UPDATE NO 271 06 October 2017

Data Benchmarking News

The 2016-17 Provisional Annual Social Care Benchmarking report has been published on the restricted area of the Benchmarking pages. The Provisional data is provided by LAs as a snapshot on the 31 March 2017, a further version of this report using the published CIN Census and SSDA903 data will be published in November.

This report contains restricted data, and so is only available via the password protected part of the site. All members of the regional data benchmarking group have access to this part of the site. If you wish to gain access for yourself, please contact Alastair Lee (details below).

SE DCS Peer Challenge 2018

Save the Date Wednesday 22 November. 

There will be a training and preparation session on Wednesday 22 Novemberfor hosts, visitors and observers who are planning to participate in the 2018 SE DCS Peer Challenge. We ask all those planning to participate in SE DCS Peer Challenge 2018 who are new to the process to save the date Wednesday 22 November. The challenge sessions will take place early in 2018, and the fieldwork will follow. Please contact Anna Wright (details below) for more information on the programme and the training session.

Entries in Bold are confirmed; entries in italics are provisional

Triad	Host	Visitor	Observer	Challenge Session Date	Fieldwork Date
1	Oxfordshire or Milton Keynes	Milton Keynes or Portsmouth	Portsmouth or Oxfordshire	to be arranged	to be arranged
2	West Berkshire or East Sussex	East Sussex or Southampton	Southampton or West Berkshire	to be arranged	to be arranged
3	Hampshire	Windsor and Maidenhead	Brighton and Hove	to be arranged	to be arranged
4	West Sussex	Bracknell Forest	Kent	to be arranged	to be arranged

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)