UPDATE NO 183 12 February 2016

SE SEND Benchmarking Workshop 4 Tuesday 9th February

A successful workshop was held and a revised (v2) data collection template has been issued for the March 2016 data.

Please can you return the revised (v2) data collection template to joseph.hutchings@eastsussex.gov.uk by 31st March 2016

Coaching to Improve Performance – Train the Trainer 14 March

14 March 2016  Easthampstead Park RG40 3DF 

The last opportunity for LA’s who have participated in the in-house course to send along up to 5 delegates to our Train the Trainer Course designed to support LA’s to embed coaching within  their organisation.

We were delighted to hear from the East Sussex team who came on last year’s training that to date they have trained a further 106 colleagues.

This one day course  is aimed at ensuring LA’s will have the capacity and capability to deliver the two day ’Coaching to Improve Performance’ programme themselves and delegates will receive all the resources we use on the programme together with a training notes and the opportunity to practice the delivery of the programme.

Delegates should have attended the full two day programme and have training experience.    

To register delegates and to receive further details please contact Di Smith mob 07960 513474 tel 01243 514805  

SEND Ofsted/CQC inspections

There will be an event on 10th March in Winchester looking at the pilot SEND Ofsted/CQC inspections. Hants will be feeding back about the process and experience. 

Please contact Tracey Maytas (details below) for further information

Early Help

The Early Help project has published a draft Evaluation Framework and Literature Review.

Please can you give the draft document your consideration in advance of the next SEADCS meeting, when the question of its adoption and publication will be discussed. If you have any questions, please contact Patrick Leeson.

Monday 15 February – Local Authority Research Consortium (LARC) – Round 7 Now Open

The 7^th round of the Local Authority Research Consortium (LARC) will commence in April 2016. LARC is a collaborative research initiative, sector-led and focused on generating and sharing knowledge to support service and practice development. LARC 7 is co-facilitated by Research in Practice and National Children’s Bureau (NCB), and is chaired by Janette Karklins, (DCS Bracknell Forest). 

Two topics have been shortlisted: Young Carers and Peer-on-Peer Harmful Sexual Behaviour. Local authorities wishing to take part in LARC 7 are invited to express an interest in their preferred topic. See the 2016 consultation document(PDF download, 208KB) for more detail on these topics. 

LARC operates a not-for-profit model. The maximum fee for participating will be £5,800. However, as the costs are divided equally, the fee will be £5,000 if more than 15 LAs participate. This fee covers research support; development of research tools; workshops to provide practical support and share learning; analysis; reporting and dissemination of local and national level evidence. 

Local authorities wishing to express an interest in participating should complete theParticipation Form (Word 2003 .doc file, 108KB) and return to chris.green@rip.org.ukby15 Feb 2016.

Wednesday 2 March – Memorandum of Cooperation – Guildford Institute

The next meeting of the MoC Implementation Group is scheduled to take place on the 2nd March 1.15p.m -3.15 p.m. at The Guildford Institute (Ward Street, Guildford GU1 4LH). This will be a critical meeting in the development of the MoC and we encourage all authorities to attend. The aim of the meeting will be to finalise the arrangements for Phase 2 of the MoC, which will include:

• Launch date
• Agency pay rates
• Cooling off period for SE permanent staff moving to agency work
• The outline of the SE Regional Workforce Plan

Please contact Mark@markevansconsulting.co.uk to confirm attendance for representatives from your authority, if you are unable to send someone please contact Mark to arrange a time to discuss your authorities views about development of the next stage to of the MoC.

Thanks to those who have already completed the MoC Phase 2consultation we are working to collate your views to plan the next stages of the implementation. We want to get as complete a picture as possible,  so if you haven’t returned it yet there is still time. The consultation is contained at the end of the MoC Phase 2 November 2015 update. We will include any responses returned by 19 February 2016.