Behavior and Attendance Collaboratives: Improving Student Behavior and Attendance through Collaboration

1. Behaviour and Attendance Collaboratives • Response to DCSF expectations for schools to work in collaboration by September 2007 • To reduce: • Permanent Exclusion • Fixed Term Exclusion • Persistent Absence • Numbers of NEET • To improve: • behaviour • alternative curriculum options • multi-agency support

2. Behaviour and Attendance Collaboratives • Other key issues for schools: • 'Hard to Place' students • Admissions • Increasing numbers of students with very challenging behaviour • Concerns regarding LA SEBD provision • Lack of alternative provision for KS3 • CAF • Staff training

3. 3 BACs • 3 BACs established following restructure of Secondary Confederations: • 3 Valleys – 6 schools in Keighley area • Central – 14 schools in north, west and east Bfd • South – 9 schools • South BAC agreed: • Action plan Summer Term 2006-07 • Weekly meetings to drive agenda • SLT representation at each meeting

4. IMPACT • Exclusion • Significant reduction of PEx across the city – Zero PEx's in South Schools for the past year • Significant reduction in FT Ex – numbers of days lost to exclusion massively reduced through: • Introduction of Managed Moves – clear protocols established to help improve transfer of hard to place students across the schools • Development of PRU Prevention Placements • Use of each other's schools for 6th day provision

5. IMPACT • Attendance • Reduction in PA in majority of schools through • Improved knowledge of PA and tracking and monitoring across the schools • Development of Alternative Curriculum programmes in South and Central • Improvement in communication / work with Ed Bfd support services • Top slicing Ed Psych and ESW time • Developing strategy for use of SEBD team • Adoption of budget for District PRU non-statemented students

6. IMPACT • Improved relationships with schools in each BAC • sense of shared ownership of potential PEx students across the schools • Common SEBD programmes for students across schools • Anger Management for KS3 • KS3 and KS4 Alternative Provision • Strength in numbers for commissioning provision, negotiating contracts and improving quality assurance of provision • Common staff training on key SEBD issues • SEAL • Positive Parenting Programme • CAF

7. ISSUES • Cost • SLT time each week • BAC Coordinator roles • Insecure budgets – due to impact shown now beginning to attract funding • LA SEBD / SEN provision • Need to use Statutory Assessment for appropriate provision • Limited specialist provision for KS3 • Partnership working • Potential conflict with alignment of BACs with Localities

8. Partnership Working

9. Ed Bfd Service support shared by all schools in the BAC 10% ESWS, 10% Ed Psych, SEBD support BBEC, WYKE, QUEENSBURY YMCC, TONG, BFD ACADEMY GRANGE THORNTON DIXON'S ACADEMY Partnership Working SHARED STAFF – SHARED TIME SHARED STRATEGY – SHARED IMPROVEMENT

10. BBEC, WYKE, QUEENSBURY YMCC, TONG, BFD ACADEMY GRANGE THORNTON DIXON'S ACADEMY Resources shared amongst schools Resources shared with other schools Resources shared with other schools Partnership Working LA support dependent on development of different localities Mark Anslow Anne Mackay Mark Nichols

11. South BAC Thoughts • Logistical issues - how to deliver common programmes using resources that are shared by other schools • Youth Service hours – 25 for South plus a proportion of hours for the schools in other localities • Relevance of developments in South Locality to schools in other localities • Potential for greater consistency of servicedelivery across localities • BAC meetings used to inform schools of developments across the LA

12. South BAC Plans Stage 1 Inter-BAC development + Education Resources Stage 2 Intra-BAC development + Partnership Working Stage 3 Cross Phase development – Primary Sector