Strategies

Reading Education Accessibility Strategy 2023-2026

Alternative Provision Strategic Framework 2024-2027

Reading Children in Care Sufficiency Strategy 2024-2026

Reading Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2024-2025 (PDF)

Reading Care Leavers’ Strategy (Local Offer) (PDF)

Children Looked After Placed in the Reading Area (PDF)

SEND Strategy 2022-27 (Local Offer) (PDF)

Policies

Adoption Statement of Purpose 2025-26

Alternative Provision Quality Assurance Framework Toolkit

Elective Home Education Policy & Procedure (PDF)

Reading Care Leavers’ Financial Policy (link to document on the Care Leavers’ page, Young People’s Zone)

Parents’ Guide to Elective Home Education

Children Missing Education Policy

Fixed Penalty Notice Code of Conduct (relating to school attendance)

Reading Fostering Service Privacy Notice (PDF) This is a guide for foster carers which states how we collect and use personal information.

Reading Fostering Service Statement of Purpose 2025-26

Supporting Children with Medical Needs Policy

Private Fostering Policy & Practice Guidance

Private Fostering Statement of Purpose

BFfC Privacy Notice

Post-16 Home to School Transport Statement 2025-2026

School Transport Policy

Subject Access Requests (Reading Borough Council)

Other Reports

BFfC Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) Annual report 2023-2024

Ofsted and CQC join Local Area SEND Inspection for Reading July 2021 (PDF) 
(Report as web page which can be read using ReachDeck)

Reading’s Youth Justice Plan 2025-26