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Education. What have we learned? Issues and interventions ? Improving Educational Attainment in Deprived Areas Wednesday 13 February 2008 Paul Robinson. Role of NDC in Education. Increase attainment levels Increase parental involvement in schools Increase community engagement in education

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  1. Education What have we learned?Issues and interventions? Improving Educational Attainment in Deprived Areas Wednesday 13 February 2008 Paul Robinson

  2. Role of NDC in Education • Increase attainment levels • Increase parental involvement in schools • Increase community engagement in education • Target NEET and Lifelong Learning

  3. Interventions • Series of strategic projects • Context of strategic partnerships • Delivered by operational networks • Variety of projects from early years to adult education • What has been the impact?

  4. Impact in Ocean Area • Key stage 1 & 2 results at Borough or National Average • Key stage 3 with local schools improving faster than Borough Average • Key stage 4 GCSE results outstrips London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) and National Average

  5. Qualitative Impact • Greater engagement in education • Satisfaction levels with schools and education offer increased year by year (MORI surveys) • Inclusive projects create involvement and engagement • Emphasise the economic and social mobility values for local residents

  6. NEET • Establish adult education partnership (AEP) • Use AEP to create network of FE College, HE, Employment Agencies and Community Centres • Analyse NEET category via schools, FE College, DWP • Establish Ocean Job Shop

  7. Ocean Job Shop • Reduce employment barriers • Foundation work with business • Job Brokerage • Fast track employment (Jobs in Health) • Increase employment opportunities for women • Establish Job Shop as Social Enterprise (Community Interest Company)

  8. What Have We Learned? • Promote education as a social good • Raise expectations in education & employment • Establish progression paths and publicise successes • Partnerships with local employers who value local residents as employees

  9. Open Partnerships • Lasting partnerships with local communities, statutory and third sector agencies • Mutually beneficial partnerships • Develop at own pace to create innovative work • Areas - education, regeneration, community development, crime reduction, housing, health and employment • Holistic regeneration impacting on all aspects of lives of residents • Effective partnerships build good will and understanding • Proactive approach to bids and funding opportunities • Flexible and pragmatic in seeking funding • Magnets for inward investment - success breeds success

  10. Strategic Partners • Job Shop - ELBA, Job Centre Plus, Skillsmatch, contracts • AYC - TH College, Home Office, LAPS, Children in Need, European Integration Fund etc • Limehouse Project - Shahjalal, OCC, Sure Start, BYM, PCT, Stepney Health Centre • Schools - LBTH, Extended Schools, NRF, Sports Council, EBP, Charities • Support successful partners • Success based on their succession strategic work • Onus on inward investment for partnership work • Work must fit with strategic targets of ORT, LBTH, PCT etc • Imaginative and innovative partnership work that will be funded

  11. Quality Circle ORT Partnership Work Customised Services Effective Partnerships Inward Investment

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