Developing Excellence in Offender learning delivered by sector experts

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data collection, analysis & evidencing learners’ softer skills and wider outcomes / data collection and analysis in shaping and informing the curriculum offer / data management to inform decision making and improve and enhance future performance / improving attendance and allocations in prisons
a whole organisational approach to the induction and assessment process / improving outcomes by taking a whole organisational approach to problem solving / creating an ‘inspection ready’ organisation / everything you need to know about learning & skills, but were too afraid to ask
a whole organisational approach to quality improvement – from strategy to classroom / quality improvement plans that are developed and owned by the whole organisation / performance management, lesson observations and self-assessment reports / creating an ambitious organisation
Views from an Ofsted secondment - reinforcing the value and impact of the self-assessment process in the improvement agenda / creating a rigorous and reliable and self-assessment report / maximising the use of the virtual campus / Looking up and broadening horizons: Innovation, Evolution and Adaptation
Title / Description / Deliveredby :
data collection, analysis & evidencing learners’ softer skills and wider outcomes / Who is this workshop for?
  • All prison managers and curriculum leads
This workshop will help you to:
  • Identify and appreciate the importance of partnership working across the prison
  • Consider the range of priorities and look at opportunities for collaboration
  • Discuss data collection and analysis focusing on how to identify the value added benefits of learning and skills both in prison industries and within OLASS
  • Take away some practical tips and ideas for implementation
/ Kerry Boffey, A4E Manchester college, improvement advisor
data collection and analysis in shaping and informing the curriculum offer / Who is this workshop for?
  • All prison managers and curriculum leads
This workshop will help you to:
  • Work with delivery teams to understand and make use of data to raise standards
  • Work with teams to better understand delivery variables and how these impact on learner progress
  • Shape and inform the curriculum offer by having an improved understanding of how to make the best use of data
/ Daniel Kane, Manchester college , senior MI lead
data management to inform decision making and improve and enhance future performance / Who is this workshop for?
  • Curriculum managers,heads of reducing reoffending, learning and skills managers, activities hub managers, curriculum administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop supervisors and resettlement managers
This workshop will help you to:
  • Evaluate your current practice and share ideas to improve and enhance future practice
  • Develop your skills in curriculum planning; data collection & analysis
  • Use data to inform decision making & performancemonitoring
/ Alastair Phelpstead, Weston college, project director operations business planning & performance
improving attendance and allocations in prisons / Who is this workshop for?
  • The workshop will be aimed at everyone who is involved in the allocation and attendance process. This will include: learning and skills managers, heads of reducing & reoffending, education managers and residentialmanagers
This workshop will help you to:
  • To gain a better understanding of thecomplexities of allocation and attendance
  • To appreciate the pressures and priorities for each individual role involved with allocation and attendance
  • Understand why it is so important to foster better partnership collaboration
/ Pete Nash, head of learning and skillscluster lead
a whole organisational approach to the induction and assessment process / Who is this workshop for?
  • The workshop will be aimed at those that are involved in the induction and assessment process. This will include: learning and skills managers, heads of reducing reoffending, education managers, activity managers, offender management unit managers and residentialmanagers
This workshop will help you to:
  • Develop the sequencing of the offender journey whilst at establishment through the effective use of skills action plans and OASIS sentence planning
  • Identify areas within your own establishment that would profit from more effective partnership working such as improved attendance, success rates and retention
/ Danny Branley, head of learning & skills Dartmoorprison
improving outcomes by taking a whole organisational approach to problem solving / Who is this workshop for?
  • Prison SMT, education managers and NCS managers
This workshop will help you to:
  • Understand the benefits of a whole organisation approach
  • Develop and apply a joint approach to increasing attendance in education
  • Understand how to use this to demonstrate effective leadership and management at inspection
/ Sue Saxton,head of learning & skills, cluster 2 east of England
creating an ‘inspection ready’ organisation / Who is this workshop for?
  • Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations, curriculum administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop supervisors and resettlement managers
This workshop will help you to:
  • Evaluate your current practice and provoke new ideas to improve and enhance future practice
  • Prepare your staff for inspection
  • Present accurate evidence during inspection
  • Anticipate and respond to challenges
  • Network with colleagues and share effective practice
/ Andy Coxon, Weston college,
assistant director compliance & standards
Everything you need to know about learning & skills, but were too afraid to ask / Who is this workshop for?
  • Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations, curriculum administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop supervisors and resettlement managers.
This workshop will help you to:
  • Develop the knowledge of prison staff in terms of learning & skills
  • Support staff that are new to learning & skills to work more effectively in the sector
  • Develop your knowledge in the three critical zones. The training will cover key elements of the OLASS contract: curriculum / funding / assurance & governance
/ John Platt, Stephen Oliver-Watts & Janet Long, The regional & cluster Holse in the NW
a whole organisational approach to quality improvement – from strategy to classroom / Who is this workshop for?
  • Curriculum managers,heads of reducing reoffending, learning and skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations, curriculum administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop supervisors and resettlement managers
This workshop will help you to:
  • Develop your skills so that you can contribute to raising standards across the regime with a focus onintegrated curriculum design and planning
  • Support the skills development within prison industries
  • Respond to national priorities at a regional and local level
/ Mark Shovlin, Manchester college
quality improvement plans that are developed and owned by the whole organisation / Who is this workshop for?
  • Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations.
This workshop will help you to:
  • Work with your staff team to build and deliver improvement plans with a focus on;
- Responding to local priorities
- Staff involvement and engagement
  • Develop best practice in quality improvement
  • Work with and within the regime- challenging preconceptions of what can be done
/ Mairi Anne McLeaod,Manchester college
performance management, lesson observations and self-assessment reports / Who is this workshop for?
  • Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and skills managers, activities hubmanagers, allocations, curriculum administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop supervisors and resettlement managers.
This workshop will help you to:
  • Evaluate current practice and develop new ideas to improve and enhance future practice in :
  • SAR & QIP; Lesson Observations; Performance Management & IQA
/ Alan Brockbank
quality manager, Weston college
creating an ambitious organisation / Who is this workshop for?
  • Leaders and managers from the prison, OLASS and NCS providersincluding prison SMT, education manager and NCS lead
This workshop will help you to:
  • Work together to raise ambition
  • Prepare for inspection, including recognition of shortcomings and good practice
  • Improve leadership and management practice
  • Raise awareness of the role of Governors and the senior management team
/ Sue Saxtonhead of learning & skills, cluster 2 east of England
Views from an Ofsted secondment - reinforcing the value and impact of the self-assessment process in the improvement agenda / Who is this workshop for?
  • Band 6 learning & skills managers, heads of reducing reoffending
  • OLASS education managers
  • Anyone with responsibility for producing an establishment SAR
This workshop will help you to:
Apply this learning to your own planning and leave with a series of actions to take forward
  • Reflect on your prison’s self-assessment process and improvement action plans
  • Understand how valuable self-assessment is
  • Recognise theappropriate strengths and areas for development
  • Userobust evidence to make evaluations and formulate judgements
/ Darryl Jones, west midlands cluster lead
head of learning & skills
creating a rigorous and reliable and self-assessment report / Who is this workshop for?
  • Learning & skills managers, heads of reducing reoffending
  • OLASS education managers
  • Anyone with responsibility for producing an establishment SAR
This workshop will help you to:
  • Develop a rigorous and reliable Self-Assessment process toensure an integrated approach in raising standards
  • Understand the key considerations when developing a SAR
  • Unpick the complexity of prisons and prison interventions/ activity
/ Malcolm Bruce,Manchester college
maximising the use of the virtual campus / Who is this workshop for?
  • Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and skills managers, curriculumadministrators, teaching teams, partner organisations and resettlement managers.
This workshop will help you to:
  • Undertake an evaluation of current practice and ideas to improve and enhance future practice
  • Develop your knowledge of enabling access to VC and supporting qualification delivery
  • Networking with colleagues and sharing effective practice
/ Weston college
Looking up and broadening horizons: Innovation, Evolution and Adaptation / Who is this workshop for?
  • Heads of reducing re-offending, learning, skills & employment managers, OLASS cluster, prison and curriculum managers, NCS and NOMS managers
The workshop will help you to :
  • Identify key external organisations with which you'd like to build new or improve existing relationships (e.g. Local Enterprise Partnerships, employers and the wider FE sector)
  • Identify potential opportunities and threats
  • Confirm up to 3 priorities on which to focus, all aimed at innovation which is ultimately aimed at benefiting offender learners
  • Identify risks and how these can potentially be managed
  • Incorporate innovation into your prison wide self assessment process and report.
/ Sheena Maberly, Southern cluster head of learning, skills & employment north east prisons