Placement Information

Offers & Agreement

During the Summer Term the partnership office will approach partner schools to request placement offers for the coming year and to ask partners supplying these placements to sign the Partnership Agreement.

These documents set out:

• Timing of placements
• Details of the funding each placement will attract
• Responsibilities of the University
• Responsibilities of the placement school

If you have not received (via email) a copy of the university-led offers document and Partnership Agreement and wish to offer placements for either Primary and Early Years of Secondary trainees, please email Partnership@warwick.ac.uk and we will be happy to provide documentation and advice

Safeguarding

The university ensures that all trainees, as part of admissions procedures, have taken part in a rigorous selection process designed to assess their suitability to train to teach and to satisfy Keeping Children Safe in Education requirements.
This includes an Enhanced DBS Check

The ITT Criteria supporting advice states:

Providers should confirm in writing to schools that a non-salaried trainee’s criminal record check, including a check of the children’s barred list, has been completed and that the individual has been judged by the provider to be suitable to work with children. Providers are not required to provide any information to schools in addition to this confirmation. Schools may wish to record this confirmation in their single central record, but they are not required to do so.

The university will send to placement schools, ahead of the placement start date (via a secure file sharing system) a copy of university vetting check.
This vetting check will confirm all of the above

Further information regarding the Centre for Teacher Education Safeguarding Policy can be found here

Funding

The school will be paid for each trainee placed with them. The amount the school will be paid is set out in the offers document. Towards the end of the placement the university will raise a purchase order for the relevant amount and send this to the school. The school will the return an invoice for the stated amount, quoting the purchase order number. invoices will be paid as per University Standard Terms and Conditions - by BACS payment into your nominated bank account 30 days from the date on invoice

For any University Led funding queries please email Partnership@warwick.ac.uk

Partnership Communication & Events

Professional Mentors, Subject Mentors and Class Teachers will be automatically signed up to relevant bulletins when their details are shared with the university by the school. These bulletins are sent out via mailchimp.
We save all bulletins on the Partners' intranet here should you ever need to refer back to them.
You can also sign up to bulletins yourself here

Partnership events are often advertised within the bulletins. Details of upcoming events can be found here