Education and TrainingWe provide bespoke training packages to schools and professionals who work with Service Children and their families.

Our training sessions and one day conferences are based on both academic and practitioner research and input from Service children and their families themselves. We ensure that our sessions offer practical skills and plenty of examples of good practice underpinned by genuine experience. Typical sessions include Deployment, Postings and Transitions and

Practical Interventions. Our 2013 National

Conference focuses on the needs of

our youngest Service Children and their families.

New for 2013Two day intensive course

for those working with Service Children and their families in

conjunction with Buckinghamshire County Council, Halton School,

Solent NHS Trust and Child Bereavement UK.

SCSN is an independent social enterprise that works in collaboration with the MOD and Military welfare organisations to support Educational and Welfare professionals and Members of the Military in their roles in supporting Service Children and their families.

Sharing best practice to support Service Children

Service Children Support Network

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Widen Participation ProjectThe Service Children Support Network is delighted to announce a partnership project with the Bath Spa University Widening Participation Team.

This initiative will trial an educational enrichment and support project for primary and secondary aged Service children in schools in Wiltshire and Somerset in 2013. This programme will geographically extend the current project in place with the University of Oxford in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

Service Children Coordinator ProjectOur Service Children support project began in 2009 with Caroline Allen at Halton School in Buckinghamshire and has now expanded to cover a cluster of primary and secondary schools in the county with the aid of our peripatetic support coordinators Emma Cheedy and Helen Brettell. The project is set to expand into more schools in 2013. We can also offer intensive training packages for coordinators in other local authorities.

Service Children’s CompetitionEach year we offer Service children an opportunity to express themselves creatively in our ‘Through the Eyes of a Service Child’ competition. We had hundreds of fabulous entries in our 2011 Art and 2012 photography competitions. Look out for our 2013 competiton.

The aims of the project are to:• Inspire intellectual, global and personal curiosity in pupils.• Enrich and enhance students self-esteem, aspirations and hopes for the future.• Introduce the language and context of Further and Higher Education and dispel any misconceptions about university study and life.• Give students a greater understanding of their progression through school.

InternshipsSCSN offers graduate internships through the University of Oxford Student Hub Ethical Internship scheme and the University of Reading Student Teachers Internship programme.

New for 2013 Working in conjunction

with Recruit for Spouses

to offer SCSN internships for Military spouses.

ResearchProfessionals working with Service children often tell us that they find it difficult to find and access relevant research material.

SCSN aims to bring such work together, to facilitate the sharing of research into the lives and experiences of Service children. In September 2012 our first Academic Research Conference was held at the Department of Education University of Oxford. Practitioners and researchers from across the UK and overseas came together to share research papers focused on Service children and their families.

Details for our 2014 Academic Research Conference including a call for papers will be available from February 2014.

This is done by delivering interesting,

informative and relevant programmes to

learners between the ages of 10-18 both in

schools and in the university.