CLA FRIENDLY SCHOOL - TISUK Award

Greenfield and Maes Glas are a Trauma Informed and CLA (Children Looked After) Friendly Schools. We have received the Platinum Award for CLA Friendly schools and are a certified organisation for being Trauma Informed. This means that we use person-centred approaches to support pupils on an individual level, offering the care and support that each may need.

Greenfield and Maes Glas are proud to provide pupils with an emotionally available adult and a wide range of well-being interventions, including Relationship Based Play, ELSA and Therabuild. Greenfield School and Maes Glas are committed to enhancing the achievement and welfare of CLA and PCLA in the following ways:

• Having high expectations for the child and ensuring equal access to a balanced and broadly based education.
• Recording, monitoring, and improving the academic achievement of the child in addition to their health and well-being.
• Achieving stability and continuity.
• Prioritising reduction in exclusions and promoting attendance.
• Promoting inclusion through challenging and changing attitudes.
• Promoting good communication between all those involved in the child’s life and listening to the child.
• Maintaining and respecting the child’s confidentiality wherever possible.
• Ensuring staff awareness of, and sensitivity to, the difficulties and educational disadvantages of CLA.
• Ensuring an appropriately trained Designated Teacher is appointed, who will be responsible for all CLA.
• All CLA and PCLA will have a Personal Education Plan (PEP) drawn up between the school, the child, and the child’s social worker.