Summer Examination Result Days – Request for support
Post 16/A level results day is 16th August
KS4/GCSE results day is 23rd August
The Local Authority greatly values the support of all Warwickshire’s state-funded secondary schools and academies during August, providing provisional Post 16 and Key Stage 4 results. This allows an early view of the 2018 performance of young people across Warwickshire.
The collections will run again this year on both result days and many of you will already have received e-mails from our Insight Service (insight@warwickshire.gov.uk) confirming school contact and collection process details.
Like last year, we’ll be asking colleagues to complete these google forms, if possible by 11am on each results day:
Please do not delay your return even if your school’s results are incomplete, please include a comment in the space provided on the form to draw attention to any shortcomings that you know or suspect.
All schools that agree that their "data may be shared with other Warwickshire state funded schools", will receive a school level spreadsheet of provisional results once compiled, usually the day after each results day. If you indicate that the data is just for Local Authority use at this time you will not receive this spreadsheet.
Any queries at all, please contact the Insight Service: insight@warwickshire.gov.uk
New web-portal to provide schools with access to up-to-date intelligence and reports
** Please look out for an email to the headteacher in September with log in details for Perspective Lite. **
During the summer term staff in Education and Learning have been piloting a new module of the Nexus system called Pendulum. Nexus is a secure portal used by local authorities to analyse and report on education data and Pendulum is an additional function that Warwickshire has chosen to adopt to enable the Council to effectively monitor all of it's interactions with schools and settings.
The Pendulum module sits inside Nexus and will be used as a whole Council tool, which will enable us to save management information about schools and settings in one place. This will mean intelligence about individual settings is easily accessible to officers and that this is not lost when members of staff move on.
It offers a 'dashboard' style layout with one page for each school/setting; from this page officers can access:
- the latest Ofsted reports from the Ofsted website
- Records of Visits (these are shared with the school/setting)
- Quick notes (these are not viewable by schools/settings)
The system also includes a location map, school details from the census and live data received for national assessments (primary only). The system will not include any child-level information.
Pendulum allows settings to be sorted into various groupings to provide a useful picture of the provision in a particular area, for example they can be grouped by primary consortia, secondary area partnership and schools within a MAT.
Pendulum is now up and running and being used by officers to store records of visit and information relating to individual settings.
Perspective Lite is the free toolkit provided to education settings that provides them with a window into Pendulum. It contains a range of tools that will provide up-to-date intelligence in a number of areas such as local authority documents, visit reports, realtime data trends, interactive reports and news. Schools/settings will only be able to view their own page in Perspective Lite, whereas Council officers will have access to the information held on all schools/settings via Pendulum.
Infographic - tells the story of your school on a single page
Perspective Lite will be rolled out to to all Warwickshire schools in the autumn term. In September headteachers will receive an email containing log in details for Perspective Lite. Once logged in to the system, this will enable them to view their school's page and to see their 'inbox' where news articles and recent updates are stored.
** Please look out for an email to the headteacher in September with log in details for Perspective Lite. **
Demonstrations in the Autumn Term
To provide some initial training on how the system works, demonstrations will take place at the Secondary Area Headteachers' meetings (CASH, RASH, SWEP, NASCHL) and the Primary Chairs' Consortia Group (formerly PSIB) in September. If primary consortia would like further support then Phil Ransford, Project Manager for the Pendulum role out would be happy to attend individual consortium meetings in the Autumn Term.
In the meantime, if you have any queries you can contact Phil at philipransford@warwickshire.gov.uk or by telephone: 01926 742064.
New statutory safeguarding guidance
The Department for Education has published two pieces of statutory safeguarding guidance. These set the framework within which all practitioners should operate in order to protect children from abuse and neglect and promote their best interests, they can be accessed here and are:
- Revised Working Together to Safeguard Children statutory guidance; and
- Local Safeguarding – Transitional Arrangements statutory guidance.
Ofsted inspection of Warwickshire's 'Children in Need'
Yesterday (Tuesday 10th July) the County Council received formal notification from Ofsted that they will be undertaking a focused visit next week between Tuesday 17 July - Wednesday 18 July.
The visit will focus on ‘Children in Need, and those subject to a Child Protection Plan’, including:
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thresholds
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step-up/step-down between children in need and child protection
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children on the edge of care
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children subject to letter before proceedings and the quality and impact of pre-proceedings interventions
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children in need at risk of family breakdown
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the quality of decisions about entering care
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protection of disabled children
The inspectors will be based at Saltisford Office Park, Warwick and will be visiting teams and sites during their visit.
In advance of their visit we will be providing them with key documentation and performance information. If you are asked to provide information, it would be really helpful if you could do so as soon as possible.
During their visit the inspectors will:
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Meet with social workers to understand the nature and impact of their work with children and families
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Observe practice in multi-agency/single agency meeting or part of meeting
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Shadow staff in their day-to day work
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Scrutinise electronic records
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Evaluate children’s records that have already been audited
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Hear views of Children and Young People and their families
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See and hear the impact of local consultation with Children & Young People
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Test thresholds
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Review a sample of supervision records and carers records
As appropriate could you please also notify any local partners you work closely with.
As an organisation we put children at the heart of all we do and we are committed to doing the very best to protect children and help them reach their full potential. Keeping children safe, and helping them to be healthy and happy is everyone’s responsibility.
We will keep everyone informed of key developments as soon as we can. Your co-operation and support during the inspection process is greatly appreciated.
If you have any questions about the inspection please contact the Ofsted Inspection Planning Team: OfstedInspection@warwickshire.gov.uk