Making a Difference the last word

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Making a Difference the last word

• Graham Badman
• Managing Director

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GCSE Trends Uncapped APS
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GCSE Trends with no passes
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• If, by an act of science or magic, a small
  platoon of British people from 1945 could be
  time-travelled sixty of so years into the future,
  what would they make of us? They would be
  nudging one another and trying not to laugh.
  They would be shocked by the different colours of
  skin. They would be surprised by the crammed and
  busy roads, the garish shops, the lack of smoke
  in the air. They would be amazed at how big so
  many of us are not just tall but shamefully
  fat. They would be impressed by the clean hair,
  the new-looking clothes and the youthful faces of
  the new British.

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• But they would feel shock and revulsion at the
  gross wastefulness, the food flown here from
  Zambia, or Peru then promptly thrown out of
  houses and supermarkets uneaten, the mountains of
  intricately designed and hurriedly discarded
  music players, television sets, and fridges,
  clothes and furniture the ugly marks of painted,
  distorted words on walls and the litter
  everywhere of plastic and coloured paper. They
  would wonder at our lack of church-going, our
  flagrant openness about sex, our divorce habit,
  alongside our amazingly warm and comfortable
  houses. They would then discuss it all in voices
  that might make us in turn laugh at them
  insufferably posh or quaintly regional.
• So although they might stare at us and ask, Who
  are these alien people? we could reply, We are
  you, what you chose to become.
• A History of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr, 2008

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• What will the next generation choose to become?
• What has been our role in guiding that choice?
• Whither the moral purpose?

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Ethical and unethical occupations
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Whos doing the right thing?
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• Civilisations are destroyed not by wickedness
• but spinelessness.
• (James Baldwin)

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• Hamlet clip

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A Three Rs Model of Leadership

• Reasoning
• Creative thinking to generate new and powerful
  ideas
• Critical and analytical thinking to ensure that
  the ideas (your own and those of others) are good
  ones
• Practical thinking to implement the ideas and
  persuade others of their value
• Wise thinking to ensure that the ideas help build
  a common good
• Resilience
• Willingness to defy the crowd in your thinking
  and actions to take the road less travelled
• Willingness to surmount obstacles in trying to
  achieve your goals
• Passion in your pursuits going for your goals
  with drive, motivation, and personal involvement
• Self-efficacy belief in your ability to achieve
  your goals

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A Three Rs Model of Leadership

• Responsibility
• Ethics distinguishing right from wrong
• Wisdom forging or following a path that
  represents a common good and balances your own
  interests with those of others
• Care genuine understanding of and empathy for
  others well-being that goes beyond an
  intellectual sense that you should care
• Right action not only knowing the right thing
  to do, but doing it.

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Issues and Challenges

• Effects upon students of-
• Economic downturn relative poverty of
  significant minority
• Changed and changing society
• Health
• Curriculum redefined Diplomas and PSHE
• New structures and governance

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Debt and its consequences
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Debt and its consequences
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Health

• 2002 obesity levels as reported by CMO
• Obesity levels in England have tripled in the
  past two decades around 21 of men and 24 of
  women are now obese
• Between 1996 2001 the proportion of obese
  children aged 6-15 years rose by 3.5
• Obesity is responsible for 2,000 premature deaths
  each year in England, and reduced life expectancy
  by, on average, 9 years
• Obesity costs the economy at least 2.5 billion a
  year including costs to the NHS and cost to
  industry through sickness absence

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Estimated numbers of obese men, 2003 and 2010 by
social class
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Estimated numbers of obese women, 2003 and 2010
by social class
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Why arent people more active?

• During the period 1975/1976 to 1998/2000 the
  average distance walked per person per year fell
  from 255 miles to 189 miles. Over the same
  period, the average annual distance travelled by
  bicycle fell from 51 miles to 39 miles
• The proportion of primary school children walking
  to school has fallen from 62 in 1989/1991 to 54
  in 1999/2001 and those travelling by care
  increased from 27 to 39. A similar pattern was
  evident for secondary school children
• Increased car ownership
• Fewer manual jobs
• Increased ownership of labour-saving devices
• Greater participation in sedentary leisure
  activities

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Girls aged 11 15 Overweight Obesity
Prevalence 1995 - 2004
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Boys aged 11 15 Overweight Obesity Prevalence
1995 - 2004
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Governance

• I regret the lack of capacity of local
  communities to set their own autonomous goals .
  our children are now being educated in schools
  which arent really community schools in any
  meaningful sense of the word community.
• (Michael Gove)

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Governance

• A call upon local democracy or local
  accountability?

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Characteristics of highly performing public
services
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Local Government the future?
People
Childrens Trust
Central Government

• Multi agency

• Legislation

• Commissioned Services

• Hypothecated Grant

• Field forces

• Plans Central Strategy

Elected Members
Officers
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Kent Childrens Trust Proposed Sub Structure
DRAFT - Sept 2008
The Kent Partnership Paul Carter, KCC Leader
Government ECM Children Act 2004 National
Children's Plan
DCS Lead Member
The Kent Public Service Board Paul Carter
Public Health Board Meradin Peachey
Kent Economic Board Sir Graeme Odgers
Safer Stronger Communities Group Peter Gilroy
Kent Childrens Trust Graham Badman, DCS
Kent Childrens Safeguarding Board Graham Badman
Parents / Carers Reference Group Children / YP
Reference Group
KCT Executive Group
KDAAT Amanda Honey

• Working Groups for the Executive
• Commissioning
• CYPP Performance Management
• Integrated Working Processes
• Participation
• Workforce

County Youth Justice Board Amanda Honey
KCT CORE SUB GROUPS
14-19 Kent Strategic Forum (Gordon Bernard)
Housing (to be established)
Early Years Childcare Extended Schools (Ian
Craig)
Specific Needs Group (to be established)
8-13 CYP Group (Chair to be identified)
CYP Health Commissioning Group (to be
established)
Local Childrens Services Partnerships
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• Localism beyond electoral mandate
• Reconfiguration of services
• A new participatory local democracy
• Local Government or Local Administration?

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• There is more to the doing than bidding it be
  done.
• (Charles I)