Heads and Governors Briefing

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• Heads and Governors Briefing
• Spring Term 2003

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AGENDA

• Budget
• Time for Standards
• New Property Contracts
• Business Items
• School Term Dates
• Admissions
• CSF Plan Update
• Preventative Strategy
• New Legislation
• Comprehensive Performance Assessment

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• BUDGET 2003/04
• Martin Surtees
• Assistant Director (Resources)

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SCOPE

• Prospects for School Budgets 2003/04
• Central Government EFSS settlement 2003/04()
• HCC budget 2003/04
• Schools funding issues 2003/04
• Review of Local Government Finance during 2002
• SSA () becomes EFSS
• Review of formula
• Review of LEA targets/accountability
• ( See Glossary)

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SETTLEMENT

• 5.1 increase between (adjusted) Education SSA
  for 2002/03 and EFSS for 2003/04
• This is the second lowest increase amongst
  English shire counties
• Only reach 5.1 because of damping()
• ( See Glossary)

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HCC BUDGET STRATEGY

• Need to cover demography, pay and other inflation
• For 2003/04, consider starting position as
  passporting Education SSA increase
• Authority has recognised the pressure on school
  budgets from discontinued TSF grants

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HCC BUDGET STRATEGY 2

• Total of 6.5 million to be made available to
  schools
• recognise ending of TSF grants
• specifically recognise need to continue NQT work
• but free up from constraints of TSF
• 1.7 million for
• increased TSF grants
• Retained Social Inclusion
• Retained Teacher Recruitment
• 2 million to support Behaviour and Achievement
  strategy

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HCC BUDGET STRATEGY 3

• Will exceed passporting target significantly
• BUT
• For 2004/05 we already have three major
  pressures
• 3 year olds
• Operation of damping in 2004/05
• Ending of more TSF grants with no resource

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BEHAVIOUR AND ACHIEVEMENT MONEY

• Additional provision of places
• EBD special schools (including extended day)
• Primary Support Units
• Youth Programmes
• Additional Learning Support and Nurture Units
• Additional Earmarked Pupil Funding
• Development of a Rapid Response team
• Advice and support to schools

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NEXT STEPS IN BUDGET PROCESS

• 27 January 2003 Cabinet recommendations
• for Schools budgets
• End January 2003 Notification of draft School
• Budget to SoS and Schools
• 13 February 2003 County Council approve
• budget
• By 7 March 2003 Publication of School
• budget Shares

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• NEW PROPERTY CONTRACT
• Jim Dalton
• Assistant Director (Planning)

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BACKGROUND

• Current contract with Amey ends 28 February 2003
• Principle of flexibility and choice
• Rather than one size fits all
• Tenders evaluated on basis of
• 60 quality
• 40 price

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CONTRACTORS

• Property Care - Mouchel
• Leading National provider of property services
• Current partner with HCC, other authorities
• Emphasis on making information available

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CONTRACTORS

• Design and Project Management - Mace
• Choice of design teams
• Improvement to predictability of costs
• Well regarded within industry

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CONTRACTORS

• Estates and Evaluation -
• Lambert Smith Hampton
• Established firm with many offices
• Good business systems
• Very competitive cost

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BRIEFING

• Wednesday 12 February 2003
• 4.00 pm at County Hall
• for
• Heads or Deputies
• or Premises Managers
• or Chairs of Premises Committees

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• TIME FOR STANDARDS
• Les Craggs
• Assistant Director (School Standards and
  Curriculum)

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TIME FOR STANDARDS

• What the data tells us - recent research findings
• The picture in Hertfordshire
• The national campaign with regard to workload to
  workforce issues
• The local scene
• The diagnosis
• increased demands
• informed professionalism
• excessive/inappropriate workload
• contractual change

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TIME FOR STANDARDS

• The prescription - a seven point plan
• 1) Progressive reductions in teachers overall
  hours
• 2) Contractual change
• Administrative/clerical tasks
• work-life balance
• cover
• PPA
• time to lead/manage
• 3) Concerted attack on unnecessary paperwork and
  bureaucratic process

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TIME FOR STANDARDS

• 4) Role of support staff, including personal
  administrative assistants, cover supervisors and
  high level teaching assistants
• 5) Reform of management teams
• 6) Change Management training
• 7) Monitoring

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TIME FOR STANDARDS

• The issues
• Resources
• Pace and timetable
• Consensus and consultation
• Outcomes
• Capacity
• Next steps

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• BUSINESS
• ITEMS

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TERM DATES

• Consultation on LGA model in May/June
• Regional and local discussion
• Proposals for 2004/05
• still 3 terms
• more even than traditional model
• direction of travel
• Consultation on 2005/06 arrangements

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ADMISSIONS

• Statutory consultation - 17 January to 1 March
• Secondary no change other than Looked After
  Children
• Primary
• priority for Looked After Children
• measure to nearest non-faith co-educational
  school
• designated routes based on made up paths and
  roads
• VI Form - new requirements
• admission numbers
• admission criteria
• appeals arrangements

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CSF PLAN

• Main themes from consultation
• Need to consolidate and nurture recent
  developments
• Suggestions for improvements in the performance
  measures
• Partners identifying what they could contribute
• Impact of recruitment and retention on delivery
  of the plan
• Positive and supportive of the direction of CSFs
  work
• Detailed comment on the specific actions and
  tasks
• Performance measures reviewed in the light of
• bureaucratic burden on schools
• continuing relevance in the light of changes in
  priorities
• changes in government measures
• security of data collection
• feedback from the Comprehensive Performance
  Assessment (CPA)

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Framework

• Needs / Intervention
  Outcomes

Less Children using Specialist Services
INCREASING INTENSITY OF INTERVENTION
DECREASING NUMBERS
INCREASING NEEDS
Less Children using Targeted/ Co-ordinated
Services
CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX NEEDS
CHILDREN AT RISK
More children using Universal/Preventative
Services
Preventative Strategy ALL CHILDREN
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MAKING IT HAPPEN

• About changing the way we work
• Joining up people and initiatives
• Working together to prevent major problems in
  locality

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NEW LEGISLATION

• LEGISLATION COMING INTO FORCE
• January
• Admission arrangements
• Exclusion regulations
• Transport arrangements for post 16 students
• March
• Constitution of governing bodies
• Consistent financial reporting
• Admissions forums must be in place
• April
• New powers for LSC to propose area wide
  re-organisation of post 16 provision
• Free school lunch eligibility
• Charges for board and lodging costs during
  residential school trips to take account of new
  tax credits

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COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

• The Council provides strong services for local
  people, particularly in education and social
  care. It uses its resources well and operates
  within a sound financial framework that allows
  priorities to be well funded. The Council has
  clear priorities that are derived from effective
  consultation and engagement with the community.

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Dates of Next Briefings

• Monday 12 May 2003
• The Hemel Hempstead School
• Tuesday 13 May 2003
• Wheathampstead Development Centre
• Wednesday 14 May 2003
• Barnwell School, Stevenage
• Thursday 15 May 2003
• County Hall, Hertford