure to support good relationships with Schools and Settings, we are very pleased to announce Amy Hanton will be the Head of Service for North, East and Broadland.

R;pple is an interceptive tool designed to present a visual prompt which works alongside any filtering solution already in place identifying potentially damaging online content.

Payments for Pupil Premium Plus for Previously Looked After Children for the financial year 2025 to 2026 will be paid based on children recorded in the October 2024 school census for mainstream and special schools. Please ensure you have communicated this information to all families as they will need to declare their child's previously looked after status to school for inclusion.