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Transformation News Archive

Last updated 23 December, 2011

This page will keep you up to date with news about the changes which will affect children's services and school improvement as part of the HCC transformation programme and the recent change in Government.

Information on the wider Council for the Future transformation programme including Children's Services transformation is available on Compass (see links on right).

Local Service Delivery Partnerships

In early summer, CSF consulted with schools, children's centres, early years providers and other HCTP partnership organisations on a county framework for Local Service Delivery Partnerships or LSDPs. These will replace the plethora of existing local partnerships that schools and children's centres work with into one streamlined multifunctional arrangement. The purpose of LSDPs are to improve standards and provide a network of services responsive to local need, removing barriers to learning.

Outcome of Consultation

The consultation on Local Service Delivery Partnerships (LSDP) provided input from individual schools, extended school consortia, Primary Heads Forum, other school network groups, children’s centres and various other stakeholders .

As a result we have amended the partnership areas. The revised map, lists of schools as well as information on responses by district are available below. You can read the attached summary to find out more about the feedback received and next steps.

Final comments on the revised map are invited by 30th September 2010
Email: lsdp@hertscc.gov.uk or

Contact Helen Ashdown
Tel: 01992 555521

Breakdown of responses by district:

• Word 2003, 35kb/1 page, 02/09/2010, responses_lsdp_consultation_sum2010.doc

Revised LSDP map:

• Acrobat pdf, 1.45mb/1 page, 02/09/2010, lsdp_map.pdf

Summary of consultation:

• Word 2003, 32kb/2 pages, 02/09/2010, summary_consultation.doc

List of schools:

• Excel 2003, 107kb/11 sheets, 02/09/2010, lsdp_school_list310810.xls

Invitation to become a Member of the SSE User Group - July 2011

Standards and School Effectiveness (SSE) would like to establish a user group of school staff in order to gain a better understanding of the essential services that Hertfordshire schools need from a school improvement service.

Dependent on the subject, this may involve taking part in an occasional online survey or a member of our Business Management team visiting you in-school to discuss and seek feedback on a range of topics such as:

• Development of SSE's products and services
• Continuing Professional Development courses
• New online services

The terms of reference for the SSE user group are as follows:

1. It will be open to all school based staff.
2. It will be used as a way of gathering information and feedback to help SSE shape the products and services that Hertfordshire schools need.
3. It will not be a policy making group.  However, any significant feedback that has the potential to change policy may be presented to established headteacher forums for consideration.

To register your interest in joining the SSE user group please
Email: jason.sugden@hertscc.gov.uk
5 July 2011

Headteachers: Standards and School Effectiveness Transformation Consultation

Hertfordshire's school improvement service Standards and School Effectiveness started its transformation process on 29 November 2010. The consultation period with staff will run for 90 days and ends on 28 February 2011. The new service will be launched in September 2011.

Consultation events with heads and governors were held in January and February 2011.
If you have any queries about the events, please contact Katie Davies on 01438 844825 or email sse.transformation@hertscc.gov.uk

Consultation on the Transformation of Standards and School Effectiveness

At the headteachers’ updates in July, we asked for feedback on the services that Standards and School Effectiveness (SSE) provide to your schools. This feedback has proved very useful in helping us to develop a new service for the future.

We would like to build on some of your feedback and, having discussed methods of consultation with a small focus group of headteachers, we will be sending out a series of brief online questionnaires to enable us to develop our plans further.

The first questionnaire will focus on the products and services that we currently offer, and that we might offer in the future. The second questionnaire will concentrate on our move to a way of working that has a greater emphasis on partnership working.

We expect to get the first of these questionnaires out this week (11th October 2010), and will email headteachers with a direct link to the online questionnaire.

Many thanks in advance for your time and co-operation.

Consultation on New Models of School Improvement in Hertfordshire

The end of the national strategies in March 2011 and the HCC transformation for September 2011 means that we need to rethink and reshape Standards and School Effectiveness and its school improvement function. We see schools at the heart of this change and these events will provide you with an opportunity to influence and shape the future.

Proforma for Consultation Feedback

We welcome further feedback from anyone unable to attend the consultations and we have provided a proforma which can be returned to Katie Davies at email katie.davies@hertscc.gov.uk or returned to:
Katie Davies
Project Officer
Standards and School Effectiveness
Hertfordshire County Council
SROB107 Robertson House
Six Hills Way
Stevenage
SG1 2FQ

• Word 2003, 38kb/1 page, 29/06/2010, consultation_school_improvement_proforma.doc

Headteachers

In place of the summer term headteacher updates , we ran consultation events on the new models for school improvement which were held on the 29th and 30th June. The presentation given at the events is available below:

• Adobe pdf, 980kb/14 pages, 29/06/2010, new_models_school_improvement_heads.pdf

If you have any queries, please contact Katie Davies (katie.davies@hertscc.gov.uk) 01438 844825.

Early Years

We ran a consultation event on new models for school improvement on 24th June 2010 at Hertfordshire Development Centre, Stevenage. The presentation given at the event is available below:

• Adobe pdf, 980kb/14 pages, 25/06/2010, new_models_school_improvement_earlyyears.pdf

Chairs of Governors

We ran a consultation event on new models for school improvement on 24th June 2010 at Hertfordshire Development Centre, Stevenage. The presentation given at the event is available below:

• Adobe pdf, 980kb/14 pages, 25/06/2010, new_models_school_improvement_governors.pdf
  

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Academies

Letter from Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, to chairs of governors and headteachers - November 2010

• Adobe pdf, 63kb/2 pages, 17/11/2010, mg_letter_academies_17nov2010.pdf

The following two letters were sent in June 2010 to Headteachers and Chairs of Governors to explain Hertfordshire's approach to the potential development of new academies in the County.

Letter from John Harris, Director of Children, Schools and Families - 11th June 2010

• Adobe pdf, 70kb/2 pages, 16/06/2010, letter_john_harris.pdf

Letter from Robert Gordon, Leader of the Council - 8th June 2010

• Adobe pdf, 927kb/1 page, 16/06/2010, letter_robert_gordon.pdf

Department for Education

• www.education.gov.uk/academies - Department for Education information on academies

Teachers TV

• www.teachers.tv - Latest information, news and content on academies on Teachers TV

Bristol Document Summary Service

The Bristol Document Summary Service (which SSE subscribes to on behalf of Hertfordshire Schools) have published a summary of the new legislation and policy which can be found here:

• Bristol Document Summary Service - No 43. June 2010 - Academies. A Summary of New Legislation and Policy.
  

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