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 Scotland’s Traveller Education Network
Welcome to Scotland’s Traveller Education Network (TENET).
TENET came into being around 1998 when teachers of Travelling children and young people from four of Scotland’s education authorities began meeting to reduce their sense of professional isolation, and to share information and good practice. TENET quarterly meetings (PDF) continue to provide an informal forum where Scottish teachers, managers and other professionals from local authorities discuss and share common issues affecting their working with Traveller families, schools and support service staff. STEP provides administrative support for TENET and participates in its events and concerns. TENET meetings, which are generally hosted by STEP, allow members to network, exchange news and share new resources.
Currently, twenty of Scotland’s thirty-two education authorities are members of TENET and many enable their staff to attend its meetings and engage in its CPD activities, e.g. more recently around the delivery of Curriculum for Excellence. These opportunities are important for TENET members as many work peripatetically and are frequently unable to access the CPD opportunities delivered for school-based colleagues.
TENET Coordinating Group is comprised of TENET members who contribute to and work with STEP in delivering a collective response to Scottish Government consultations and policy initiatives e.g. in relation to education and other areas affecting their delivery of educational services for Traveller families. Other small group working parties help develop resources e.g. currently the My Learning Record is being reviewed in the light of its use over the last two years and will be amended in line with Curriculum for Excellence.
STEP gathers and publishes contact details for local authorities’ education support staff for Traveller families. These are the people to contact if a family wants their child to receive teaching in areas across Scotland.
Children Missing from Education (Scotland)
TENET meetings allow members to ensure continuity of education for pupils they have worked with. These informal networking opportunities help to ensure that CME’s searches are carried out appropriately i.e. for Traveller children who are actually ‘missing from education’ i.e. not children from a mobile family that are most likely ‘between education services’. If professionals have concerns regarding the ‘safety and well being’ of a Traveller child a CME search should be carried out.
TENET’s Glow Group, which is a username and password protected secure space, will be used to allow its members to electronically share information about children who are ‘between education services’. All users of Glow need a Glow Account, and a username and password. Contact your education authority to ask for contact details for the Glow Key Contact whose job it is to provide Glow usernames and passwords.
The National Association of Teachers of Travellers and Other Professionals
This English based organization hosts a web site where you will find a wealth of information and discussion regarding resources and shared other issues relating to the education of Travelling children and young people. NATT + resources, designed with the English curriculum in mind, nevertheless can contribute towards delivering Curriculum for Excellence for Traveller children and young people.
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