Autumn Term - 27 November 2015     Issue 4

DAPH Spring Conference 2016

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

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Due to the success of the 2015 event, preparations are well underway for the next DAPH Spring Conference. Across the two days (Wednesday morning to Thursday afternoon), delegates will explore key themes including innovation, leadership, partnership working and personal development through keynote speakers and thematic workshops led by NLEs/SLEs. The opportunity to network, debate and share experiences will be built into the programme on both days, promoting new enthusiasm and ideas to share in the workplace.

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. 

HOW TO BOOK    |    Online Booking Form    |    Read More>> Flyer    

Booking options: 2-day Residential £250    |    2 day Non-Residential £200

Confirmed Speakers for 2016 are:-

Professor Guy Claxton Visiting Professor of Education, King's College London Guy Claxton is the author of What’s the Point of School? and the founder of Building Learning Power, a global influence on education. Guy Claxton has pioneered practical methods of education that combine high levels of achievement with the development of useful, general habits of mind. He is the author of many books including Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning and The Learning Powered School. Guy’s bestseller What’s the Point of School? was highly praised by Harvard Professor Howard Gardner, Sir Ken Robinson and Baroness Susan Greenfield.

His practical Building Learning Power (BLP) approach to creating learning cultures in schools has influenced youngsters’ lives throughout the UK as well as in, for example, Ireland, Poland, Dubai, Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. The first free school to be based on BLP opens in 2015. 

Guy has a ‘double first’ in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and a doctorate from Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and a Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. He is Visiting Professor of Education at King’s College London.

Richard Gerver - Inspirational Speaker and Author 'Change'

Richard Gerver has been described as one of the most inspirational leaders of his generation. He argues that great leadership is about serving the needs of the people that work for you and rely upon you. The three core principles that underpin Richard's philosophy are communication, empowerment and impact.

Richard is one of the most celebrated speakers in the world. His insights into change, leadership and education are unique thanks to his own extraordinary journey, which has seen him go from struggling actor, copywriter and estate agent, to becoming an award winning teacher and school principal, whose ground breaking work in education was celebrated by the British National Teaching awards and UNESCO amongst others.

Since leaving his twenty year career in education, Richard has worked to explore the links between great leadership, human potential, change and innovation.

Mark Lindfield HMI Ofsted 

Mark Lindfield has been an HMI since joining Ofsted in 2007. He is a qualified teacher and regularly leads inspections of mainstream and independent schools and children’s centres.

Prior to joining Ofsted, Mark held senior management positions in schools including nine years as headteacher. He has also been a university lecturer in primary education. He has particular expertise in children’s centres, Early Years Foundation Stage and in special educational needs. Mark has made a significant contribution to the development of new inspection frameworks and inspector training. Mark Lindfield has been subject to enhanced DBS disclosures.

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

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.

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

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

Revised: Annex R Form – Children in Care on Part-Time School Timetables

Some elements of the Annex R form have recently been revised. Changes focus on involvement of the child, parent(s)/carer(s) and professionals, also greater emphasis on reviewing the plan for a return to full-time education and the need for the Local Authority to be notified when the child is back in school full time. See letter via this link for full details and link to the form.

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

Headlines

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

Education Funding Agency (EFA) e-bulletins

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

e-bulletin Issue 108 dated 19 November 2015   |   e-bulletin for academies click here

e-bulletin Issue 109 dated 26 November 2015   |   e-bulletin for academies click here

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

NCTL Blog The NCTL blog showcases the work of a self-improving, school-led education system >> Find out more about this blog    To keep up to date with new posts, follow @the_college on Twitter.

Roger Pope, Principal of Kingsbridge Community College in Devon, is the new chair of the National College for Teaching and Leadership. In his first blog post he looks back on his first weeks in the role   |   Read more

Reminder: Deadline for submitting Safeguarding Audit 2015

Schools will have received instructions by email with details on how to complete this year's return via Survey Monkey together with some important FAQs and a Quick Guide to Completion.

View this link to access the online audit

Closing date for returns: 31 December 2015.

