 DASH Summer Conference & AGM 2018 | Friday 29 June 2018
Meeting with MPs
Cabinet Member for schools, James McInnes, and Dawn Stabb,
Head of Education and Learning visited Westminster last week to
brief the county’s MPs on the latest situation together with Rob Haring (DASH) and Paul Walker (DAPH) . The key message was to let MPs know
that, just because the National Funding Formula has been introduced,
schools in the county still lag far behind many other areas and our High Needs
Budget is also under considerable pressure. Further updates from this
meeting will follow.
 Outward Bound 'Skills for Life Award' 2018 | F R E E places
The Sir Francis Chichester Trust is once again offering FREE places on the 19 day Outward Bound 'Skills for Life Award' course to young people who live in Devon (including Plymouth and Torbay) and who are aged 16-19 (at the time of the course, which will be July/August).
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The course is designed to help participants make an effective transition into
sixth form, further education or work and is a chance to have a life-shaping
adventure with people from all over the world, to know what they are truly
capable of achieving and to stand out in a crowded market place. The
courses are held at the Outward Bound centres in the Lake District, Wales and
Scotland | READ MORE | download the P O S T E R
Closing date for
applications | 12 February 2018
More information
(including a video clip about the course and a link to the application form)
can be found on the Trust website chichestertrust.org
When attending
meetings of Devon Education Forum (DEF), its sub-groups and other statutory or
working groups, DASH Representatives provide a summary of key messages and
issues affecting the secondary phase.
Details
of Membership on DEF, agendas and full minutes of previous meetings
and other information about DEF can be found on the DEF website
Read the minutes from the 15 January 2018 meeting H E R E - date of the next DEF meeting is 21 March 2018
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
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.
Feedback from SOCA meeting 9 January
2018
Compliance with the School Admissions Code:
- Priority
for children of “Other Faiths” – schools need to show that the criteria
for eligibility are equitable to Christian faiths and are achievable
locally: can children of other faiths satisfy attendance criteria?
- Nursery
application : schools need to demonstrate that summer born children have
legitimate and realistic opportunity to get into school; may need to
reconsider having nursery as a priority
More work to be done
prior to determination of admissions:
- In-year
application forms : schools with determined arrangements to include their
own application forms will be subject to compliance review
- Admission
arrangements and school websites - All schools to check they have all of
their admissions policies on their websites; copies as understood by the
LA are held in individual school Sharepoint folders at http://devon.cc/schoolpolicy
Admission of children
in care:
Aim is to accelerate admission of children in
care/formerly in care to support virtual school. Expectation is that only rare
exceptions when a child in care should not be admitted to a school
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Chelsea's Choice Theatre Production
The Safer Devon Partnership has given a grant to Babcock LDP to
rollout a further nine performances of ‘Chelsea’s Choice’, the highly
successful theatre production which explores the dangers of Child Sexual
Exploitation in a way in which young people find very engaging. The production
is suitable for KS3 and KS4 pupils and is F R E E to participating schools.
A condition of the grant is that those schools which either host
or attend a performance must agree to deliver a series of three sessions to
pupils, which complement the performance. Schools must confirm when these
sessions have been delivered as Babcock LDP is required to report back to the
Safer Devon Partnership. The teaching resources for these sessions can be found
on the Alter
Ego website or view/download via this L I N K
See also the Information Sheet for Venues
We are seeking schools willing to host either two morning sessions
or one afternoon session (you will be asked to invite other local schools if
you have sufficient room). The dates that have been booked with Alter Ego are
as follows:
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Monday 5th March
- Tuesday 6th March
- Wednesday 7th March
The performance will last for 45 minutes with a post-show talk
lasting 15 minutes.
Farrer and Co | Peer on Peer Abuse Toolkit
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The Safeguarding Unit at Farrer & Co has produced the peer-on-peer abuse policy (template policy), which encapsulates a Contextual Safeguarding approach, in collaboration with Dr Carlene Firmin, MBE – who is a leading expert on peer-on-peer abuse, and the driving force behind Contextual Safeguarding in this country.
