You Said – We Did

You Said – We Did

We know that you want to make sure that your voice is heard and that your concerns, feedback and ideas are listened to and acted on. So, on this page we will be sharing the comments that we’ve received and the actions that we’ve taken in response.


You said:

The Virtual School should champion the needs of young people 16+

We did:

The Virtual School now have a post 16 link, who’s job is to work with young people 16+ to help them get into education, training or employment


You said:

Give us a website

We did:

Made a website with you


You said:

Give us Mind Of My Own, we don’t like the ‘Having Your Say’ leaflets

We did:

We got Mind Of My Own for you


You said:

Hold the Annual Achievement Awards on a night where we don’t have school or college the next day

We did:

We now make sure Annual Achievement Awards are at the start of the school holidays


You said:

Please don’t call the time we spend with our family and friends contact

We did:

We now say, seeing your family and friends or family and friends’ time


You said:

We need more help with CV’s

We did:

We have added CV’s to the PEP checklist from year 10 on and included a guide to CV writing on this website. There has also been a CV writing workshop


You said:

That you preferred the junior magazine from Become and did not read the senior magazine

We did:

Become Junior is now sent to everyone 5-13 years old. We no longer send out the Become Senior magazine


You said:

That all the area teams should hold Getting to Know You Days

We did:

2017 saw the first year that all the area teams held Getting to Know You Days


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