Enjoy & Achieve Outcome Theme Group

Minutes - 28th January 2008

Time: 9-00am – 11-00am

Venue: Flowery Children’s Centre, Hyde

Present:

Steve Noble, SCYP Bev Connolly, SCYP Sue Garnett, SCYP Graham Ashford, School Improvement, SCYPCaroline Gregory, Principal Neighbourhood Renewal OfficerLyndsey Whiteside, Tameside School Sport PartnershipKim Brooks, SCYP LACCatherine Moseley, SCYP TMBCStephanie Jones, LSCGill Gibson, Locality Co-ordinator T&G PCT

Note taker: Joanne Buckley

Item 1: Welcome

Steve Noble welcomed all to the Sixth meeting of the Enjoy and Achieve group, particularly Gill Gibson as it was her first meeting. Brief introductions were made.

Item 2: Apologies

The following apology was received:No aplogies received

Item 3: Minutes of the last meeting

The minutes of the meeting held on 6th November 08 were agreed as a true and correct record. There were no matters arising.

Item 4: Feedback on report to the Partnership

Steve fed back information from the Partnership meeting, one of the points raised at the meeting was a wider membership for the Enjoy & Achieve Group. Sue noted that she will write to Managers for representatives from:·

• Primary Schools
• Cultural Services
• Children’s Centres

SG will feed this back at the next Enjoy & Achieve and Partnership Meetings.

Action: SG to write to Managers for representatives for the group.

Item 5: Outcome Theme 3.3 - RevisitedAction is taken to ensure that educational provision for 15 – 16 year old is of good quality.

Graham distributed an updated version of his report in non report card format. GA gave a brief overview of the report, discussing some of the statistical information. It was noted that there is still work to be done to improve education provision for 15 – 16 years olds, but there is also a lot of positive things going on as well. SG asked if short summaries could be added to each graph on the report. GA also noted that he would transfer the report onto a report card for the next meeting.A couple of administration errors were noted on the report these were, Page 9 should say Higher Attaining Pupils, and this was not visible on the report. Also on the same page within the 1st paragraph it states TRASST this should be COLT. This will be amended by the next meeting. The group agreed that the judgement on this would be done at the next meeting.

Action: Graham to transfer the report to report card format, and to amend errors.

Item 6: Report Card 3.1 Parents and carers receive support in helping their children to enjoy and achieve

Catherine gave feedback to the group. A small group met to discuss this report card with Sue Jones from the Children’s Information Service, discussing appropriate impact measures. CM noted that she has also been working with the Parent Partnership Team and they are going to look into devising a measurement tool/process to measure impact. The group agreed that the judgement for this should be Heartening as many positive things are being done in supporting parents and carers in helping their children to enjoy and achieve. Action: CM & Parent Partnership to look into devising a measuring tool to measure service impact.The group raised their concerns on the language used to judge the report cards and it was noted that the Heartening & Troubling language currently used is being looked into already by the area co-ordinators.

Item 7: Update 3.2 Early Years Provision

This matter was deferred, as Joyce Swann was absent from the meeting.

Item 8: Update 3.6 Recreational Activities

Lyndsey gave a current update on her report card. It was noted that working is still ongoing figures in the report indicate that there is an improvement in children doing out of hours sport. LW advised that she would collate some evidence to be included in her report and send to SG for her portfolio.

Action: LW will collate evidence for her report and send to Sue Garnett for her portfolio.

Item 9: New programme of work

It was noted that new dates for 2008 have previously been sent out by Joanne. SG advised that she has produced a document for the group that contains Key Judgements from the Performance Indicators and LAA targets for this years work programme. SG noted that she would distribute this to the group for digestion before the next meeting.Action: SG will distribute the Key Judgements to the group.

Item 10: Any Other Business

Report CardsSG noted that 3 new report cards have been done by Kim for Looked After Children.

1. Educational Achievement for Looked After Children

KB read through the report card and noted that the graphs differentiated between local and national average. It was noted that there are lots of positive things going on and many support mechanisms in place, but there are still work to be done on issues arising. KB gave examples of some of the packages that are already in place. The group agreed that this report card is moving in the right direction and therefore gave a judgement of Heartening. KB advised that if anyone knows of any activities that are going on in Tameside that would fit in with the report card to pass these onto her. It was agreed that the progress on this report card would be monitored.

2. Personal Education Plan

This report card is specific to Personal Education Plans for looked after children, looking into making plans better, working with schools and designated staff to achieve this. SG suggested meeting with KB to discuss this report card further and will give a judgement when this has been completed.

3. Attendance of Looked After Children

This report card focuses on exclusion of Looked After Children in Tameside. KB gave a brief overview of the report, again SG and KM will meet to discuss this in more detail before a judgement is made.

Item 11: Date & time of the next meeting

The date and time of the next meeting is Monday 10th March 2008, 9.00am – 11.00am, Flowery Field Children’s Centre.

It was agreed at the meeting that due to the traffic around Flowery Field in a morning, that members should try to arrive for 8.45am for coffee ready for a 9.00am start.