Learning Support Units in Hertfordshire
Between 2000 and 2003 the Children Schools and Families service supported
the development of seven Learning Support Units (LSUs) in secondary schools
using The Standards Fund grant. These units are based in the following
schools:
- Astley Cooper - Hemel Hempstead
- Cavendish - Hemel Hempstead
- Francis Combe - Watford
- Marriots - Stevenage
- Mount Grace - Potters Bar
- Sele - Hertford
- Sheredes - Hoddesdon
This central government funding ended in March 2003. CSF has continued
to fund these seven LSUs and has identified thirteen further schools to
receive funding, giving a total of twenty.
The thirteen new schools were identified using a range of data including
exclusions, casual admissions and social deprivation factors. These new
units are based in the following schools:
- Adeyfield - Hemel Hempstead
- Barclay - Stevenage
- Barnwell - Stevenage
- Bushey Hall - Bushey
- Cheshunt - Cheshunt
- Collenswood - Stevenage
- Francis Bacon - St Albans
- Heathcote - Stevenage
- Hertswood - Borehamwood
- Onslow St Audrey's - Hatfield
- St Mary's High - Cheshunt
- The Priory School, Hitchin
- Thomas Alleyne - Stevenage
- Westfield Community Technology College - Watford
LSUs are in-school units which aim to support pupils who are vulnerable
and/or at risk of permanent exclusion. They provide separate short-term
teaching and support programmes tailored to the needs of individual pupils,
aiming to keep them in school and working whilst their behaviour problems
are tackled. They may also be used for other groups of pupils such as
casual admissions and those returning from fixed term exclusion as a method
of integration/reintegration. They are not "sin bins": the aim is to maintain
young people in mainstream education. Each unit takes between six and
ten pupils at any one time and has a high staff to pupil ratio. They have
clear entry and exit criteria and are an integral part of school life.
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