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1. Closing the funding gap

Presentation Themes

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1. Closing the funding gap

2. Schools Company (HLT)

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1. Closing the funding gap

2. Schools Company (HLT)

3. Service Framework

Presentation Themes

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1. Closing the funding gap

2. Schools Company (HLT)

3. Service Framework

4. Expansions programme

Presentation Themes

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1. Closing the funding gap

2. Schools Company (HLT)

3. Service Framework

4. Expansions programme

5. Academies programme

Presentation Themes

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1. Closing the funding gap

2. Schools Company (HLT)

3. Service Framework

4. Expansions programme

5. Academies programme

6. Free Schools

Presentation Themes

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1. Closing the funding gap

2. Schools Company (HLT)

3. Service Framework

4. Expansions programme

5. Academies programme

6. Free Schools

7. Troubled Families

Presentation Themes

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Savings to Find

Identifies Savings

Funding Gap

1. The Gap in Public Sector Funding1. The Gap in Public Sector Funding

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1. The Gap in Public Sector Funding1. The Gap in Public Sector Funding

The next Comprehensive Spending Review!

Further cuts almost inevitable

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GovernanceTo include Chair, ‘Chief Executive’ & Mgt team

& representatives from: Primary, Secondary, Special Sectors;

Local Authority; Teaching Schools; Other strategic partners

Traded services for schools

Brokerage & QA of other school-to-school

servicese.g.· Teaching Schools· NLEs, LLEs, SLEs· Master Teachers

Horizon Scanning: Mediating Layer

e.g.· Data analysis &

benchmarking· National policy analysis &

dissemintation

LA statutory functions and

locally commissioned

projects

Sponsor of Academies and Free Schools ??

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Hertfordshire Association of

Secondary School Headteachers

Hertfordshire Primary Heads

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Hertfordshire County Council

Hertfordshire Special Schools

Forum

Herts for Learning Website

Business Management

Hertfordshire Schools

Schools & Local Partnerships

Schools & Local Partnerships access services & school to

school support

2. Hertfordshire Learning Trust2. Hertfordshire Learning Trust

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• Most potential ‘show stoppers’ have been addressed

• Support from most schools

• Political support

• ‘Pump priming’ funding

• The need for a ‘fighting fund’ to support struggling schools

• Shadow Board in place later this term to make key decisions

• Company to go live and begin trading in time April 2013

GovernanceTo include Chair, ‘Chief Executive’ & Mgt team

& representatives from: Primary, Secondary, Special Sectors;

Local Authority; Teaching Schools; Other strategic partners

Traded services for schools

Brokerage & QA of other school-to-school

servicese.g.· Teaching Schools· NLEs, LLEs, SLEs· Master Teachers

Horizon Scanning: Mediating Layer

e.g.· Data analysis &

benchmarking· National policy analysis &

dissemintation

LA statutory functions and

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projects

Sponsor of Academies and Free Schools ??

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Hertfordshire Association of

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Hertfordshire Primary Heads

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Hertfordshire County Council

Hertfordshire Special Schools

Forum

Herts for Learning Website

Business Management

Hertfordshire Schools

Schools & Local Partnerships

Schools & Local Partnerships access services & school to

school support

2. Hertfordshire Learning Trust2. Hertfordshire Learning Trust

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3. Children Services Framework3. Children Services Framework

Additional needs can be met in school

Universal Services

• A minority of children

• Training and support for schools

In need of the support of outside agencies

Targeted Support

• Integrated Services for Learning

• As a school or via a partnership

Critical - likely to put child at risk of harm

Specialist Services

• Refer direct to social services

No identified additional needs

Universal Services

• The great majority of children

• Schools’ core business

Children’s Need Responding to Need

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Critical - likely to put child at risk of harm

Specialist Services

• Refer direct to social services

Children’s Need Responding to Need

Education and Early Intervention

3. Children Services Framework3. Children Services Framework

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Children’s Need Responding to Need

Education and Early Intervention

Safeguarding and Specialist Services

3. Children Services Framework3. Children Services Framework

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Demand for Year 7 Places

4. The Expansion Programme4. The Expansion Programme

• An unprecedented increase in demand

• Demand is not evenly spread - hot spots

• Capital programme fully funded by DfE

• A maximum working budget of £95m forprimary school places

• 40 separate capital programmes

• Expanding existing schools if possible

• Temporary and permanent expansions and some new build

• Having to fight communities to educate their own children!

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Demand for Year 7 Places

• A new school in SW Herts- 3 possible sites being evaluated

• Samuel Ryder 3 - 19 Academy

• Elstree University Technical College

• Two Studio Schools - Stevenage and Letchworth

• Berkhamsted converting to a two tier system from 2013

Intervention and Structural Change

4. The Expansion Programme4. The Expansion Programme

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Demand for Year 7 Places

Intervention and Structural Change

4. The Expansion Programme4. The Expansion Programme

• Royston schools established a federated academy model

• Possible relocation of Southfield School

• Relocation and rebuilding of Bishop’s Stortford High School and the Herts and Essex High School

• Priority schools building programme

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• Longdean

• Westfield

• Kings Langley

• Bishops Hatfield Girls

• Goffs

• Highfield

• Garston Manor Special School

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• Longdean

• Westfield

• Kings Langley

• Bishops Hatfield Girls

• Goffs

• Highfield

• Garston Manor Special School

4. The Expansion Programme4. The Expansion Programme

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5. The Academies Programme5. The Academies Programme

Phase Converted Converting Totals %

Secondary 43 10 53 69.7%

Primary 13 6 19 4.6%

Special 1 3 4 16%

Middle 2 1 3 50%

All Through 1 0 1 100%

ESC 0 1 1 12.5%

Totals 60 21 81 14.4%

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• Support schools wishing to convert

• Encourage academies to collaborate for the benefit of children

• Help schools through the process - but protect our assets

• Prepare for the financial impact- reduced central funding

The County Council’s Position

5. The Academies Programme5. The Academies Programme

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6. The Free Schools Programme6. The Free Schools Programme

• Two Free Schools opened Sept 2012

• Three more planned for September 2013

Other Free school proposals

• Changemakers - Harpenden

• An existing Hare Krishna School

• Reach Learning - SW Hertfordshire

A key element of the expansions programme

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7. Troubled Families7. Troubled Families

• A national initiative focused on the country’s most challenging families:- children not attending school- parents long term unemployed- criminal activity

• 1,350 troubled families identified across Hertfordshire

• Families meeting all three criteria automatically eligible

• LA to use discretion over families meeting any two criteria

• £4.5m over 3 years - payments by results

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What’s Going on What’s Going on Around you?Around you?

Hertfordshire Music Service

Justin Donovan(Director of Education)