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All statutory guidance and legislation published on this site continues to reflect the current legal position unless indicated otherwise.
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| 02/11/2009 | |
Starting in 2010, all children’s centres are to be inspected by Ofsted. From July to September of this year, Ofsted has been consulting on its proposed inspection framework, which it has also been testing through a programme of pilot inspections.
A discussion will take place in the National College’s talk2learn environment for four weeks from 2nd November, encouraging posts on your hopes, views and how you are preparing for inspection. It is hoped all NPQ communities and some inspectors will contribute to the debate.
Kathy Stevens, a children’s centre leader from Wakefield, has offered this thinkpiece about the inspection framework:
http://www.childrens-centres.org/CCLN/CCLNSupportDocuments/cc-ofsted-kathy-stevens-thinkpiece-1.doc
Initially there will be direct links to the discussion from the homepage of the National College website. Alternatively, to access talk2learn, sign in to the College website at: https://www.nationalcollege.org.uk/index/login.htm
If you have a previous NPQICL or talk2learn logins they should still grant you access, although if you have not logged in to the website for a while, you will be asked to update your personal details first of all.
To sign up for a College login (i.e. to become a member of the College) go to:
https://www.nationalcollege.org.uk/index/login.htm
When you arrive at the ‘My College’ page, follow the link entitled ‘My network (talk2learn)’ in the navigation bar towards the top of the page. You will then arrive at the ‘National College discussions’ where the discussion can be found. | | Hyperlink: Children's Centres and Ofsted Inspections discussion | | |
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| 02/09/2009 | |
Thursday 24th September, Bloomsbury Hotel, London
Now in its 7th successful year, this major annual conference provides all those leading the way in providing high-quality, diversified children's centre's with the opportunity to come together and share how they are improving outcomes for the Sure Start generation.
Topics covered include:
Planning for challenges and opportunities of phase 3
Meeting the sustainability and outreach challenges
Hear about how success is achieved
For a 20% discount on the conference price, please quote tfc when booking | | Hyperlink: 7th Annual Sure Start Conference Details | | |
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| 27/08/2009 | |
Dear Children Centre Leader,
The DCSF invites you to a ‘Communications’ Conference that will be opened by a ministerial address and will celebrate the positive impact Sure Start Children’s Centres are having on the lives of children and families.
It will be a valuable opportunity for you to find out about the planned Sure Start Children’s Centres communications campaign to launch during Sure Start Children’s Centres Week (14-18 September), to share best practice and discover how communications can help you to encourage greater use of children’s centres and improve outcomes for children.
It will also provide the perfect environment in which to meet colleagues and share opportunities and challenges; particularly in terms of how Sure Start Children’s Centres communicate to parents. There will be a number of information sessions on specific communications activities such as media relations, field marketing and details on how you can extend the national campaign on a local basis.
| | Hyperlink: Further information and registration details | | |
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| 06/08/2009 | |
Dear Colleague,
I am currently undertaking some research as part of the Integrated Systems Leadership Pilot with the National college of School Leadership, and am asking for your help in providing some information. I am looking at the concept of ‘reach’, and what degree of engagement with a family is necessary or desirable to improve outcomes. As an initial scoping exercise I am looking at how reach is measured by different children’s centres. For example when determining what percentage of one parent families have been reached would you count all those who have been sent a newsletter or flyer, or all those who have accessed one activity, or those who have accessed more than one activity? If so, how many activities, or is it the type of activity? Do you use the same criteria for all groups?
If you could just send a brief email with the information, that would be very useful. No names or identification will be used in the final study, I will just be using figures or anonymised data. If you would prefer to post the information without any identification please send my address: Marsh Farm Children’s Centre, Redgrave Gardens, Luton, LU3 3QN.
I appreciate you are all very busy people, but would be very grateful if you could find time to respond to this request. I am happy to share the results with anyone who may be interested, just let me know when you email. My email address is Denise.poore@luton.gov.uk.
Thank you for your help.
Yours sincerely,
Denise Poore | | Hyperlink: Denise.poore@luton.gov.uk | | |
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