DAPH Update - Issue 3 Autumn Term 2015

   Autumn 2015 - Issue 3  1 3 November 2015

DAPH Autumn Briefing 2015

Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to this week’s DAPH Autumn Briefing at The Tiverton Hotel which we hope you found both useful and informative.

An online evaluation form is now available on the DAPH Website. Please take a couple of minutes to complete this, as your feedback is important to us and will help to inform our current work streams and to shape our Spring Briefing and other future events.

Most of the presentations are also now available to download from the website - see the links below and note that Richard Light HMI Ofsted's presentation will be advertised in due course.

Presentation: Schools Health Education Unit Survey and EH4MH Update from Becky Carmichael, Public Health Specialist (Children, Young People and Families) and Sarah Lewis, Seconded Operational Lead, Virgincare

Presentation: Effective Leadership in a MAT by Dr Nick Capstick, member of the Regional Schools Commissioner office's Headteacher Board and Executive Principal of The White Horse Federation

DAPH Spring Conference 2016

13 & 14 January at The Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren

A reminder that this conference is aimed at Middle Leaders and New or Aspiring Headteachers and will offer delegates the opportunity to look closely at aspects of school leadership. Across the two days attendees will hear two inspirational key note speakers, work in small focussed groups led by NLEs/SLEs and hear the latest Ofsted updates from a regional HMI.

Please discuss this event with your leadership teams as part of their training and development and complete the online booking form.

Confirmed Speakers: Professor Guy Claxton  -  Richard Gerver  - Mark Lindfield HMI 

Read More>> Flyer and Speaker Profiles       |      Online Booking Form

Options: 2-day Residential £250 -  2 day Non-Residential £200

Reservations are now being taken for the
DAPH Annual School Leadership Conference 2016

Further details regarding pricing options to follow but for now, register your place by completing the ONLINE BOOKING FORM

The event is taking place at The Saunton Sands Hotel on 13th and 14th October 2016. Details of keynote speakers and seminars will follow in due course.

NEW>> DAPH Spring Briefings 2016

SEND will be the main agenda item for our Spring events and we have received confirmation that a representative from the Standard’s and Testing Agency will attend on the morning of the Tiverton event to update on changes to testing and assessment in KS1 & KS2 from 2016 followed by Q&As.

Dates and venues have been confirmed as:-

Tuesday 2 February 2016 at Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre

Thursday 11 February 2016 at The Tiverton Hotel, Tiverton                  Book online

Guidance on Summer Born Children

Guidance for schools has been produced by DCC Admissions Read More>>

Parents of summer-born children – with birthdays between 1 April and 31 August – is available on the DCC School Admissions website - see guidance about delayed admission to reception here.

School Leadership Support Service (SLSS)  The School Leadership Support Service offers a personal and confidential service to all school leaders via telephone and email during term time. Read more >> 01392 380518 or 07970 905511   slss-mailbox@devon.gov.uk

Education Funding Agency (EFA) e-bulletins

The Education Funding Agency (EFA) e-bulletins are issued weekly in term time.

e-bulletin Issues 105 - 107 dated October/November 2015

Click above to access both versions for (1) academies and (2) colleges, schools, local authorities and other providers.

To subscribe to these bulletins email EFA.bulletin@education.gsi.gov.uk

Headlines

Read the latest issue of Headlines from Sue Clarke, Head of Education and Learning dated
10 November 2015, and also link to past issues.

Click to view the latest news from Headteacher magazine

DCC School Crossing Patrols - Update DAPH has been advised that a member of the Road Casualty Reduction team will get in touch with those schools currently on their books as having a patrol, a vacant site or a recently disestablished site.

Those schools will be consulted on their preferences for the future of the service, including the principal questions asked in the DAPH survey (i.e. regarding a user-pays model, delivered by a third party).

DCC remain committed to continuing their discussions with Devon Norse as a potential third party concurrent with the new survey and in advance of the final Cabinet report (this is because the arrangements, if that route is followed, are complex and time consuming so it makes sense to continue with the groundwork albeit in advance of a Cabinet decision).

The Cabinet report will be scheduled for January and formal actions towards an approved goal will commence after that.  For further details, please comtact

Jeremy Phillips | Road Casualty Reduction Team Manager |  jeremy.phillips@devon.gov.uk

Devon Remembers WW1 archive collection

Were you involved in a First World War community project in 2014? However small your project, the Devon Remembers Heritage Project is keen to include your findings in a new WW1 archive collection.

DAPH Representation

A revised Representation Chart is available to view/download on the DAPH Website, showing the scope and role of DAPH within the local context.

