The Regional Improvement Plan was approved on 10 June 2024.
The 2025-2026 edition of the Regional Improvement Plan was approved in principle on 24 June 2025. It will be published here in due course.
The 2024-25 Plan
The 2024-2025 plan is an iteration of previous editions, and covers the final year of a three-year funding arrangement with DfE.
It now contains 17 workstreams reflecting the regional priorities identified in the annual round of DCS self-assessments and peer challenges
There are now 12 practice networks:
- Adoption
- Assistant Directors Education
- Assistant Directors Safeguarding
- Commissioners
- Data Benchmarking
- Early Help
- Fostering
- Kinship Care
- Lead Members
- Principal Social Workers
- Quality Assurance
- SEND
The are five projects:
- DCS self-assessment and peer challenge
- Small packages of sector-led improvement support
- Take Your Place – our future leaders’programme
- Workforce matters
- Working Together 23 – contact Richard Tyndall for further details
Governance & Reports
The SESLI Programme is managed by a Steering Group on behalf of the SE Branch of the ADCS.