The Pocket Guide to Every Child Matters

The aim of this pocket guide is to provide an at-a-glance overview and insight into Every Child Matters for busy trainee, newly qualified and experienced teachers, working with pupils in a range of educational settings, who want a quick point of reference in order to know how:

• the concept, aims and principles of Every Child Matters influences their practice
• to develop a shared vision and ethos for Every Child Matters
• Every Child Matters policy informs practice
• to develop effective teamwork and collaborative partnership working
• to embed Every Child Matters outcomes in personalised learning
• to monitor and evaluate the impact of Every Child Matters at classroom level.

Pocket Guide to Every Child Matters is an invaluable, good value, user-friendly resource for all busy Children s Workforce practitioners, working directly with pupils in classrooms, offers practical tips and guidance, effective strategies, models of good practice and signposting to further sources of information. It features step-by-step advice, useful checklists and templates which can be customised to suit the context of a range of primary and secondary phase educational settings.