Ofsted News – Issue 91 – June 2020

OfstedNews Our free monthly newsletter Issue 91 | June 2020 Sections All Ofsted Schools Children’s social care Further education and skills Early years and childcare   COVID-19 updates Ofsted: COVID-19 rolling update – This sets out our guidance and information relating to COVID-19 (coronavirus) for schools, early years, children’s social care and further education and skills providers. We are updating it regularly. If you need to see what we’ve added since you last checked it, you can select ‘history‘ on the page and this lists all the updates. All Ofsted Ofsted pen portraits of Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMIs) – Updated HMI pen portraits for the South East, North West, West Midlands and London. Schools New teacher training inspections to focus on the initial teacher education (ITE) curriculum – Ofsted publishes a new ITE framework and handbook bringing ITE inspections in line with the education inspection framework (EIF). The outcome of the recent consultation and an updated equality, diversity and inclusion statement have also been published. Ofsted wins landmark prosecution case of school that breached conditions – A school, prohibited from admitting more students, was found in breach of its operating conditions and fined at Luton Magistrates’ Court on 27 May. State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information – Published management information as at 31 May 2020. Children’s social care What Ofsted means by a serious incident – Guidance for social care providers on what we mean by a serious incident and what you need to tell us about. We have also updated the ‘reporting an incident’ paper forms to online forms. Register as a provider of children’s social care services – Removed the ‘Social care online applications: information for applicants’ document as the guidance is no longer relevant. This follows the release of updated SC1, SC2 and SC3 forms. Ofsted’s social care blog: Secure children’s homes – helping the most vulnerable children – Ofsted’s Senior Officer for the Secure Estate, Shaun Common, discusses secure children’s homes. Further education and skills News story: Ofsted to review students’ and apprentices’ online further education experience – Ofsted is carrying out an exploratory review of the quality of learners’ experiences of online education in further education and skills settings during the COVID-19-affected summer term. Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 29 February 2020 – Data for inspections and outcomes as at 29 February 2020 including data for inspections carried out between 1 September 2019 and 29 February 2020. Early years and childcare Childminders: tell Ofsted about adults leaving the home – You must tell Ofsted when anyone aged 16 or over stops living or working in the home where you look after children. Consented addresses for childminders and domestic childcare – Updated consented addresses for childminders and domestic childcare as at 31 May 2020. Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2020 – This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2020. Subscribe to this newsletter here. © Ofsted 2020

Sent on behalf of Tolis Vouyioukas, Corporate Director, Children’s Services Directorate

Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are all well and safe. I am sharing the email below with you which I sent to all my staff in the Children’s Services directorate this morning.

Thank you for all your continued dedication and support for all our children and young people.

Best wishes.

Tolis Vouyioukas

Corporate Director

Children’s Services Directorate

Buckinghamshire Council

01296 383 104

tolis.vouyioukas@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

From: Internal Comms, Mailbox <internalcomms@buckinghamshire.gov.uk>
Sent: 19 June 2020 11:50
To: {All-BC-Children’s} <All-BC-Childrens@buckinghamshire.gov.uk>
Subject: FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN’S SERVICES / BLACK LIVES MATTER

Dear Colleague,

Over the last few weeks people and communities around the US, the UK and around the world have come together to acknowledge and express their feelings about the tragic and shocking death of George Floyd.

Like me, many of you will have seen some of the coverage on television and social media of recent demonstrations right across the UK, including Buckinghamshire. I realise that many of us will have been extremely concerned about what has happened and also personally affected by it.

You will be aware that our directorate is very diverse. Myself and the senior management team across children’s services are totally committed to working with you all as well as with my colleagues in the Corporate Management Team to ensure this organisation continues to be supportive and inclusive of all our staff. We are also absolutely committed to equality and fairness in our role as an employer and in our delivery of services to children and families.

I appreciate some of you will be feeling concerned and distressed about recent events, whilst still continuing to live with the impact that Covid-19 is having on us all personally. In addition, we are all having to start to come to terms with the desperately sad loss of our colleague Bibaa Henry. This is not an easy time for any of us. It is a lot to take in. It is more important than ever that we continue to support each other with kindness, empathy and consideration. I know that as a directorate we will all play our part in strengthening the connection we have as a team of professionals wanting to make a difference.

Within the children’s services leadership team, we have had several conversations about how we best address these very sensitive issues and the words and language to use that have meaning and do not come across as tokenistic or out of place. We do not always agree with each other and neither should we have to – but we always do agree on at least one topic and that is the well-being of all of you at all times. We also recognise and remind each other that words alone are not enough. It is our behaviours that matter and can make all the difference. Black lives do matter to all of us, all of the time. Not just at the present time because of what is happening around us. We are all very clear there is no place or tolerance for racism and discrimination and we all have a collective responsibility to say something about it if we see it or experience it.

I want to leave you with a quote which resonates with me:

‘I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.’ – James Baldwin

Thank you for all that you do.

Tolis Vouyioukas

Corporate Director

Children’s Services Directorate

Buckinghamshire Council

01296 383 104

tolis.vouyioukas@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

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