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Education

This article discusses the role of the NDC (National Development Corporation) in improving educational attainment in deprived areas. The interventions include increasing attainment levels, parental involvement in schools, community engagement in education, targeting NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) youth, and implementing strategic projects through operational networks. The impact includes improved Key Stage results, increased engagement and satisfaction levels, and creation of employment opportunities.

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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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