DfE Open consultation: Local area SEND consultation

This is a consultation on Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission’s proposals for inspecting how effectively local areas fulfil their responsibilities towards children and young people who are disabled and/or have special educational needs under section 20 of the Children Act 2004. The consultation document sets out the principles under which the 2 inspectorates propose to undertake these joint inspections.

The DfE is seeking the widest possible range of views from those who have an interest in, or expertise relating to disability and special educational needs. We particularly want to hear from disabled young people and those who have special educational needs and their parents and carers.

Read More>>  Consultation closes at 4 January 2016 11:30pm

DAPH strongly encourages all schools to respond to the consultation.

DfE Open Consultation: Intervening in failing, underperforming and coasting schools

The DfE is seeking views on the government’s proposals to address underperformance in local-authority-maintained schools. Read More>> 

This consultation closes at 18 December 2015 5:00pm

View the latest Autumn term 'Thinking aHEAD' HROne newsletter.

Briefing sheet on Exempt Early Years Provision

Please find link below to a Briefing Sheet prepared by the Department for Education for your information.

When attending meetings of Devon Education Forum (DEF), its sub-groups and other statutory or working groups, DAPH Representatives provide a summary of key messages and issues affecting the primary phase.

For full minutes of recent meetings of the DEF and LA working groups which report to DEF please visit the DEF website and follow the appropriate links.

Details of Membership on DEF with effect from 1 September 2015 are available here >>

Date of next DEF :- 18 January 2016.

Agenda and minutes of previous meetings  available here >>

To contact the Forum: schools.forum@devon.gov.uk         Tel: 01392 382305

To view the objectives, Terms of Reference and minutes of meetings for Schools' Finance Group, which is a sub-group of Devon Education Forum, visit the SFG Website.

111 MPs petition Prime Minister demanding fairer school funding One hundred and eleven Members of Parliament have signed a letter to the Prime Minister demanding that he sticks to his pledge to introduce a new national funding formula in the near future.

The letter, which was masterminded by f40 Vice Chair, Graham Stuart MP, was handed over in the House of Commons. It calls on the government to implement a fairer funding formula along the lines of proposals prepared by f40 which, from 2017-18, would see funding geared towards improving educational standards rather than perpetuating an inequitable system.   Read More>>

To view the objectives, Terms of Reference and minutes of meetings for School Organisation, Capital and Admissions (SOCA), which is a sub-group of Devon Education Forum, visit the SOCA website.

The latest issue of Keeping Devon's Children Safe from Devon County Council was issued on 27 October 2015  Read more >>                      View back copies

Child Sexual Exploitation – Communications Strategy Overview (Phase 1)

A new campaign, with the support of partner agencies, has been launched to raise awareness among parents, teachers and carers about the signs of CSE in young people. 

This is a fairly low key campaign and is the first phase of a year of planned communications around this topic.  Each phase will focus on a different target audience.

Please support the campaign by spreading the word and distribution of materials:

Download 'Signs of CSE Leaflet'      Read More>> on the Devon and Cornwall Police website

Devon Safeguarding Children Board Read the latest issue of the DSCB Newsletter dated October 2015

Babcock 'Keeping Children Safe' Newsletter - Autumn 2015

View the first edition of the Keeping Children Safe newsletter, which includes a summary of information and relevant links on:-

• Links to the Preventing Radicalisation policy
  
• Workshops to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP) - free training available, for more information and to book Read More>>
• Briefing Paper on Counter Extremism policy in English Schools
• Link to the Devon Prevent Protocol
• Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Workshops - various dates and venues, book via the CPD Online link
• Safeguarding Audit - this years audit was sent to schools via email from the address safeguardingaudits@babcockinternational.com on Tuesday 8th September Completed audits to be returned by 31st December 2015

SEND Reference Group – please forward the names and contact email address of any SENDCos who wish to be added to a rota to attend Moderation of E3 meetings. This is a new initiative will offer SENDCos a CPD opportunity to participate in a moderation panel overviewing applications for Element 3 funding.

The first meeting is taking place next week on 18 November (9.30am to 12.00pm in the Exe Suite at Larkbeare House). However, future dates of meetings will be available, allocated and advised by the 0-25 team in due course. Click to view format of meetings.

Email expressions of interest and SENDCo contact details to daph@devon.gov.uk

Delegates who attended Floyd Woodrow's 'Leadership and Elite Performance' keynote at the DAPH Annual School Leadership Conference will be pleased to hear that the Elite! books have now arrived here in the DAPH Office and we hope to distribute them to those particular schools during next week.

Devon Association of Primary Headteachers
DAPH Office – Venture House,
One Capital Court,
Bittern Road,
Sowton Industrial Estate,
Exeter EX2 7FW
Tel: 01392 380518
Email: daph@devon.gov.uk