CHAIRS AND VICE CHAIRS OF GOVERNORS BRIEFING

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CHAIRS AND VICE CHAIRS OF GOVERNORS BRIEFING

• Thursday 28 February 2008
• 7.00pm
• Venue National Badminton Centre, Bradwell Road,
  Loughton Lodge, Milton Keynes MK8 9 LA

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• AGENDA
• Welcome
• The Childrens Trust and a New Relationship with
  Schools Carolyn Boyd and David Gamble
• School Budgets and Services to Schools Richard
  Schmidt and David Gamble
• Virtual Learning Environments Jan Roe
• Next Meeting Wednesday 7 May 2008

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• Childrens Trust and a
• New Partnership with Schools

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Membership of the Childrens Trust Board
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Draft MK Model
Core and additional needs
Targeted Needs
Specialist Needs
CAF
0-19 Team Around the Child (Including Lead
Professional role)
Complex Need
Criminal Justice
Childrens Social Care
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The Learning Development Directorate 2007/08
A review
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The Directorates new service portfolios
Corporate Director, Learning Development
LSCB
Joint Health Social Care Provider(s)
Childrens Trust Executive
Services to Schools Lead Commissioner
Schools Family Services Provider
Joint Health Social Care Lead Commissioner
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Schools Budget Services to Schools
David Gamble Richard Schmidt
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Funding System
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Funds from Government

• Per Pupil increase in the DSG for MK
• 08/09 5.6, 09/10 3.7, 10/11 4.3
• Cost Pressures assessed as 3.1
• MFG 2.1 all years
• Standards Funds increased by 2.1 (min)
• School Standards Grant up 2.1 (min)

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Local Funding Issues

• Extra cost of new funding models
• Primary 1.4m, Special 0.5m
• SSR Protection removed (1m)
• Planned AWPU increase 3.1
• Pockets of Deprivation (1.5m)
• Re-allocation of services, freeing up resources
  in the Schools Budget (2m)
• LABs from within above funding (115k 08/09)

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Decision Issues

• Quick PLASC returns
• Schools Forum met on 26th February
• Budget Shares to schools by end February
• Balance of Funding
• Significant shift of Resources between the
  Schools Budget and the General Fund
• Significant central pressures for SEN

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• Communication with schools
• Budgets emailed to schools (Year 1) tomorrow
• Includes Standards Fund
• Year 2 3 shortly

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Services to Schools (1)

• Councils General Fund settlement plus proposed
  Council Tax increase creates huge budget
  challenges for LD
• Compounded by DSG/General Fund shifts
• Charges have to be introduced (or increased) to
  maintain service provision
• Continued drive from Central Govt to delegate
  funds to schools for them to make decisions about
  buying services

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Services to Schools (2)

• Statutory provision at no cost to schools
• Non-statutory provision charged for
• Previously subsidised services have to break even
• New system will take some time to bed in
• Relaxation on timeline to make decisions
• LD Service re-structuring will result in
  stronger commissioning of key services

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Harnessing technology - Learning Platforms
Milton Keynes LA Learning Platform
Procurement Jan Roe - Senior Consultant
E-learning
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Harnessing technology - Learning Platforms

• The Personalisation Agenda
• Personalising learning is at the heart of
  achievement for all learners. Enabling learners
  to learn at a pace and place that suits them is
  difficult for education providers to achieve, but
  it is supported by new developments in
  technology. Learning and teaching for the 21st
  century needs to harness and exploit these new
  technologies to create opportunities for all.
  (Becta)

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Harnessing technology - Learning Platforms
Local Authorities are required to make a Learning
Platform available to schools that includes a
personalised web space for every pupil. A
learning platform brings together hardware,
software and supporting services to enable more
effective ways of working within and outside the
classroom.
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What is a Learning Platform?

• A collection of tools, including
• Content management - enabling teaching staff to
  create, store and repurpose resources and
  coursework which can be accessed online
• Curriculum mapping and planning - tools and
  storage to support assessment for learning,
  personalisation, lesson planning etc. Often a
  Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
• Learner engagement and administration - enabling
  access to pupil information, attendance,
  timetabling, e-portfolios and management
  information
• Communication and collaboration tools - such as
  email, messaging, discussion forums, blogs, and
  wikis

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The Position in Milton Keynes

• The Market
• The market for Learning Platforms and VLEs is
  immature and largely driven by the funding
  available from central Government.
• Our aim
• To provide maximum flexibility for schools to set
  their own timescales and to make their own
  choices of VLE.
• Our Solution
• To provide an overarching platform within which
  other products can work.
• To ensure the platform
• provides individual personal learning space
• includes collaboration and communication tools
• supports the interoperability and integration
  of a schools Management Information System
  (MIS) and any Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
  already in place

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The Process

• A joint procurement process with Norfolk County
  Council and Southend Borough Council.
• Each LA has its own evaluation Criteria and
  chooses its own solution.
• Headteachers, teachers and pupils from schools
  of all phases involved in the final hands-on
  evaluation.