UPDATE NO 251 19 May 2017

Supporting Radical Efficiency in Children’s Services

Rosemary Perry (contact details below under “Adoption”) has been progressing this project (using Council published information) to research initiatives currently underway across the south east to find efficiencies in children’s social care.  This will be collated and discussed with the AD Group in June. As well as searching for examples of demand management initiatives (reducing the flow of new costs entering the system) she is also looking out for outflow management initiatives (encouraging step-down and step-out of costs already in the system).  

Special thanks to Liz Rugg (East Sussex) who has shared details of the East Sussex Thrive project which was undertaken a few years ago.  If any other colleagues have examples of successful efficiency projects, past and present, which can be incorporated into the research, please contact Rosemary Perry (details below).

Topical Peer Challenge Round 10

Bookings for Topical Peer Challenge Round 10 are now open. The first taker is Wokingham (Virtual School).

Please let Richard Tyndall (contact details below) know if you would like to join in Round 10, the field work for which will be undertaken in late 2017 or early 2018.

What’s the Protocol? – 1 June 2017

Paula Whitehouse of West Midlands SLIP writes

“Dear Colleague, our national event on managing the agency market is on 1 June. We’ve got an interesting and useful spread of people signed up so far, and we’d like to have more, especially from our more northern regions. We’ve got space for several reps from the regions covering the different disciplines. There are some real possibilities for more work nationally as well as regionally on this and it’ll be stronger if we have people from all corners of the country. Can you please encourage via your appropriate networks?”

A flyer for the event can be downloaded here. 

Any colleagues considering attending this event should first contact Mark Evans (details below) who is coordinating the South East MoC. (More details of our project can be seen here)

Leadership Development

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

We are 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. Courses can also be delivered with adult services and/or for schools. 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)