Events & News
This service relies on colleagues sending news and information to the College Chief Executive at: anton.florek@virtualstaffcollege.co.uk or contacting him at the VSC office on a regular basis. Notification of national and regional events and activities will be updated regularly but how often depends on colleagues sending news of events in.
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Report to ADCS Council
To read or download the Chief Executive's latest report to the Council of the Association of Directors of Children's Services please click on the image below.
Report to ADCS AGM
To read or download the Chief Executive's report to the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Directors of Children's Services please click onthe image below.
PROGRAMMES and EVENTS
Supporting Schools Financial Management regional seminars 2007
As in the previous two years the Virtual Staff College in partnership with the DCSF is organising a series of regional seminars for local authority school finance officers and school improvement professionals. These seminars are free to participants as all costs are being met by the Department. For further details and booking forms please click on the links below:
Flyer Booking form Programme Presentations
4P Network Summer Seminar
To read or download the materials fromn the semminar which took place in North Berwick during August 2007 please click on these:
Prsentations Flipchart notes
Making Data Count Regional Seminars 2007
For futher information and booking form please click on the image below.
To download the DCSF presentations from the MDC seminars please click on:
DCSF1 DCSF2 PIANO DIAGRAM
NATIONAL INDICATOR SET
Management Development Programme: Children's Services
The College is currently offering an accredited managment development programme for children's services senior and middle managers in local authorities and their Children's Trust partners. For further details please click on the respective links below.
South West north_west Yorkshire and Humber Eastern region
Management Development Programme for Data and Information Professionals
The VSC is about to pilot an MDP for DIPs commencing with a small group in the North West and a further group in the South East in the Autumn. For further details click on the icon below.
National news
To view the Pdf files of the National Standards for Governance Professionals click on these links:
Click here to view Part 1 (.PDF format)
Click here to view Part 2 (.PDF format)
Click on this for the NSSIPs National Standards download
Click on this for the NSSIPs National Standards Training and Development Framework download
Archive reports
The VSC led a symposium on LEA capacity building at the International Congress for School Improvement and Effectiveness which was held in Sydney Australia on January 5 - 8 2003. To view the papers and the presentations click on:
Anton Florek's presentation
Tony Townsend's presentation
Glamorgan University paper
Exeter University paper
Manchester University
paper
University of Surrey Roehampton paper
