At St Peter's School, Mrs Smith is available to provide support, advice and information to the families within our school community. She can help you with any worries you may have about your child’s education and wellbeing and she is also here as someone to talk to if you need support yourself. She can meet in school at a time that suits you. Any advice and support that she offers will be confidential, although concerns relating to the safeguarding of children will always be dealt with in accordance with school’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. She may not have all the answers, but she will be able to point you in the direction of appropriate people to help in that case.

Support for families includes:

• Providing information and signposting to other services in your local area.
• Liaising with external services e.g. Housing and Children Social Care.
• Attendance and support at school.
• Support during appointments and in meetings.
• Help to complete paperwork and forms e.g. housing, school letters, grant applications and benefits.
• Advice and support to promote good attendance.
• Referrals to outside agencies e.g. Continence service, Paediatric Learning Disability Team and Speech and Language Therapists.
• Guidance with access to training and parent workshops in school.
• Emotional support for parents
• Lead on CAF and TAF's.
• Give parents access to Disability events and training events.
• Support for transitioning pupils.

She is available Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 3pm.

Her email address is r.smith@st-peters-burnley.lancs.sch.uk