UPDATE NO 315 17 August 2018

2018-19 DCS Peer Challenge Arrangements

The recent DCS meeting agreed to carry on with the development of the “Trial Run” Regional Improvement Plan (The restricted v1.7 now available to DCSs only).  

The SESLIP team is preparing missing sections on continuing and new SESLIP improvement activities as well as ensuring co-ordination with the PiP and LGA support programmes.

Thanks to Brighton and Hove, Hampshire, Kent, Milton Keynes and West Berkshire for returning signed copies of the memorandum of undertanding which sets out the rationale for particpation in the SESLI Programme and the Peer Challenges in particular. For details please contact Isabelle Gregory (details below)

For more information please contact Anna Wright or Richard Tyndall (details below).

We are also starting to make the detailed arrangements for the peer challenge of self-assessment arrangements that will culminate in the Regional Improvement Summit on 22 March 2019 – please save this date for DCSs and Lead Members.

Also please save the date 30 November 2018 for DCSs and management team members for the regional training and preparation day. Please contact Anna Wright for more details, and Isabelle Gregory to book your places. 

Thanks to Brighton and Hove, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth, West Berkshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham for sharing Annual Conversation letters and to Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Milton Keynes, Slough CST, Southampton, West Berkshire, West Sussex and Wokingham for sharing their self-assessments. These documents are all available from the restricted DCS-only section of the website.

For access to this page, and to supply further reports, please contact Isabelle Gregory (details below). Thanks to Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire who have submitted their reports during Isabelle’s leave; we will catch up soon.