
Achieving Common Purpose in Education and Voluntary Sector Organizations
Understanding the purposes of education and voluntary sector organizations, exploring how they intersect, common barriers to achieving their purposes, and initiatives by Learn Sheffield to support vulnerable learners in education. Key topics include better life chances through education, overcoming fragmentation in the educational landscape, enhancing readiness, and providing pathway information. Barriers to success, such as quality information delivery and sustainable impact, are also addressed.
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What is the purpose of education? What is the purpose of voluntary sector (and similar) organisations? When/how do they have a common purpose? What are the barriers to achieving this common purpose?
Role of Learn Sheffield Who/What are we? What are we trying to achieve? How will we know if we have been successful? What is the strategic vision what are we going to do? Stephen Betts (CEO - Learn Sheffield) Thursday 14th July 2016 Emotional Wellbeing Stakeholder Event
Purpose of education better life chances achievement (opens doors) & readiness (to walk through those doors)
Educational landscape fragmentation Overcome pathways between schools and rest of the world e.g. cultural partners Mental Health Physical Health Attendance & Punctuality Early Years Transitions Career Pathways Citizenship
Readiness Mental Health Physical Health Attendance & Punctuality Early Years Transitions Career Pathways Citizenship
What are we going to do to support schools to support vulnerable learners? Why is the focus on schools? What do we mean by vulnerable? Why focus on learning?
We are going to create clear pathway information What do we mean by universal support? S What do we mean by targeted support? T U What do we mean by specialists support?
What are the barriers to providing pathway information successfully? Right Information quality & objectivity Accessible delivery & communication Sustainable impact tracked & well maintained
How do we get the right pathway information? Universal key headline information (support identification) Universal - signposting to more information / resources Targeted school interventions & provider contacts Specialist referral contacts
How do we deliver and communicate the pathway information? Posters recognisable format & systematic approach Website single known point of access School ownership identified workforce System ownership
How do we ensure that the pathway information is up to date? Each poster (aspect of vulnerability) needs to have a custodian Custodians need to be commissioned/agreed Impact needs to be monitored to determine quality and the depth of collaboration
Group Exercise 1 1. What would good provision look like? 2. What do schools need to know? 3. What resources are available? Universal Identification? Resources?
Considering key principles of collaboration and quality Targeted - Interventions Group Exercise 2 What do we need to ensure quality provision? Universal Identification? Resources?
Next Steps Include this work in the release version of the Priorities document Design template produced Commissions out custodians and other providers identified Pace! Completed, distributed & online within a hundred school days February half term.