capturing quality and excellence the grand clitheroe 3 august 2011

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What value could a regional agency add to yourwork with children and young people?

Audit, information and advocacy:

Louder, joined-up, powerful advocacy

Responding to numbers and figures for government (and shifting their thinking on

how quality should be assessed and measured)

Profile raising:

A promotional, recruitment and support network

Quality and excellence, CPD and networking:

Supporting professionalism and providing networks that can support each other(either through themes, activities or programmes)

Practitioner networks / support

Create a network of practitioners

Recognise and promote high quality activity

Dissemination of learning regional conferences; publications

Take learning from the ground up and influence the top

Development of best practice

CPD opportunities

Appropriate training

A critical friend

Connecting sectors, making new links:

An honest broker

Broker partnerships that inspire, provoke and challenge

Create a discourse between the arts and education sectors which helps them tounderstand needs and solutions in a language they both understand

Coherence common practice, language and vision:

A regional strategy

Overview

Encourage a more joined-up approach to delivery and progression routes

Children, young people and families:

Help set programme agendas in line with children and young peoples priorities /needs

Sharing and debate event: Capturing Greatness:

Quality and Excellence, The Grand (Clitheroe),3 August 2011


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How would a fantastic bridge organisation operate?

A listening organisation

Supportive and respectful

Assets- and solutions-focused

Trusting

Fair, objective, open, accessible and unbiased

Imaginative

Light-touch; simple but effective

Fearless

Themed table discussions: What is our ideal futurewhen it comes to quality and excellence? Whatskills and resources do we already have? How canwe work together to achieve our goal?

What skills and resources do we have already?

A broad range of artists

Increased experience of artists/practitioners in school setting

Inspirational practitioners

Arts award

Diverse range of activities

Creating young people-led artistic programmes

Opportunities to take the lead

Opportunities to participate in arts activities

Contact youth progression

Tate system (dukes) creating youth leaders

Commitment to quality

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Collecting feedback of personal experience

Listening to practitioners/participants

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: Funders /stakeholders

We must do this...

Improve the sectors ability to respond to communities needs

Have a commitment to learning through delivery

All parties have equal involvement in generating the project - community

first then partner next Ensure we have well researched contexts and clear briefs to the sectors.

Wed like to do this...

Have a sector wide peer review that goes beyond the 'relationships'

Have repeat projects where we have had success

Have a system to demonstrate your 'trustworthiness' to schools who don'tknow you

Have a resource of freelancers you can go to and depend upon

Help define what 'TRUST' means

Ask stakeholders for perceptions of end product and outcomes.

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: Children andyoung people

We must do this...

Define the results - the power of the arts in a broader context

Define what is quality and what the outcomes should be

Advocate young people and their voice

Connect one place to the next. Bring all these things together and matchoutcomes

Use the right language - make the offer understandable

Focus on outcomes - make that more effective for children and young

people Listen to the practitioners - what are their needs

Invest in practitioners - frontline workforce - invest in their practice

How can we work together to achieve our ideal future?: North West artsand cultural organisations

We must do this...

Have a commitment to quality

Staff development and training ensuring quality in workforce

Commitment to bringing out the best in children and young people Consult and collaborate with children and young people

Not be afraid to fail.

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Wed like to do this...

Consult with other cultural organisations

We could develop consistent and coherent practices of excellences that wouldencourage user engagement and recognition and aid partnerships.

Wouldnt it be great if...?

We could get a nationally recognised quality product that makes useligible for a 'kitemark'

Our work was recognised at senior government level and funded forlonger than three years

Longer term funding levels to ensure sector mobility, job retention andfluidity of opportunities.

What should Curious Minds be thinking about ordoing as a bridge organisation? What challengesare we likely to face and how can we overcomethem?

Curious Minds think about

Making the case win the argument around measurement to government

translation and bilingual in your communications Open up debate Articulation of benefits accessible Be clear on promise, declaration of intent, simple clear and brave, accountabilityon how met, making that widely available. Include museums and galleries in the conversation support decision - wishes?to engage with us. Afford it the right time realistic around what can be done in the time we have milestones time based aims. Capitalise on resources that are already there You said we did in response Dont compromise

Young people at core what is their route in how does it feed in?

What can we do or you as a bridge organisation?

Practically our awareness, identify opportunities, facilitates debates, invite us. Disseminate funding opportunities. Audit whats out there. Be an oracle we talk to you you give us the editorial. As a bridge organisation, dont over subscribe how you can be selective. Using the bridge metaphor whats the middle bit? Is it about getting people to subscribe? Offering different services, signposting.

You are under real pressure the conduit. Whats the bold entrance? We want you to be reactive early.

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Reflect what you see regionally. Broker relationships Be realistic, have courage. Understand the landscape. Do well what you can do well, make connections, will ACE do this?

Funders and Stakeholders

Demanding return on investment

Community investment

Build a set of values

Ensure you have informed responses

Have collective courage to make decisions

Always understand the content of your offer is triangulated involving: Participants- Practitioners - Observers. Make sure all understand how this looks - what role eachparty plays in that structure and how to measure the level of success and quality withinit.

Children and Young People

Develop pathways for children and young people

Appreciating the wide range of age and ability of children and young people

Be aware of the kind of provision needed to ensure progression through arts and

culture by children and young people

Understand and utilise young people so you can understand 'quality' because

young people are truly the only people who can articulate the levels of quality around -

they have experienced lots of different levels of this currently Ensuring young people know what they are getting from a bridge organisation -

or how visible you are in that role - important to avoid confusion of where young people

turn to for information and provision

Ensuring part of your programme is developed through talking to young people,

not enforced upon young people - it will only work if young people know they have

ownership and are being listened to.

Arts and Cultural Organisations

We can build a nationally recognised framework

Develop a 'kitemark' that stakeholders and funders recognise as a

regional/national recognition of good model and practice We can develop a consistency of practice and offer across the region

Have a cultural offer in the region that is a need

A product that is co-produced with young people - a product that is developed forand by young people

Cultural organisations should attempt to be represented on school boards andsimilar - organisations need to have respect for this and protect time that this importantrole takes up

As well as co-producing with young people we should also be attempting to co-produce with communities that surround our organisations.

Acrostics and Haiku:

Our region is rich

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If we share what we do wellWe can achieve more

The sector it waitsFor the Bridge to emergeAnd reconvene us

I dont want more wordsJust make my job easierChallenge me to reach

Young people value

Opportunities to growQuality prevails

Values-ledInspirationalSignpostingIdiosyncraticOpenNurturing

PassionAdvocacyRigourTenaciousNot BureaucraticEvolvingRadical

W elcomeE veryone on

B oard

V aluingO pportunitiesI nspirational, inspiring, inspireC larityE quality

C onnectivityU nderstandingR igorousI n yer face

O ptimisticU ncompromisingS uccessful

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M agnificent measuringI mpact integrityN avigateD angerousS uccess

C urious MindsR eaching andE ngagingA nyoneT rying to

I nnovate creativeV entures ofE xcellence

B uildingR elationshipsI nspiringD evelopmentG rowingE vidence

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