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Norfolk Governor’s Conference Spring 2011

Children’s Services Leadership Team briefing

“still”

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Re-organisation as a result of the “Big Conversation”

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Big Conversation – what next?• 14th February - County Council decision• 15th Feb to mid March – appointments to new

structure• March to end of May – closure of some services e.g.

Youth Services and new design for other services• June – most new teams in place• June to August – remaining teams redesigned and

new teams formed• September to next March – consultation and

implementation of year 2 plans – e.g. SEN changes

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Big Conversation – what next?• David Orsborne – Head of Integrated Education Advisory

Services PREVENTION

Traded Targeted Teaching Services

E learningHome Education

Home Access

English Language Support

Service

TravellerEducation

Service

Traded Teaching and

Learning Services

Music Service

Environment and Outdoor Learning –

Holt FSC

Educational VisitsWhitlingham OEC

Study Support

Traded Governor support

And Leadership

Headteacher support Advisers

Governor SupportServices

Health and wellBeing

+STEPS

Traded School Leadership and

Improvement Services

14 subject, Leadership

And improvement Specialists –

Guidance, Advice,Consultancy and

TrainingSpecialists

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Big Conversation – what next?• Terry Cook – Head of Educational Achievement,

Improvement and Governance INTERVENTION

Achievement and Intervention

5 senior + 3 advisers

AND The CountyHeadteacher (x6) +

The County TeacherService (x3)

Governance Development and

Improvement

4 senior + 2 advisers

Educational Standards

and assessment

2 advisersAttendance team

LAC virtual schoolAND

Early Years Team 2 advisers +

10.5 EY Improvement

Officers

Strategy for the Development of

Learning Partnerships

4 senior + 1 adviserAND

14-19 team 7.6 advisers

PLUS IACG team

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Big Conversation – what next?• Richard Snowden - Head of Admissions AND • Chris Hey – Head of Place Planning and ORGANISATION

Adviser for schoolAnd Early Years

Organisation

Capital planning And

Client Team

School and Early Years

Place Planning

Estates planning and

Information team

Head of Admissions

Admissions Teams

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“The Education Act 2011”

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Education Act 2011• Early Years provision • Powers of search (in schools and FE) • Exclusion • Repeal of duties to − give notice of detention to parents − enter into a behaviour partnership • Abolition of GTC • Requirement to undertake induction • Anonymity for teachers accused of crimes

relating to pupils • Training the workforce

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Education Act 2011

• Participation in international surveys • QCDA and Ofqual • Careers Services • Removal of duties − Removal of all schools' duty to co-operate on well-being and to have

regard to CYP Plan − removal of duty to prepare a school profile − removal of duty to appoint a SIP

• Admissions − removal of duty on LA to have an admissions forum

• School meals

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Education Act 2011• New Schools − duty on LA’s to seek proposals for an academy when a new school is required

• Governing Bodies − allows for regulations to reduce the number of categories of governor required on the governing body

of maintained schools

• School inspections − creates a category of schools, to be defined in regulation, that are exempt from routine inspections

• Funding schemes − new power to SoS to direct an LA to change any or all of a funding scheme in relation to schools

• FE Colleges and YPLA − YPLA is abolished by this bill

• Apprenticeships − requirement for SFA to prioritise apprenticeships for 16 -19 year olds, care leavers and disabled

young people under 25 or as defined by regulation − SoS becomes the issuing authority for apprenticeships certificates where no other appointed

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Education Act 2011•Academies − Don't need a specialism − Provision for 16-19 academies and PRU academies and for these academies to have

different characteristics in their funding agreements to academy schools – due to different functions

− SoS can make an Academy order for any school that is eligible for intervention − Increases circumstances in which the SoS must consider the impact on maintained

schools, from simply an additional (new) school to any academy that would change the pattern of provision – i.e. service a wider age group than previously

− Local Authority land and Academies

•Alternative Provision Academies Essentially, the Bill provision does three things: 1. It will establish a new type of Academy: the alternative provision Academy 2. It will regulate separately to enable Pupil Referral Units to seek Alternative Provision

Academy status 3. It will make Free School status available to alternative provision providers, including new

providers that are unable to meet the existing criteria for an Academy

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“Key Projects”

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Key Children’s Services Projects• Transforming our services within the new financial environment

• The Early Intervention Grant Commissioning priorities EY and Children’s Centres Parenting Services for Disabled children/young carers “Connexions” Community planning for Youth School early intervention Substance misuse etc.

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“Implications for NHS changes”

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NHS Changes

GP commissioning

Public health responsibilities

Local Health and Well-being Board

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“Improving Attendance – a reminder”

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“Improving Attendance – a reminder”

Norfolk Persistent Absence vs. England & Statistical Neighbour Averages

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“School Organisation Planning Issues”

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School Organisation planning issues

• 3 year junior schools projects• Amalgamations – including all age provision• Partnerships to federations• Clusters to Trusts• Convertor and other academies (next slide)• GNDP – for greater Norwich area (last 4 slides)

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Academies Spring 2011• Open / City• Victory / Venture / Kings Lynn / Thetford• Martham Primary Wymondham College• Springwood / Cromer / Taverham / Reepham /

Diss / Wymondham High / Wayland / +3?• University Technical College• Norwich Free School

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Joint Core Strategy

• Produced by Broadland, South Norfolk, Norwich and Norfolk County Council

• Sets out how housing and job growth targets will be met across the Norwich Policy Area

• Submitted in 2009 and included a broad-brush view of the potential need for Children’s Services provision given the scale of housing being proposed

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Main growth points

• Old Catton, Sprowston, Rackheath and Thorpe St Andrew area - 7,000 houses (rising to 10,000 after 2026)

• Hethersett – 1,000 houses• Cringleford – 1,200 houses• Easton/Costessey – 1,000 houses• Wymondham – 2,200 houses• Long Stratton – 1,800 houses

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Public Examination November 2010

• Examination which looked at the “soundness” of the Strategy. As part of this examination, the Inspector needed to see evidence that potentially affordable and feasible options had been considered for delivering Children’s Services infrastructure.

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In order to inform this examination…

• Summer Term 2010, governors invited to work up some possible models of school organisation, which reflected their local knowledge, strategic vision and imaginative thinking.