UPDATE NO 488 14 January 2022

Family Hubs – Welcome to Carly Bain

Welcome to Carly Bain who is the newly appointed SE Regional Co-ordinator of the Family Hubs Programme. If you are interested in learning more about the project or working with her, please contact her at carly.bain@iow.gov.uk 

The post is currently funded by the DfE until December 2022, and it has been established to assist the development and enhancement of Family Hubs across the region.

upon Inspiring Leaders Aspirant DCS Programme

upon Inspiring Leaders have announced,

“We’re thrilled that we will be looking for our next cohort of Aspirant Directors Programme candidates from February 2022. Are you an aspiring inspirational leader looking to be the positive changemaker the UK’s young people can depend upon? Starting in September 2022 and running until March 2023, upon will be back with 2 more cohorts of the upon Aspirant Directors Programme.” 

There will be an online webfair on Thursday 3 February 2022, 10.00 – 11.00 to register to attend, or to receive the recording of the webfair, please click here.

For further information on the programme in the meantime, please go to the How to Apply page.

Revised memorandum of cooperation on agency social workers – deadline for responses Friday 21 January

A quick reminder that Friday 21 January is the deadline for responding to mark@markevansconsulting.co.uk with comments on the text of the revised memorandum of co-operation on agency social workers.

Following the deadline, mark will be in touch to confirm the arrangements for the simultaneoius signing on Friday 11 February. More details from Mac Heath or Mark Evans

Reforming how local authority school improvement functions are funded

On 11 January 2022, DfE published its response to the consultation about the withdrawal of the School Improvement and Monitoring Brokering grant.

It includes the timetable for implementation of its withdrawal and flexibilities about some de-delegation reporting to ESFA in 2022.

The full response is here.

KCSIE consultation on revisions for the 2022 edition

On 11 January, DfE launched a consultation on proposed revisions to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for the 2022 edition.

The closing date is 8 March 2022.

Future dates for network meetings

Lead Members Group: Expert Workshop #5: Mental Health Services for CYP. Fri 4 February 10:00. More information from Alison Michalska (contact details below)

Data Benchmarking: More information from Alastair Lee (contact details below)

Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board: More information from Rebecca Eligon (contact details below)

AD Education: Friday 4 February – 10.00am. The Children Missing Education Group meets on Monday 10 January ay 10am. More information from Chris Owen (contact details below)

AD Safeguarding: Friday 11 March 2022. More information from Mark Evans (contact details below)

QA Network: Wednesday 16 March 2022. 2pm – 5pm. More information from Amanda Meadows (contact details below)

Fostering Network: More information from Rebecca Eligon (contact details below)

SEND SE19: 25 January 2022 (LAs only) more information from Tracey Maytas (contact details below)