UPDATE NO 175 04 December 2015

Data Benchmarking Group

This week, new benchmarking reports have been made available to members of the Data Benchmarking Group via the restricted section of this website. The reason they are restricted is because they contain un-audited performance data and the benchmarking is available only to those who have signed and returned the data sharing protocol.

Now available: (Restricted) Adoption Benchmarking Report 2015-16 Q2 v2 (with updated information) and for the first time: (Restricted) Quarterly Benchmarking Report 2015-16 Q2 v1. Your Data Benchmarking Group representative has a log-on and password to access the restricted part of the site. There are still three outstanding data protocols from Buckinghamshire, Reading and Surrey. For more information please contact Alastair Lee (see contact box below).

Memorandum of Cooperation

New documents are now available in draft following the meeting in mid-November. You can access these via the Live Projects button above (then select Memorandum of Co-operation).

Please send all responses to Mark Evans (see contact box below for details) before 21 December, or via your AD Safeguarding at the network meeting on Friday 11 December

Early Help

The project recently had its last meeting and we are awaiting amendments to the proposed framework. The final document will be presented to SE ADCS in the new year by Patrick Leeson for their agreement.

Please can you check that we have up to date contacts on the Early Help page (access via the Live Projects button above) as there is a proposal to start regular Early Help network meetings in the new year.The first one will launch the framework and begin the discussion about the collection of relevant benchmarking data.

Date for third workshop in early 2016 to be announced.

Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and Data Benchmarking

One aspect of the benchmarking that still needs addressing is consultation with SEND Service Managers about how they might use the reports. The question being “Is this data, in this format what you need to benchmark and help develop your services?”. Tracey Maytas and Alastair Lee (contact details in box below) have agreed to take this forward.

SESLIP Steering Group meets next on Monday 11 January 2016; SE ADCS meets on Friday 15 January 2016

At the recent SE ADCS meeting there was an initial discussion about the content, budget and subscription levels for the SESLI Programme in 2016-17. The SESLIP Steering Group meets next on 11 January 2016, and it will make recommendations to the next SE ADCS meeting on 15 January 2016.

There are new pressures on the budget arising from (among other things):  the success of the Leadership Development, and the spending of the inherited legacy funds (£75k over two years)  calls on the benchmarking group to publish more suites of indicators  the success of the early help and SEND groups  demand to further develop the Children’s Social Care Workforce initiative. If you have any thoughts about what the programme should include (or exclude) and how the subscription level might be pitched, please contact Janette Karklins or Stuart Gallimore before 11 January 2016. A reminder that the current subscription level is £12,500 per county and £6,250 per unitary.

Wednesday 16 December 2016, 10am Crawley Library

The next meeting of the South East Regional Data Network will be on Wednesday 16th December in the Longley Room in Crawely Library.

Please send suggestions for the next meeting’s agenda to Alastair Lee (see contact box below).

Friday 11 December 2015 next meeting of the AD Safeguarding Network

We will be joined by the AD Safeguarding Network from the East of England Region and will need a larger room than usual. Time: 9.30 for 10am start. Venue: Mary Sumner House, Westminster, SW1P 3RB (close to The Abbey Centre)

For more information go to the AD Safeguarding Network page via the Contacts, Links & Reports button at the top of this page. If you have any items you would like to add to the agenda, please contact Mark Evans.

Friday 18 December 2015 next meeting of the AD Education Network

The next meeting will include an item presented by Heather Hadfield (see contacts box below) from the South East Grid for Learning

All meetings at the Abbey Community Centre, Westminster 10.30 for 11.00 start. AD Education (or equivalent) colleagues to note these dates for the diary. For more information go to the AD Education Network page via the Contacts, Links & Reports button at the top of this page.

20 and 21 January 2016 – Peer Challenge

The next visit will be to Windsor and Maidenhead on the topic of Referral and Assessment. It will be led by Barbara Peacock (Medway), accompanied by Liz Rugg (ESCC), Vikki Blakeston (MKC) and Emma Cockerell (Brighton and Hove).

Thanks to Janette Karklins (Bracknell Forest), Julia Katherine (Portsmouth), Sam Barrington (W&M) and Claire O’Leary (Wokingham) for their time visiting Milton Keynes last week.

3rd February 2016

Leadership Developement

A second Train the Trainer course is being planned for 3rd February 2016. All enquiries to Di Smith please (see contact box below).