Richard Winn

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• Richard Winn
• Assistant Education Officer
• (Data Management)
• richiewinn_at_sceschools.com

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Agenda

• Who, where and what is SCE?
• Mobility, UPNs and CTFs
• School Census a new item for collection
• ContactPoint
• 14 19 implementation plan
• Questions

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Who are we?

• Service Childrens Education is an Agency of the
  MoD
• Present Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is David
  Wadsworth
• Formed as SCE in 1996
• Amalgamation of SCS(NWE) and SCEA

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The Agencys aims are-

• to provide an effective education service from
  nursery through to sixth form, for dependant
  children residing with MoD personnel serving
  outside the UK
• to enable those children to benefit from their
  residence abroad.

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Service Childrens Education - vital statistics

• Currently some 11,000 pupils in 43 schools in 10
  countries around the world
• Schools vary in size from 20 to 700 pupils
• 35 primary, 2 middle and 6 secondary
• Free places are provided for 3 years olds (part
  time) and 4 year olds in 48 settings
• SCE employs about 2,000 staff - teachers, civil
  servants and locally engaged support staff

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Where are the schools?

• Germany
• Cyprus
• Belize
• Brunei
• Gibraltar
• Canada
• Naples
• Holland
• Belgium
• Falkland Islands

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Mobility and turbulence

• Every academic year approximately 4,000 pupils
  arrive in our schools
• At the same time approximately 4,000 pupils leave
  (the majority destined for schools in England)
• That is 8,000 pupil transactions each year
• Assuming a 40 week academic year then
  approximately 200 transactions per week or 40
  each school day

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How do we manage this?

• 6 secondary schools and 1 middle school SIMS
• Our remaining schools INTEGRIS (mix of G2 and
  Classic)
• CENTRIS, dBase and Crystal Reports
• All schools have a DfES number
• Administrative staff in schools are very can do
• On average a school secretary will stay with us
  for two to three years
• Few newly appointed staff have worked in a school
  before or have experience of MIS
• Hit the ground running, new user training, help
  desk, consortium support, termly User Groups and
  the Annual SCE Conference

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UPNs and CTFs

• Many children arrive in SCE schools without a UPN
  or a CTF
• SCE schools make every effort to obtain a UPN
  from the previous school
• If that fails we search Key to Success on the
  schools behalf
• SCE make every effort to find a UPN if one exists

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BBC News September 6th 2006
Chairman James Arbuthnot said some of the UK's
90,000 or so services children may be "falling
between the cracks" in the education system.
Communication between government departments
and agencies was "often poor". As a result,
schools were given short notice of postings and
there were delays in the transfer of student
records.
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Positive action- a message to all schools with
service children

• A child from a service family is leaving
• Does the pupil know which school he/she will be
  attending?
• NO!
• Does the pupil know where the family are posted
  to?
• YES it will have been the topic of conversation
  for weeks!
• For SCE schools log on to Edubase and enter 702
  as the LA number
• All SCE schools are listed together with their
  location
• Normally you will only find one school in each
  location
• Gütersloh has two (Haig and Blankenhagen) so use
  702LLLL
• Ralston School Canada (7036203)
• MEF International School, Izmir, Turkey (7036509)
• Jerondong School, Brunei (7036196)
• Does your LA have a significant number of pupils
  from service families? Do some transfer to SCE
  or to other LAs?
• Please make every effort to use CTFs and ensure
  continuity

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Using Establishment Finderhttp//www.edubase.gov
.uk/EstablishmentFind.aspx
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CTFPupils UploadedSeptember 2006 August
2007Akrotiri Primary School(S2S Website)
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CTFPupils DownloadedSeptember 2006 August
2007Akrotiri Primary School(S2S Website)
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• Thank you

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ContactPoint
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ContactPoint

• The legislation excludes SCE from participation
  as a Local Authority (children who would
  normally reside in England)
• When a child leaves England their ContactPoint
  record will remain active for 3 years and then be
  archived
• We anticipate that practitioners who work with
  children and young people within the military
  environment worldwide will have access to
  ContactPoint
• How we ensure we have the best possible
  information on children and young people arriving
  in our Garrison areas worldwide
• When children and young people return to England
  how do we ensure information on them is made
  available?

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Other factors

• There are approximately 11,000 children in SCE
  schools
• There are many more who are not
• children from 0 to 3 years old
• school leavers who have not returned to UK
• children in other educational provision
• children who have simply arrived unannounced
• Building an SCE index seems the only option

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An SCE Index

• A number of data feeds have been identified
• Our requirement will be for a dynamic web based
  world wide solution
• We intend to complete a pilot data matching
  exercise in January 2008 (to coincide with School
  Census)
• No funding or resources have been identified to
  build the index as yet
• There are ongoing discussions with DCSF
• We would be happy (ecstatic!) to have some
  dialogue with LAs who have already invented this
  wheel.

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School Census 2008

• New data item

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School Census 2008
School Census for maintained primary
schools Preparation and Guidance for 2008 Page 5
This bit here!!
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Service Children in Education and Source of
Service Children in Education

• Service Children in Education Indicates if a
  child has a parent or parents who are Service
  personnel, serving in regular HM Forces military
  units and exercising parental care and
  responsibility. The information will be of use to
  help identify both the impact that being a
  Service child has on their education and the
  impact that catering for large numbers of Service
  children has on the school.  Please note,
  however, that data on individual pupils is not
  being shared with the MoD.
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• Source of Service Children in Education This
  describes the source of the service child
  indicator obtained eg parents, school, pupil. It
  must be completed for all pupils.  In order to
  meet data protection requirements, it is
  essential that information provided by parents or
  pupils can be distinguished from information
  ascribed by the school.

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14 19 Implementation Plan
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14 19 Implementation Plan

• SCE are working with other agencies (Army
  Education Centres, Work Based Learning Providers)
  to collate data on starts, completions and
  achievement within the QAN system
• Identifying NEETS through the SCE index to
  provide targeted responses to their education and
  training needs
• Joint Area Prospectus a web bases facility at
  www.sceschools.com/jap and soon linked to the
  DCSF catalogue of local authority and regional
  prospectuses.
• The SCE point of contact is Henry Dixon
  henry.dixon_at_sceschools.com

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• Any questions?

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• Richard Winn
• Assistant Education Officer
• (Data Management)
• richiewinn_at_sceschools.com