ePEP-Attendance-Tracker

ePEP Attendance Tracker Hits NEW 97.5% Target

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We have recently added the ePEP Attendance Tracker feature allowing third party suppliers to feed weekly or live attendance figures directly into the ePEP via our new API plug-in.

The ePEP Attendance Tracker also allows teachers to manually enter attendance data before the PEP meeting takes place, including notes and explanations on why the child might have been absent. The live attendance information can be recorded weekly or monthly and is displayed through the NEW Control Panel and within the Professional section.

Attendants can now be tracked graphically on individual children, year groups or total number of children with schools by the Virtual School.

The two main suppliers for providing within and outside attendance data are Wonde and Sims.

Both organisations have full access to our ePEP API plug-in. Reports can be directly accessed from within the ePEP platform by the Virtual School, designated teacher and social worker, manual attendance data can recorded if no third-party supplier collects data for your authority.

The ePEP system will alert professionals via e-mail externally if the child’s attendance drops below 97.5%. 

Designated Teachers embrace ePEP attainment

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ePEP’s attainment section enables teachers to use their own school measures while RAG rating and tracking live and termly progress on core subjects. The system provides pictorial graphs and reports – which are easily understood by social workers, teachers and carers alike via the ePEP dashboard.

Designated teachers have successfully embraced ePEP to record live termly attainment and attendance data across the country. Feedback has been extremely positive from authorities using the system as can be seen by a case study done by Northampton:

“We are learning as we are moving on and are confident that with the excellent professional support we are getting from eGov Digital and the full engagement from our teams, by the end of next term the electronic PEP system will be fully embedded in the processes and the educational outcomes for the LAC children will see considerable improvement.” – Nina Thomas, Northampton

Both Social Care and Education databases can now use our import/ export tool to populate core personal information, attainment and attendance. The ePEP platform can also highlight data discrepancies between databases to ensure records are correct.

“RAG rating termly results and estimating achievements has become an essential facility for professionals to quickly access and share information referring to the PEP”. – Adam Palmer, Hull

 

Widgit Symbols

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One of the great features of ePEP are the sections for the young people to complete using interactive avatars. The young person has numerous options to choose from, children with reading difficulties or a visual impairment significantly benefit from the spoken questions by the avatar.

This technique guarantees for whatever reason the child cannot read or has difficulty communicating by the written word to have their say.

The company has worked closely with Gloucestershire Council in developing a questionnaire for youngsters who have difficulty communicating using symbols used by Widgit Symbols software. Many local authorities already have access to Widgit software so can freely use the questionnaire in the SEN module of ePEP. This technique using symbols might look simple compared to ePEP’s under-water environment, however this could over excited SEN children. The symbols have been an overwhelming success with young people enabling them to easily participating with the familiar language.

Many SEN special schools are also very familiar with these symbols.

More Information about Widgit Symbols

The ever expanding Widgit Symbols Set has been terms of the past 23 years and now contains more than 12,000 symbols, which cover an English vocabulary of over 40,000 words. Widgit’s simply-drawn, colourful symbols each illustrate a single concept, in a clear and concise way, and cover a range of topics (including many curricular areas) wide enough to make them suitable for symbol users of all ages and abilities.

Widgit Symbols are used all over the world, supporting 17 languages, increasing the accessibility of written text, giving readers of all literacy levels greater access to information. As the Widgit Symbols Set is designed specifically for written information, Widgit Symbols users can develop a real independence in the reading and writing.

The Widgit Symbols project was launched in October 2002 and has proven to be very successful over the past 23 years. This is special thanks to Widgit Symbol and Speak and to the many practitioners from over 50 local authorities.

More information on the design rules and schema

More information about the development project

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Information about Widgit Symbols from www.widgit.com