About EMTAS services

Removing barriers and inequalities in attainment and achievement is a priority for any head teacher. By working alongside you and using our specialist knowledge, we can help your school improve educational outcomes for children and young people from Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and Traveller heritages, including those learning English as an additional language (EAL).

We understand the importance of fostering open and productive relationships between schools, parents, carers, children and young people to remove barriers to learning. Through our specialist resources and support, we provide expert advice, guidance and training to help raise attainment and close the performance gap for children and young people from BME and Traveller groups.

If you are an academy within Hampshire, you have two options:

1. you can buy in services on a pay-as-you-go basis. Contact [email protected] to discuss this further.
2. you can purchase an SLA with EMTAS. This is a flexible arrangement whereby you purchase a number of full days from EMTAS and you choose how to use those days from an extensive range of services. It is a more cost-effective way of buying in support than the pay-as-you-go alternative. For full details, see our Academy SLA brochure below.

Current Service Level Agreement with Hampshire maintained and aided primary and secondary schools

As an alternative to our pay-as-you-go sold service offer, Academies can purchase an SLA with EMTAS for however many days they want and build their own package of support to fill those days. This brochure outlines how the Academy SLA offer works.

The SLA offer to schools and Academies on the Isle of Wight includes those services we think will make the most difference to outcomes for children on the island. See the Isle of Wight brochure for details.

Resources

Download and print off the full range of services you can access through EMTAS. Handy for notice boards in school!

This leaflet outlines the most popular services accessed by schools.

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• Bilingual support for children and young people at point of transfer into a new school in over 30 languages.
• Advice and training for teachers, support staff and governors on all aspects of practice and provision for children learning English as an additional language.
• Co-delivery of coffee events to promote parental engagement.
• A range of services for schools with Traveller pupils on roll.
• Guidance on the delivery of the award-winning Hampshire Young Interpreter Scheme®.
• Resources – loans of books, dictionaries and artefacts.
• Phone line services for parents and practitioners in a range of different languages.