What the future holds for Surrey local authority and its schools

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What the future holds for Surrey local authority
and its schools
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The national drivers

• 5-year strategy
• Every Child Matters
• National Childcare strategy

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The 5 year strategy

• New Relationship with Schools
• Education Improvement Partnerships
• Guaranteed 3 Year Budgets and dedicated schools
  budget
• Universal Specialist Secondary Schools
• Foundation Schools
• More Places in Popular Schools
• More Academies
• New Buildings (not until 2011/2012)
• 14-19 developments

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Dedicated schools budget

• 2005/6
• Formula spending share 466m
• LEA grant 51m
• 517m
• Surrey schools budget 460m
• Surrey LEA spending 63m
• 523m
• Surrey County Council adds 6m

2006/7 466m 51m 517m 466m 57m 523m
6m
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Possibilities for delegation/ reductions

• Local education support
• Schools youth services
• Some parts of childrens services
• Special schools transport
• Increased FourS trading less bought by LEA
• Strategic management

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Every child matters

• Single children and young people plan formed
  around the 5 outcomes
• Personalised services around the needs of CYP
• Childrens centres extended schools
• Common assessment framework/information sharing
• Stronger statutory/multi-agency framework to
  protect CYP
• Good information and advice for parents
• Childrens Trusts
• Reforms to ensure flexible, skilled workforce

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National Childcare strategy

• Increased maternity/paternity leave,
• Childrens centre in every community
• Free childcare for all 3 4- year-olds,
• School-based childcare 8am to 6pm during term
  time
• Day care settings professionally led, - workforce
  reform,
• Increase in tax credits
• LA s to have fund of 125m from 2006

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Surrey local priorities

• Making inclusion work better
• Improving behaviour through redesigning services
• Developing confederations and extended schools
  and childrens centres
• Managing school reviews
• Increasing the 14-19 offer

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School reviews

• 8500 surplus places in primary schools
• 650 in secondary
• Secondary reviews in Woking and Surrey Heath (and
  Spelthorne) in conjunction with LSC
• Opportunities for inclusion

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Where are we now with confederations?

• Currently have 16 confederations covering 45 of
  the County
• 2 more are currently in development
• Engaging in a range of activities including
• Shared training events
• Joint appointment of staff
• Joint procurement
• Joint working groups

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Why collaborate?
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Whats in it for me?

• The opportunity
• to develop more facilities for the community on
  my school site
• To work with colleagues to develop local
  childrens centre provision
• To coordinate local services such as
  multiprofessional team support

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Extended schools

• Wide range of study support activities from
  homework clubs to sports and arts
• Support for and the inclusion of parents,
  including family learning
• Swift referral and the ready intervention of
  specialised services working for a cluster of
  schools
• Support for children with special needs
• A childcare guarantee 8-6 and during school
  holidays
• Community use sports, arts, adult learning

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Childrens centres

• 8m of capital and 6.8m revenue over 2 years
• up to 46 childrens centres across Surrey.
• located in areas of higher need,
• at least one in each natural and rural community.
  
• with integrated child care and early education,
• access to health and family support services,
• strong links to home based carers and
  child-minders,
• information and advice
• Will serve an area much wider than one school
  catchment
• centre would be a hub with links to other schools
  and providers in the area.

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Local service delivery

• Opportunities to coordinate local services
• Multi professional teams
• Local education officer support
• School based youth support

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Whats in it for students in your communities?

• The opportunity
• To be in a stronger community
• To be a community that places a higher value on
  learning
• To have staff who have access to best practice

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Surrey in 2020?
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• Exclusive
• Protective
• Traditional
• Reserved
• Conventional
• Reactive
• Fragmented
• Cautious

• Inclusive
• Free thinking
• Adventurous
• Energetic
• Creative
• Proactive
• Community focused
• Prepared to take risks

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Building social capital

• Even communities with many material and cultural
  advantages do a poor job of educating their
  children if the adults in those communities dont
  connect with one another
• Student learning is influenced not only by what
  happens in school and at home, but also by social
  networks, norms and trust in the school and the
  wider community
• Robert D .Putnam
  Bowling Alone

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The benefits and costs of independence for schools

• Benefits
• more choice about their future,
• they feel empowered
• can control their own decisions.

• Costs
• It limits resources, social capital is finite
• Schools may spend time creating things that may
  already exist in other places.
• They are also less aware of the context they are
  in.

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Interdependence

• Organisations who work together and creatively
  share ideas and knowledge create new knowledge
  with others to benefit both the students and
  staff in their organisations. They also model an
  approach to life, which will foster cooperative
  attitudes in their students.

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Collaboration has the potential to resolve
differences between organisations, but it also
brings the differences to the table to be
confronted.
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Confederations the continuum
Competition
Network sharing best practice, training and
staffing Integrated extended school provision
across a community Childrens Centre(s) as part
of Confederation Service functions delegated or
devolved to Confederation
Network of schools in an area sharing of
practice, resources, training and staffing,
supported by pump priming
Some local meetings and sharing of practice, but
some players never join
Confederation
Collaboration
Extended confederation