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Association of Education Advisers summit (AoEA)
The AoEA Connecting Educators - seventh annual summit will be held at the Radisson Hotel in York on Friday 21 June 2024. Topics to be covered include inclusion, artificial intelligence, wellbeing and learning and the future of school improvement. The day is designed to spark ideas and foster dialogue, with a range of ‘sharing great practice’ sessions. Find out more information and book your place online.
Start for Life offer volunteers
The Support for Infants and Parents Private Members’ Bill is looking to explore further the roll out of the Start for Life (SfL) offers. As part of this, the SfL team are looking for volunteers to support with completing a new burdens assessment for the duty on councils to publish a SfL offer and developing statutory guidance on SfL offers. For more details on this contact charlotte.dring@dhsc.gov.uk
Department for Education – school attendance
The Department for Education (DfE) has a series of reforms in place to support schools, trusts and local authorities to continue tackling the absence problem. Schools or trusts can sign up now to share their daily school attendance data. The DfE will be running a series of sessions and webinars from April 2024 on improving school attendance.
Early years education and childcare
A DfE pulse survey with early years education and childcare providers has suggested that group-based provision is more likely to have vacancies compared to school-based provision. Childminders view the indicative funding increases as more likely to result in better profitability.
LGA early years education and childcare survey
The LGA is committed to understanding any challenges that the expansion to the existing early years entitlements will create and has launched a survey to identify any support or guidance that may help local authorities ensure there is sufficient childcare for children of working parents. The survey has been extended until Friday 10 May. All single tier and county councils have been sent their own unique link to the survey. If your council has not received its unique link, please contact keiron.watt@local.gov.uk.
Children’s mental health - working group
Concerns related to poor mental health and the impact this has on young people’s lives are well documented with councils and partners needing to support more young people. In response to this, the LGA has developed a councillor working group to share good practice and ensure progressive asks of Government. We are particularly looking for areas of good practice. If you have a project or initiative, you would like to share please contact flora.wilkie@local.gov.uk
National Children and Adult Services Conference 2024 - workshop bids
The National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) is a must-attend event for councillors, directors, senior officers, policy makers, service managers and those with responsibilities for children and adult services in the statutory, voluntary, and private sector. We are now taking bids to run workshop sessions at the conference. Workshops provide a vital opportunity for attendees to explore current issues, discuss new and future developments, and hear examples of innovation and good practice. For more information, please visit the conference website.
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