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The Safeguarding Unit at Farrer & Co has produced the peer-on-peer abuse policy (template policy), which encapsulates a Contextual Safeguarding approach, in collaboration with Dr Carlene Firmin, MBE – who is a leading expert on peer-on-peer abuse, and the driving force behind Contextual Safeguarding in this country.
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Babcock Newsletter
January 2018 |
SAFEGUARDING UPDATE
The January N E W S L E T T E R includes updates on:-
Keeping Children Safe
in Education (KCSiE) - new draft guidance has recently been published and
the DfE is currently seeking views on the new guidance via an online consultation, which closes on 22 February
2018
Outstanding s175/157 Safeguarding Audits - if you are one of the 83 schools that have missed this 31 December 2017
deadline please follow this link to complete as a matter of urgency.
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 Help us shape our new website!
Devon County Council Digital Communications Team is developing a new safeguarding information website on behalf of Devon Children and Families Partnership (DCFP).
READ MORE
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 Helpline | Advice and support on SEND processes
Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
e-bulletins
The Education and Skills Funding
Agency (ESFA) e-bulletins are issued weekly in term time and provide the latest
information for academies,
schools, colleges, local authorities and other post-16 providers.
To view/subscribe to the
latest bulletins | READ MORE
About
the Education & Skills Funding Agency | READ MORE
Is your school information
accurate?
A reminder to all schools to check / update information held
within the Admissions Directory or use the Update
Form via this L I N K
School Census Bulletin – Spring 2018
– Known Issue (3)
An issue has been identified in the School Census Summary Report
whereby pupils aged 4 are included within Table 15 instead of being shown
separately in Table 16. It is also believed that the report is excluding
15-year olds in error | READ MORE
DASH Representation on Working
Groups
The scope and role of DASH within the local context is
illustrated in the Working Groups Representation Chart
effective for the current academic year.
Research and analysis |
School inspections: staff and pupil questionnaire text
During Ofsted school inspections, staff and pupils can give
their views via an online survey. This page provides the questions for
reference only | READ MORE
Policy paper | Reducing
teacher workload
What the government is doing to reduce unnecessary workload for
teachers, including details of the workload challenge | READ MORE
Removing Unnecessary Teacher
Workload Events
Exeter | 8 March 2018 at
Exeter Racecourse, Kennford, Exeter EX6 7XS
The Department for
Education, in collaboration with school leaders and teachers across the
country, is running a series of events to showcase work that is currently being
done in schools to effectively reduce teacher workload | READ MORE
This exciting regional
event in Exeter will showcase work that is currently being done in schools
to effectively reduce teacher workload. You will have the chance to meet with
other colleagues, engage with presenters from across the education sector and
discuss your own work and contexts | READ MORE
Statutory guidance | Schools causing concern
Statutory guidance on local authorities' and regional schools commissioners' responsibilities relating to schools and PRUs causing concern | READ MORE
Transforming children and young
people’s mental health provision: a green paper
The government is asking people for their views on a green paper
setting out measures to improve mental health support for children and young
people.
The green paper
focuses on earlier intervention and prevention, especially in and linked to
schools and colleges. The proposals include:
- creating
a new mental health workforce of community-based mental health support
teams
- every
school and college will be encouraged to appoint a designated lead for
mental health
- a
new 4-week waiting time for NHS children and young people’s mental health
services to be piloted in some areas
The consultation
closes at midday on 2 March 2018 | READ MORE
N E W DAG website - see dagdevon.uk
Read the latest DAG newsletter H E R E
Devon Association of Governors (DAG) e-newsletter, the fortnightly digest of the articles published in the DAG website. Most of the web pages and documents on the DAG website are restricted to DAG members - if you are a DAG member please log in or register. Contact DAG | info@dagdevon.uk
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