Contact the Safeguarding Team:
01392 287223   |   safeguardingaudits@babcockinternational.com

Devon Children, Young People and Families Alliance

The Alliance is a partnership of all the organisations and services that work with children, young people and their families in Devon. The aim is to improve things for children and young people by working better together and by engaging as many people as possible in deciding what is important and what should be prioritised. Schools are an important part of the Alliance and are represented on the Executive Group.

Devon’s first Children, Young People and Families Plan has been developed after a series of listening events and sets out a clear ambition for Devon to be a place where they can grow up healthy and happy, lead fulfilling lives in caring communities and view the county as a place they want to stay in their adult lives.

You can find out more at devonchildrensalliance.org.uk

Ofsted Early Years Registration

In May 2015 Ofsted contacted schools that were operating early years provision to inform them that provision for 2, 3 and 4 year olds does not need to be separately registered on the Ofsted Early Years Register.  This communication lead to confusion about the age range of schools and what must be done to ensure schools are correctly admitting early years children. Both DAPH and the School Communications service have since distributed guidance and further details for schools - view this link for more information.

DAG Newsletters - Issues 90 & 91, November 2015 Visit the DAG website to view the latest newsletters. dag.gb.com

Music Mark – Free School Membership

Many schools have applied for Music Mark School Membership this academic year and feedback from music practitioners across Devon has been very positive indeed. If your school hasn’t applied yet, please complete the brief questions in this letter and return by 18 December 2015 to ken.parr@babcockinternational.com

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.

Information: Department for Education’s settlement at Spending Review 2015

The Department for Education has issued a press release following the Spending Review 2015 announcement. It sets out the high level messages about the education budget over the course of this Parliament. The department will announce further detail about specific programmes in due course. Further updates will be confirmed via future EFA e-bulletins.

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.

Devon Maintenance Partnership (DMP) 2010-2015 Scheme Rebate

As agreed at Schools Organisation Capital & Admissions (SOCA) group, the surplus from the 2010-2015 Devon Maintenance Partnership Scheme is to be rebated to schools.  The rebates have now been calculated and will be made shortly.  The basis of the calculation has been agreed with the DCC Built Environment Team to ensure that the rebates are made on a fair and equitable basis.  The rebate calculation takes account of the duration that individual schools have participated within the first four years of the scheme and pupil numbers as at January 2010 (which was the basis of the subscription charges).  The approximate rebate will be £9 per pupil for schools who subscribed for the full duration of the scheme with pro-rata adjustments.  Schools are reminded that there no subscriptions were levied for the 2014/15 year and hence why the first four years have been used to calculate the rebates.  Rebates will be made to all schools who were members of scheme including those that changed status or withdrew from the scheme prior to its end in March 2015.

MACSE Update from the Devon Safeguarding Children Board

The DSCB has launched new MACSE meetings and a new set of tools and guidance to help professionals identify and tackle child sexual exploitation. Visit the CSE page to find out more.

The existing Missing And Child Sexual Exploitation forums (MACSEs) have been re-modelled so that sexual exploitation concerns relating to any child, potential perpetrator or location can be submitted for information sharing. There are three MACSE’s in Devon covering the North, the South and Exeter & East. Any professional who has a CSE concern in relation to a child or young person that they do not think meets the Child Protection threshold should complete a CSE assessment and send it to the MACSE email box to identify if any other agency has relevant information to the case. We have listed quick links to useful resources below and summarised the guidance on this page – please download the MACSE guidance document for full details.

MACSEs are not an emergency response mechanism and do not replace existing procedures for child protection concerns or individual case planning.

MACSE Guidance

CSE Risk Assessment Tool

CSE Suspected Perpetrator / Location of Concern Form

Missing and CSE poster

Missing and CSE information leaflet

Please note that you will need to ‘save’ these documents BEFORE you open them in some browsers.

Contact: Melanie Webb    |    Service Support Officer    |    email    |    01392 383000

devonsafeguardingchildren.org

Keeping Devon's Children Safe

Read the latest newsletter dated November 2015

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.

DAPH strongly encourages all schools to respond to the consultation.

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

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