Support for Primary Consortia and Secondary Area Networks
Support for Primary Consortia and Secondary Area Networks
- £5000 will be paid into school budgets for primary consortia chairs and to chairs of secondary area networks to support them as they fulfil their role. We ask that consortia and the area networks confirm their 2020/2021 Chairs with Hilary Honess (hilaryhoness@warwickshire.gov.uk ) by Friday 11th September to enable payments to be set up. Secondary colleagues will note that this is a new fund: the LA is keen to maintain and strengthen its relationship with our secondary schools and we hope that this support for area networks will facilitate this.
Two additional funds will be made available:
Fund 1: Recovery
- Fund allocations are being made available to primary consortia and secondary area networks.
- The allocation for each primary consortium is based pro-rata on the number of schools and pupils in each with a minimum payment of £5,000. Secondary area networks will receive £8,000. Once we know who your chair is for 2020/21, Sophie Thompson will email to confirm the allocation and payment details for your consortium/network.
- This resource is to enable a flexible and local approach so consortia/area networks can identify key priorities closely linked to needs of individual/groups of schools and enable small scale, high impact interventions to take place
- In order to access this funding, each primary consortia and area network will need to complete the attached plan by Friday 2nd October. A brief evaluation will be required (details included in action plan) and reported to AAGs by June 2021.
- There is a separate fund for strengthening remote learning allocated to primary consortia (see below).
Fund 2: Remote Learning
- This is an additional allocation to enable schools to strengthen and continue the work they have already started on Remote Learning.
- Each consortium will be asked to nominate an expert lead for remote learning from within one of their schools. The fund will contribute to management time to release the expert leads for work within their own school, support for other schools and to attend training/expert lead meetings
- This work will be supported by the SAS (Strategic Advice and Support) team within ICT Development Service (ICTDS).
- Further information on this proposal will be published in the coming weeks.