UPDATE NO 207 05 August 2016

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A brief summary of the main headlines and highlights for this week are shown below. Any tools, templates or documents needed for the actions required are provided here also. If you would like to know more about these workstreams or the others in the Programme, click on the main section icons shown above. At SESLIP we are always on the look-out for good ideas that might be better implemented regionally rather than locally. If you have any suggestions, please contact Richard Tyndall, SESLI Programme Manager.

UPDATE NO 207 05 August 2016

Programme:

Self Evaluation Framework 2016

Update:

The South East ADCS meeting on 15 July 2016 approved the programme for a re-launched Self Evaluation Framework including a strong element of Peer Challenge.

The SEF process is open to all local authorities/children’s services trusts in the south east who choose to sign the Memorandum of Understanding.

The training/orientation sessions have been moved from September to November to allow colleagues a bit more lead time. Please reserve either 2 or 11 November (at Easthampstead Park Conference Centre). More details about who should attend which day at the Self Evaluation Framework 2016 page

Action Required:

Work is underway now (from July 2016 onwards) to secure participants commitment and to identifying those who wish to be “hosts” in the first round. Southampton have joined Portsmouth as volunteers to undertake the self-evaluation. Milton Keynes have offered themselves as observers this year (in anticipation of an Ofsted visit). I look forward to receiving further responses very soon.

The template for the Self Evaluation Framework 2016 is available here

For a further discussion about the programme please contact Richard Tyndall (details below) in the first instance.

Reminders from previous weeks

Programme:

SEND Benchmarking Workshop

Update:

The next SEND benchmarking workshop will be held in Crawley Library on Friday 30 September (10-3). Here is the March 2016 SEND databenchmarking commentary. Here is the pdf version of the 2015-16 Annual SEND benchmarking data report and here is the excel version.

Action Required:

For more information, please contact Tracey Maytas or Alastair Lee (details below)

Programme:

Topical Peer Challenge Round 9

Update:

Topical Peer Challenge Round 9 has now closed with seven participants (some carried over from Round 8):

Bracknell Forest (LSCB); Kent (Adolescent Support Teams and Edge-of-Care Work); Medway (CiN); Portsmouth (CSE) 28&29 November; Southampton (tbc); West Sussex (MASH); Windsor and Maidenhead (Corporate Parenting).

The team to visit Portsmouth in November is now complete: thank you to Alison Alexander, Amanda Radley, Lilian Dickinson and Yvonne Kapungu for offering their time.

Action Required:

The planning grid is begining to fill up with confirmed names and dates. I look forward to receiving further confirmations from colleagues involved.

I am also recruiting volunteers who would like to go on my “reserve list” of potential Peer Challenge visitors that I can call on to fill vacancies on the planned grid. If you would like to be considered for this list, please contact Richard Tyndall (details below)

Programme:

Leadership Development

Update:

Southampton have signed up for the Step up to Leadership course in September 2016

We continue to offer our successful portfolio of Leadership Development Courses all of which have been positively evaluated by delegates.

This year we have added a new course recently piloted in Hampshire and IoW. The senior team attended a one-dayCoaching to Improve Performance workshop to ensure the Directorate were fully conversant with the training undertaken by their three cohorts of managers on two-day programme and to develop their own coaching skills to use in their own performance management roles.

We are also offering LAs the opportunity to train their own trainers for all our courses. Our aim is to increase the capacity and capability across the region  to ensure future sustainability within LAs.

Action Required:

A new departure for us has been running these training courses for adult services and for schools so please contact Di Smith, details below, if this is of interest to you. 

All courses are run in-house in the LA who provides the venue. Each course is accompanied by a range of training resources for the delegates including a comprehensive handbook. The current courses on offer are as follows and details of each course and the costs for each can be found by downloading the April 2016 Leadership Development Prospectus

Coaching to Improve Performance

Embedding a Coaching Culture

Leading Change in Times of Austerity

Step Up to Leadership   

We can also arrange one-to-one coaching, especially to support newly appointed 2nd and 3rd tier managers

If you require further details or wish to book a course please get in touch with Di Smith (contact details below)

Tools & Templates

SESLIP Leadership Development Prospectus

The MoC area of the Seslip website now includes the latest versions of key documents, including the:

Local Government Association (LGA) and the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) Joint Briefing on the commissioning of health visiting services 

A Charter for Early Intervention in Policing has been published by the Early Intervention Foundation – the Early Intervention Academy for Police Leaders 

Action research into improvement in local children’s services: A project undertaken by the ISOS Partnership and commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA), has sought to answer two central questions:

    • 1. What are the key enablers of (and barriers to) improvement in local children’s services?
    • 2. How can the system as a whole facilitate and support improvement in local children’s services?

Social Care Benchmarking data collection – 2016-17 Q1 and provisional Annual 2015-16 Template

For further infomation on refugees and unaccompanied children visit: LGA – National or SECouncils – Regional

Local area SEND inspection outcome letters: Bolton and Brighton and Hove published 14 July 2016; and Gloucestershire published 3 August 2016.

Ofsted’s Consultation: future of social care inspection

Presentation: future of social care inspection – Lisa Pascoe, Ofsted’s Deputy Director, Social Care – Inspection Policy and Development, gave this presentation at the Association of Directors of Children’s Services this month. The presentation looks at leadership and the social care inspection consultation.

There are new videos from Eleanor Schooling, Ofsted’s National Director, Social Care, to support this consultation. She talks about the proposed changes to social care inspection and how the changes may affect local authorities. The consultation closes on 9 September.

Contact Details

S.E. Region SEND Network Programme Co-ordinator: Sheelagh Sullivan (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

sheelagh.sullivan@outlook.com

South East Grid for Learning – Consortium Manager: Krista Pickering (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

krista.pickering@segfl.org.uk

07872 014083

SESLI Programme Manager: Richard Tyndall (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

richard.tyndall@richardtyndall.co.uk

07880 787007

CSC Workforce, PSW and AD Safeguarding Network Lead: Mark Evans (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

Mark@markevansconsulting.co.uk

07803 147072

Data Benchmarking: Luke Ede (South East Sector-Led Improvement Programme)

Luke.ede@eastsussex.gov.uk

07925 148597