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Hertfordshire Foundation Learning Leads

Hertfordshire Foundation Learning Leads. Hertfordshire Foundation Learning Leads Meeting Wednesday 29 June 2011 Sue Owen-Evans. Tuesday 29 March 2011 Sue Owen-Evans. Objectives for the day. For participants to: review progress made with FL and celebrate success

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Hertfordshire Foundation Learning Leads

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  1. Hertfordshire Foundation Learning Leads Hertfordshire Foundation Learning Leads Meeting Wednesday 29 June 2011 Sue Owen-Evans Tuesday 29 March 2011 Sue Owen-Evans

  2. Objectives for the day For participants to: • review progress made with FL and celebrate success • explore the opportunities and challenges presented by developing FL as a pre-apprenticeship pathway • share examples of good practice and take forward approaches and ideas that work • identify key levers that can be used to engage senior leadership teams • harness new FL resources

  3. A view from the bridge ….but why this bridge? Sue Owen-Evans

  4. Current state of play YPLA Ofsted 4 Wolf CEIAG Emerging national and local messages SEN Green Paper Herts CC apprenticeship strategy Raising of participation age

  5. Key messages from YPLA re FL post-16 5 Greater flexibility generated by: • Unlisting of Functional Skills • Unlisting of Entry Level 1 (personal progress) offer for LLDD learners • Weekly funding for learners not ready to take qualifications • Use of non-externally accredited provision where appropriate • Widening the offer of accredited qualifications beyond QCF Issues providers need to address • Recognising and responding to prior attainment • Focusing on needs and destinations of learners and using these to drive the curriculum offer

  6. 16-19 Bursary Scheme 6

  7. EMA Developments 7

  8. Ofsted report on alternative provision June 2011 8

  9. What has been most successful in supporting and engaging schools? • Targeted, small scale projects that support partnership working and that meet an identified need • Effective use of funding to both generate and grow sustainable provision • Proactive use of the FL co-ordinator role as a focus for advice • Using findings of a student voice questionnaire to highlight curriculum need and drive change • Identifying beacons who lead by example and bring others with them • Building on established FE provision that is well respected and has the buy in of SLT in schools e.g Headstart • Setting up a focused FL Development/FL strategy group with a clear brief

  10. What difficulties have been encountered when working with schools? • Uncertainty created by reductions in funding and lack of govt direction with education policy • Profile of some schools which makes it difficult to get a foot in the door • Perception of GCSE as the gold standard by parents and some SLT • Time and cost associated with EV and IV training • UTC and studio school developments

  11. How are you tackling these challenges? • On your tables pick two of the difficulties that have been listed • Share strategies and approaches that you are, or that you will deploy, to find a positive way forward

  12. What is working well with FE and alternative providers? • Building relationships with key staff in FE and alternative provision • Partnerships that are emerging between FE and schools and schools and training providers • Flexibility that is being built into the FE offer i.e. import/export model, length of programmes, different starting points during the year • Finding and growing alternative provision • Using alternative provision to build sustainability within the schools

  13. What challenges have emerged when working with FE and alternative providers ? • Funding programmes – rising costs, the movement to cost recovery models as core funding goes • Undoing perceptions that some SLT have about the quality of alternative provision • Transition and progression from pre to post-16, especially for LLDD • Commissioning new providers – finding them, securing quality and value for money • Ensuring that when alternative provision is delivered on-site the culture of the school environment is recognised

  14. How are you tackling these challenges? On your tables share strategies and approaches that you are deploying to address: • transition and progression • procurement of services to get the best deal

  15. Next steps • What two immediate actions will you take from today? • How would you like to see these FL sessions developing for 2011/12? • - Who should attend? • - How could the sessions be structured? • - What could the content cover?

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