DAPH Autumn Briefing Event

On 16^th November 2011, over 150 headteachers and other school representatives attended the DAPH Autumn 2011 Briefing event at The Tiverton Hotel.

The morning Panel session provided attendees with a helpful and informative opportunity to hear first hand from senior officers and members of Devon County Council about recent organisational changes within the Local Authority, the new "single authority" approach to services and how schools fit into this transformed landscape.

During the afternoon, Kevin Jane HMI for Ofsted presented on the forthcoming changes to the Inspection Framework for Maintained Schools and Academies from January 2012.

Feedback received from those who attended has been extremely positive and, on behalf of the DAPH Executive and membership, we would like to thank the panel members and our guest presenter for contributing towards the success of this event.

Please click to view the following:

• DAPH Autumn 2011 Briefing Report (4.41MB - pdf help)
• Presentation slides from Sue Clarke, Head of Education and Learning (1.37MB - pdf help)
• Presentation slides from Kevin Jane HMI for Ofsted  on “The New Inspection Framework for Maintained Schools and Academies from January 2012”. (1.02MB - pdf help)

DAPH 2011 Annual School Leadership Conference

Just before half term, we were delighted to host the DAPH 2011 Annual School Leadership Conference at The Saunton Sands Hotel. With its theme of "Creativity in Learning......Innovation in Leadership" delegates were inspired by three keynote speakers and many took the opportunity to participate in a number of seminar workshops, browse two very different and re-vamped exhibition suites or take time out for some beauty treatments and/or Dedicated Headship Time in the wonderful surroundings of the hotel.

The formal dinner allowed for time for school leaders to network and catch up with colleagues whilst the Charity Pig Racing raised a commendable £441 for our nominated charity this year, NSPCC. A big thank you to those who contributed to this collection and also to NPS Group and Devon Norse Ltd who sponsored wine at dinner and pre-dinner drinks respectively.

We have already received some excellent and constructive feedback from delegates who attended the two day event and if you have yet to complete an evaluation form this will assist us greatly in the planning and arrangements for the 2012 event. Click for an electronic copy of the evaluation form which, once completed, should be returned to the DAPH Office by e-mail or post.

Click to view presentations by Contender Charlie (172KB - pdf help) and Paul Collard (2.64MB - pdf help) and a copy of the DAPH 2011 Annual School Leadership Conference Report (PDF version (758KB - pdf help)) (Word version) and which are intended to provide you with a summary of the programme content, a practitioner’s summary of the seminars/workshops you may not have been able to attend and space for you to use as best suits your own purpose.

In the meantime, on behalf of the DAPH Executive Committee, we would like to thank all the speakers, seminar and workshop hosts, exhibitors within both suites, SLSS and Wellbeing at Work, the staff at Saunton Sands, Stage Electrics, who all played a part in helping to make this year's conference such an enjoyable and rewarding success.

Dates for next year's 2012 Annual Conference have already been announced as 11th & 12th October 2012 and, based on the success of the last two years, we have once again booked The Saunton Sands Hotel. Further details will follow shortly together with the opportunity for an Early Booking Form - so look out for this to guarantee one of the sea facing bedrooms!

Future DAPH Briefings

*ANNOUNCEMENT*

From Spring 2011, the number of termly Briefing events will reduce from 4 to 2 events, with the aim to cover North and East regions together, and South and West regions together. Venues for these events have been carefully considered to accommodate all Headteachers attending. We have initially chosen the following venues:

• Tiverton Hotel (North & East)
• Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre (South & West)

We will be happy to review these arrangements in the future once we have experienced how they work in practice. We appreciate that this may involve more travel for some Headteachers, however, we will be scheduling a full and relevant agenda to ensure the Briefing events continue to deliver key messages and are considered effective use of time.

Revised Dates for future briefings are:

• Dates and online booking forms
• Current Delegate Lists -
  • Spring 2011 East-North DAPH Briefing - 1 February 2011, Tiverton Hotel (88KB - pdf help)
  • Spring 2011 South - West DAPH Briefing - 8 February 2011, Buckfast Abbey (82KB - pdf help)
  • Summer 2011 South - West DAPH Briefing - 24 May 2011, Buckfast Abbey (78KB - pdf help)
  • Summer 2011 East-North DAPH Briefing - 29 May 2011, Tiverton Hotel (79KB - pdf help)

Glossary of Common Acronyms & Abbreviations used within Children and Young People's Services (CYPS)

By popular request at the Summer Briefings we have drawn up a glossary (103KB - pdf help) of common acronyms and abbreviations as a point of reference for schools. A permanent link to the glossary will be available on the left hand side of every Update newsletter as well as on the DAPH website.

This list is by no means exhaustive and in the event that you come across something not listed please let us know and we will add it to the glossary.

DAPH Update - our weekly newsletter by email:

• DAPH Update Spring 2012 Issue 2
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