UPDATE NO 223 25 November 2016

Newsletters 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 […]

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Newsletters

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 223 25 November 2016

Programme:

Topical Peer Challenge Round 9

Update:

Many thanks to Annie Maciver (West Sussex), Phil Bullingham (Southampton), Anthony Harper (Portsmouth) and Rodica Cobarzan (Kent) who this week completed a Topical Peer Challenge visit to Medway (Children in Need).

Action Required:

The next team in the field will be visiting Portsmouth (CSE) on Monday and Tuesday: best wishes to Alison Alexander (W&M); Amanda Radley (West Sussex); Lilian Dickinson (Bracknell Forest) and Yvonne Kapungu (Medway). 

Programme:

Data Benchmarking Group

Update:

Newly published on the Freely Available page of the Data Benchmarking Group are the Children’s Social Care Annual Benchmarking Reports for 2015-16.

Action Required:

These reports contain audited, previously published data and are available in Excel and Pdf formats

Reminders from previous weeks

Programme:

Leadership Development

Update:

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. 

Action Required:

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:

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

Local area SEND inspection outcome letters:

Minutes of the SEND Benchmarking Workshop held on 30 September 

UKCCIS has released some key questions for Governors.

UK Safer Internet Centre checklist

Children’s Social Care 2015-16 Annual Benchmarking (Public) v2 [Excel] and 2015-16 Annual Benchmarking (Public) v2 [PDF]

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