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Education Supervision Orders (ESO's)

Information & Guidance

1.	Trainers Notes. (146kb)
2.	Handouts and Equipment checklist. (22kb)
3.	ESO Practioner Training suggested time-table. (133kb)
4.	The Welfare Checklist. (24kb)
5.	Considering an ESO Feedback Form. (27kb)
6.	Case Study Leon aged 15. (146kb)
7.	Case Study Kayleigh aged 10. (34kb)
8.	ESO Practioner Training Presentation. (126kb)
9.	C1 Application for an ESO Order. (328kb)
10.	CB3 Serving the ESO Forms. (170kb)
11.	C9 Statement of Service. (29kb)
12.	C17 Supplement for an Application for an ESO. (14kb)
13.	C17A Supplement for an Application for an Extension of an ESO. (11kb)
14.	Download all the above files in one ZIP file. (603kb)

Back in 2006 the National Children's Bureau received funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to run a project with an aim to increase the capacity of local authorities to deliver education supervision orders. ESOs have been around since 1991 but in many local authorities they have fallen out of use; consequently there is not much information and guidance, or indeed practice evidence, available to support their use.

The ESO project involved a year-long action learning programme bringing together practitioners from 13 local authorities, all at different levels of expertise in using ESOs. The project is now finished and there are two documents arising from it:

A report on the findings and recommendations arising from the project and; A practice guidance document which sets ESOs in the post ECM world;
A set of training materials, including: -	Presentations Case studies Handouts Training plans and Trainers notes

Unfortunately, there has been a great deal of misinformation about ESOs – some of it bizarre and/or contradictory – which hopefully the new practice guidance and the real life case studies that are part of it will now help put right. ESOs are not a soft option but a serious intervention into family life and should not be used lightly. They also require skilled and professional practitioners. However, although ESOs are not the answer to everything, the project has shown them to be a very useful and effective tool.

All the above is now available free for you to to download via ESO Practice Guidance download (810KB) and should be extremely useful for those enlightened local authorities wishing to pick-up on the latest advice from National Strategies and organise refresher training on using ESOs

Questions and Feedback

If you have any questions about the NCB project or the guidance, please contact Jacqui Newvell at jnewvell@ncb.org.uk.