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Welcome to your new staff bulletin, combining the Ofsted bulletin with the News Matrix. Please cascade these important updates to any staff not receiving this email
Key messages
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Message to staff
Read this message to staff from Strategic Director People, Jennie Stephens and Cabinet Member for Children, Schools and Skills, Will Mumford
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Back to Social Work
Operational Managers have been appointed and are in post; preferences for all other posts will be mapped before Christmas, with Team Managers having a key role to play in working with communities and with partners on threshold and referrals.
Feedback on the wider Back to Social Work consultation is due today (13 December) with the re-structure on track to be in place by January 2014.
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Early Help
The Early Help Strategy, which includes an implementation and action plan, will go to the Devon Safeguarding Children’s Board (DSCB) today (13 December) for final consideration for agreement. Find out more
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Quality Assurance
We are combining new information, feedback from children and families and performance data into regular reports to give an overview of the quality and impact of our services, to help managers and staff focus on where outcomes can be improved. What is the next step?
Looked After Children
We have identified groups both within Devon County Council and our partners who deal with the aspects of our services, where our self-assessment made recommendations for action. We will be looking at how we can best work together across agencies to improve services for Looked After Children.
We are going to bring together a Planning and Delivery Group to prioritise and co-ordinate the work on these recommendations so that we have a full, up-to-date picture of what we are doing to improve the lives of the children and young people we look after
 Celebrate the Achievement of Children & Young People in Care and Care Leavers
On Friday 14 March we will be holding an event to celebrate the achievements of Devon’s Children & Young People in Care and Care Leavers. This is your opportunity to nominate someone who you think has achieved something significant over the last year. Nominate now (entry date extended to 31 December)
Learning and training
Calling all social work students
If you're a social work student you might be you looking for reliable research and good practice guidance; quality-assured teaching materials; or access to the latest reports, policy developments and research findings.
These, and many other resources, are available, free of charge on the student area of the Social Care Institute for Excellence website
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Safeguarding Children & Young People Training Guide
Look ahead to the new year and view the latest training opportunities for December 2013 - March 2014
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