SSCE Cymru Resources

Resources for schools, education settings, local authorities, Service children and Service families in Wales

Includes information, advice and signposting to relevant support, broken down into eight sections:

The Armed Forces in Wales
Research
Service children’s experiences
Education in Wales
Data and school admission
Mental health & wellbeing
Youth Provision
Funding

Produced in conjunction with the SSCE Cymru School Toolkit; these resources can be downloaded, tailored and used schools, parents/carers and/or Service children.

Good practice examples

Case studies and films sharing good practice examples of how schools and local authorities in Wales are identifying the need of their Service children and supporting them.

Service children – funding guidance for schools in Wales

Members of the SSCE Cymru Network produced this document to provide schools and local authorities in Wales with information about the funding streams available, along with advice on completing the applications.

Service children’s experiences films

Service children across Wales talking about their experiences of being part of an Armed Forces family.

Welsh films

Celebrating Service children learning Welsh and sharing their new language skills.

Directory of support

Includes details of nearly 100 organisations that are relevant to supporting Service children; with search and filter functions that help users utilise the breadth of information.

SSCE Cymru newsletters

Produced quarterly with content provided by the SSCE Cymru Network to be circulated to all schools in Wales.

The main content in the Newsletter includes:

SSCE Cymru updates
Funding updates
SSCE Cymru Network updates – education, Armed Forces organisations, schools, local authorities and other Network members
Resources
Upcoming events
Case studies.

SSCE Cymru school survey

In 2019, SSCE Cymru invited all schools in Wales that have Service children enrolled to participate in a survey. The topics included:

School information
Mobility data
Challenges
Support
Funding
Armed Forces community
SSCE Cymru resources and training.

Listening to our Service children

In 2019/20, SSCE Cymru ran a number discussion groups in schools in Wales, to hear from Service children about their experiences of education in Wales. These findings fed into the Year of the Service Child Voice project by the SCiP Alliance.

Service children Additional Learning Needs (ALN) report

The research explores the challenges of identifying, assessing and implementing support for Service children with Additional Learning Needs (ALN) in Wales. It also examines the potential impact of the new ALN code of practice in Wales. The report includes the following: