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Open access to our 3-day Good Management course
The purpose of this popular three-day Good Management course is to help community providers of supplementary education meet the minimum requirements for safe out-of-school provision.
It remains our firm mission to get local authorities to book the 3-day Good Management for Supplementary Schools course directly and offer it to supplementary schools under their remit. We have had an excellent response from Brent, Harrow, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Sheffield and Suffolk since launching the 3-day course and we’re keen to deliver in other authorities. Please take a look at the course content and get in touch to discuss further.
It is also, however, our mission to support community-led supplementary schools where the authorities are not able to support you. For this reason in January 2018, we are offering our popular 3-day Good Management course directly to individual learners. Whether you are planning to open a supplementary school, you have just joined the management committee of your child’s supplementary school or you have been running out of school activities for many years and you need to check that you are doing everything in line with current policy and good practice – our 3-day Good Management course will help you.
You can meet all your New Year’s resolutions at once by attending our course in January!
Over the three days we shall prepare a three booklets that you can use with parents, teachers and volunteers, and the management committee. Together the three booklets will guide you to put together a Management File for your supplementary school.
The Good Management Pack consists of
- A Welcome Pack for Parents
- Staff and Volunteer Handbook
- Management Committee Guide
To complete the minimum requirements for safe out-of-school provision you must have all of the policies and procedures detailed in the Good Management Pack. Each day we shall complete one of the three focused booklets: Day 1 -Welcome Pack for Parents; Day 2 – Staff and Volunteer Handbook, Day 3 – Management Committee Guide.
The fee for the full course is £450 or £150 per day. If you book all three days together you can send two people for the price of one, an excellent opportunity to train up a prospective trustee or a staff member.
If you subscribe to NRCSE you access discounted prices on all our products. For this course the full price is £225 or £75 per day. You are also eligible for the same two for one discount as above.
Just go to the training section in our online shop to book your place(s). To get the maximum benefit from this course your school should send at least one person to all three sessions. Even better, if you book all three days together you can send two people each day for the same price!
New quality recognition scheme builds on government regulation
Stop press: New quality recognition scheme encourages development of best practice in out-of-school provision and builds on existing government regulation.
The NRCSE Quality Mark builds on Section 11 of the Children’s Act 2004 and addresses eight standards in educational provision:
- Create an effective learning environment
- Teach effectively
- Record progress and achievement
- Choose the right resources
- Plan and develop your organisation
- Select and support staff and volunteers
- Make sure that children are safe
- Manage finances
The NRCSE provides free self-evaluation resources and online guidance on minimum safeguarding standards on our website staging.supplementaryeducation.org.uk Downloadable templates and discounted training can be accessed by subscribing to NRCSE. Contact details for agencies providing support in the school’s local authority area are also provided. The NSPCC has recently updated their toolkit of safeguarding standards and guidance in line with Section 11 guidelines so that is a good place to start if your local safeguarding children board isn’t responding quickly. Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 places duties on a range of agencies and individuals to ensure their functions, and any services that they contract out to others, are discharged having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. You can contact your local safeguarding children board to obtain details of the support provided in your area to meet these standards.
In order to apply for an NRCSE Quality Mark a supplementary school must:
- Meet the stated Section 11/safeguarding requirements for your local authority, and
- provide up-to-date information on the services it provides, and
- have received a visit from an appropriate person*.
*nationally qualified member of teaching staff, or Children’s Services, or registered NRCSE quality assurance mentor
Following a Recognition Meeting the school will receive a detailed report highlighting good practice and containing recommendations for development. Successful recognition will entitle the school to carry the NRCSE Quality Mark and the quality assurance report will be publicly available on the NRCSE Online Directory of Supplementary Schools (unless the supplementary school has provided a written request not to be publicly listed).
Start working towards an NRCSE Quality Mark today!
To enter your school for an NRCSE Quality Mark you must be able to demonstrate that you meet local safeguarding standards (see below) for Voluntary & Community Sector (VCS) organisations working with children and young people as detailed in: HM Gov. document ‘Working together to safeguard children’ 2015, chapter 2 and para 4 Section 11, Children Act 2004
- Culture of listening to and consulting with children
- Effective recruitment, selection and contractual procedures including safeguarding checks
- Staff/volunteer supervision, support, training, induction, review, competence
- Staff aware of safeguarding policies and procedures including what to do if concerned about a child
- Procedures for dealing with allegations against staff/volunteers
- Requirement to refer to DBS and local authority designated officer or team dealing with allegations against those who work with children (formerly known as LADO)
- Supportive environment for staff/volunteers that encourages sharing of safeguarding concerns and provides clear
- whistleblowing procedures
- Clear lines of accountability for safeguarding arrangements
- Senior board level/management commitment to safeguarding
- Designated professional lead for safeguarding
- Arrangements for information sharing with other professionals and LSCB
You can demonstrate this via written confirmation from your local authority, or confirmation from Ofsted that you meet the requirements of the childcare register, or by completing the NRCSE safeguarding quiz and uploading your management file online.
For more details about the NRCSE Quality Mark visit our website staging.supplementaryeducation.org.uk
Download a printable flyer about the NRCSE quality recognition scheme