 DASH Summer Conference & AGM
Friday 29 June 2018 at
Exeter Racecourse and Conference Centre EX6 7XS
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With keynote speaker A N D Y B U C K honk.org.uk
Bookings are open to
Devon school leaders who are members of DASH - this is a free event
subsidised by DASH. Please see the booking form for further details. Booking is essential and via the O N L I N E B O O K I N G F O R M
Funding Challenges in Devon Schools
- letter to Dr Sarah Wollaston MP
Further to the meeting held with representatives from Devon
schools and Dr Sarah Wollaston MP on Friday 23 March, DAPH and DASH have written
separately to pick up on the actions arising in respect of the Mental Health
and Wellbeing agenda in Schools to include the potential cessation of funding
of the EH4MH support services and a meeting with colleagues in DCC Public
Health to discuss a Devon wide bid for trail-blazer status under the proposals
set out in the Governments Green Paper: Transforming Children and Young
People’s Mental Health Provision.
- Read the
letter sent to Dr Sarah Wollaston MP (dated 28.03.18) H E R E
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response to this letter from Dr Sarah Wollaston MP dated 29.03.18 H E R E
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also the response from Nick Gibb MP dated 16.04.18 H E R E
 Meningococcal ACWY vaccination Year 13
Public Health England are asking for schools’ help in encouraging all Year 13 pupils to check if they have received the MenACWY vaccine to protect against meningococcal disease. This is a rare disease but can be life-threatening and cause meningitis and septicaemia. Current Year 13 students will have been offered the vaccine in year 10 or 11, but some did not take up this offer. This is in response to a rapidly growing increase in cases of a highly aggressive strain of meningococcal W.
Please view documents via this L I N K which contain information for staff and students. For queries contact the Screening and Immunisations Team at NHS England – email england.swscreeningandimms@nhs.net
Request for EH4MH Case Studies
The DAPH Office is seeking case studies from schools on how
EH4MH has made a positive impact - how schools are finding their mental health
support, what their school is offering their children and what they might
benefit from. Please email your case studies to daph@devon.gov.uk
A chance to try out mental health
education programmes and £1000 for your school
The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families is
looking for primary and secondary schools to partake in our 2018-2020 Education
for well being research programme to implement and evaluate a range of mental
health interventions for school pupils in years 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 | READ MORE
NJC Local Government Services Pay
Award
Agreement has been reached by the National Joint Council (NJC)
for rates of pay applicable from 1 April 2018 and 1 April 2019 for non-teaching
staff on DCC grades A to T. This is a 2% increase, with the lowest paid
receiving up to 9.1%, aligned with National Living Wage increases |
READ MORE
Free School Meals Legislation
Changes
Information from the Free School Meals team regarding some
recent changes in Free School Meals legislation which came into force on the 1
April 2018 | READ MORE
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.
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of Membership on DEF, agendas and full minutes of previous meetings
and other information about DEF can be found on the DEF website
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Date
of next DEF 20 June 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.
DCFP Multi Agency Early Help
Improvement Board (MAEHIB)
Feedback from phase association representatives who attended the recent MAEHIB meeting on
19.04.18 included:-
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is becoming increasingly important that all schools use the Right
for Children system and engage with Early Help to request additional
support for families. Many schools are managing successfully to support
families but without using the system and Early Help DCC is unable to
complete the payment by results applications which will be the basis of
funding for Early Help in the future. Many of the services we
currently access have been pump primed by the LA on the understanding that
funding will be received, so far Devon has only been able to access 8% of
the £3m allocated by the government for this work, we should currently be
at 50%. This is partly because of incomplete Right for Children
information and low levels of requests for additional services from Early
Help. Schools should contact their locality Early Help coordinator for
further advice.
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Watch out for information on the new online MASH enquiry form with will
go live in June 2018.
Guidance | Harmful
Sexual Behaviour in School
The Contextual Safeguarding team, supported by Ofsted and the
Care Quality Commission, have created a range of resources for schools,
multi-agency partnerships and inspectorates for tackling harmful sexual
behaviour in schools. For more information and a useful list of resources
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 Helpline | Advice and support on SEND processes
SEND News and Updates
See the latest news and updates from the SEND team |
READ MORE
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f40 Campaign for Fairer Funding
See the latest news from the recent Fair Funding Conference held in London on
26 March 2018, plus updates from the fair funding campaign on the f40 website f40.org.uk
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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
Social media analytics – March 2018
See the latest monthly roundup of key stats from DCC’s combined
social media activity | READ MORE
South West Child Health Information
Service | Bulletin No. 5
See the latest updates from the SW Child Health Information
Service bulletin March 2018 | 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
GDPR | The role of Data
Protection Officer
In order to comply with the requirements of the
GDPR individual schools will be required to make arrangements to either appoint
to this statutory position, or assign responsibility for this role to an
existing staff member. Further guidance on this statutory position is
available from the Information Commissioner’s Office website via this L I N K or contact Martin
Lawrence, Data Protection Officer and Information Governance Manager
DCC via EMAIL for further clarification.
DfE Guidance | Data
protection: toolkit for schools
Guidance to support schools with data protection
activity, including compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) | READ MORE
New Guidance for Church of England
Schools
The new SIAMS
Evaluation Schedule will come into operation in September 2018 - CofE schools
will be inspected on the quality of their provision from September. See
the new guidance and other useful resources H E R E
Statutory guidance |
Induction for newly qualified teachers (NQTs)
Statutory guidance on NQT inductions for headteachers, school
staff and governing bodies | 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.
Guidance | School
inspection handbook
Guidance for inspecting schools under the common inspection
framework, with a mythbuster document on common misconceptions
| READ MORE
Guidance | Handbook for
short, monitoring and unannounced behaviour school inspections
Guidance for Ofsted inspectors carrying out school inspections
under section 8 of the Education Act 2005 | READ MORE
Blogs | Sean Harford,
National Director Education
Changes to the School Inspection Window
- includes more details on the small number of updates to section 8 and section
5 inspection handbooks (see above).
Also see Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?
Read the latest DAG newsletter H E R E
Devon Association of Governance (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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