1st National Choice Advisers Conference

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1st National Choice Advisers Conference 25 June
2008 University of Westminster
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• Barking Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Bath
  North East Somerset Bedfordshire Bexley
  Birmingham Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool
  Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Bradford
  Brent Brighton Hove Bristol Bromley
  Buckinghamshire Bury Calderdale Cambridgeshire
  Camden Cheshire City of London Cornwall
  Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby
  Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham
  Ealing East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex
  Enfield Essex Gateshead Gloucestershire
  Greenwich Hackney Halton Hammersmith Fulham
  Hampshire Haringey Harrow Hartlepool Havering
  Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hillingdon Hounslow
  Isle Of Wight Islington Kensington Chelsea Kent
  Kingston upon Hull Kingston Upon Thames
  Kirklees Knowsley Lambeth Lancashire Leeds
  Leicester City Leicestershire Lewisham
  Lincolnshire Liverpool Luton Manchester Medway
  Merton Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newcastle
  Upon Tyne

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Newham Norfolk North East Lincolnshire North
Lincolnshire North Somerset North Tyneside
North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland
Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire
Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth
Reading Redbridge Redcar Cleveland Richmond
upon Thames Rochdale Rotherham Rutland Salford
Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Shropshire Slough
Solihull Somerset South Gloucestershire South
Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark
St Helens Staffordshire Stockport
Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk
Sunderland Surrey Sutton Swindon Tameside
Telford Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Tower Hamlets
Trafford Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest
Wandsworth Warrington Warwickshire West
Berkshire West Sussex Westminster Wigan
Wiltshire Windsor Maidenhead Wirral Wokingham
Wolverhampton Worcestershire York
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• 5 principles underpin the plan
• Government does not bring up children parents
  do so Government needs to do more to back
  parents and families.
• All children have the potential to succeed and
  should go as far as their talents can take them.
• Children and young people need to enjoy their
  childhood as well as grow up prepared for adult
  life.
• Services need to be shaped by and responsive to
  children, young people and families, not designed
  around professional boundaries.
• It is always better to prevent failure than
  tackle a crisis later.

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'I want parents to choose schools not schools
to choose parents' Ed Balls, Secretary of State
for Children, Schools and Families
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• CHOICE ADVISERS and
• School Choice Adviser
• School Admission Choice Adviser
• Choice Adviser/Education Welfare Officer
• Choice Adviser/KS 3 Adviser
• Choice Adviser/PP Officer
• Customer Services and Choice Advice Officer
• Development Worker Outreach/Choice Adviser
• Helpline Supervisor/Choice Adviser
• Web Officer/Choice Adviser/Helpline Supervisor
• Pupil Parent Liasion Officer Choice Adviser
• School Admissions Transport Team Leader
  Choice Adviser
• Senior Choice Adviser
• Temporary Choice Adviser
• Childrens Families Information Worker (Choice
  Adviser)
• Preference Adviser

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• CHOICE ADVISERS and
• Team Leader
• Preference Adviser ( Admissions)
• Case Worker School Preference Adviser
• Information Officer
• Outreach Officer
• Childrens Information Officer
• Family Information Adviser
• Parents Advice Worker
• Parents in Partnership Coordinator and Choice
  Adviser
• Strategic Parenting Lead Parents in Partnership
  Case Worker
• Admissions Adviser
• Secondary Choice Admissions Adviser
• School Admissions Adviser
• School Admissions Choice Adviser
• Admissions Officer

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• CHOICE ADVISERS and
• CIS Information Officer
• CIS Manager, CA Delivery Development
• CIS Outreach Officer
• Assistant Parent Partnership Officer
• Parent Partnership Choice Advice Co-ordinator
  
• Parent Partnership Case Worker Choice Adviser
• Parent Partnership Co-ordinator
• Parent Partnership Officer
• Parent Partnership Support Officer
• Parent Partnership Officer - School Transfer
  Adviser
• Team Leader PP
• PP Area Case Co-ordinator SEN Transitions
  Information Adviser
• Co-ordinating Transition Learning Mentor
• Information Officer/Transition Adviser

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• CHOICE ADVISERS and
• Moss/Choice Transition Worker
• Schools Transition Support Officer
• Transition Support Officer
• Primary Secondary Transfer Information and
  Support Officer
• Transition Adviser
• Transition Preference Manager
• Transition to Secondary School Officer
• Transition to Secondary Administration Officer
• Transition Worker
• School Transfer Adviser
• School Transfer Coordinator CIS
• Nurse - School Health Service
• Independent parental Supporter (volunteer)
• Choice Advice Support Officer
• CA Admin Assistant

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• Quotes from parents

I have just had a call from School Admissions, my
daughter has been allocated the chosen school.
Thank you for all your help - you have helped to
contribute towards 3 children remaining very
stable happy!
Thank you for the time and effort that was given
to our family.  It is very rare that we find
parent friendly officials who have the time to
explain things in a very clear way. I will
recommend this service to all service families.
  Well done and Thank You.
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Support was fantastic
Without your guidance and support was an
impossible situation we would never have been
able to succeed. thank you. I will recommend
Choice Advice to everyone that I know.
Great help and advice
Practical and realistic advice given
Very easy to talk to
Put my mind at ease
I gained confidence from the team
Solved my problem really quickly
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Feedback from schools
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Choice Advisers Support and Quality Assurance
Network

• encouraging and supporting Choice Advisers in
  providing realistic, impartial, independent,
  quality advice, so that all families have an
  equal chance of making the best decision for
  their childs future secondary education

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For support and information contact Sue Claridge
suec_at_centra.org.uk 01257 244939 Helen
Foster helenf_at_centra.org.uk 01257
244937 Susan Prynn susanp_at_centra.org.uk
01257 244938 Catherine Goodwin
catherineg_at_centra.org.uk 01257 244991
Website www.dcsf.gov.uk/choiceadvice
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