1419 strategic planning

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14-19 strategic planning
Heather White DCSF 14-19 Adviser, SE
Region Heather.white_at_dcsf.gsi.gov.uk 07917
235466 For LEACAN 30th June 2009
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• Planning is bringing the future into the present
  so that you can do something about it now.
• (Alan Lakein)

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Planning for

• 2013 curriculum entitlement across all learning
  routes
• Raising participation towards 100 2015
• Raising attainment and achievement by age 19
• Improved outcomes and better opportunities

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Futures modellingData and information which
informs strategic priorities and high level
actions to 2013 including 16-19 commissioning
priorities (and provision for LLDD to 25)

• Forecast Demand including local demographic
  trends, national policy direction, young
  peoples views, local economic needs forecasts,
  historic and current progression
• Audit of current availability and quality
  -Apprenticeships, Diplomas, General
  qualifications, FLT
• Modelling of future requirements towards
  provision of entitlement across all learning
  routes and 100 participation
• Have you got this? If not how are you going to
  get it?
• How much should be LA wide (or across SRG) and
  how much at consortium level?
• Do you have a Partnership view of what 14-19
  provision in 2013/2015 will look like? What are
  the implications for learning providers?

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• The reason that everyone likes to be involved in
  planning is that nobody has to do anything.
• (US Govt official 1988)

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Roles and responsibilities

• the Local Authority will hold responsibility for
  ensuring provision is designed around the needs
  of learners, secured, monitored, supported and
  challenged accountable body
• the Partnerships strategic plan, based on a
  robust analysis of the needs of the young people
  in the area, will inform LAs strategic
  commissioning priorities
• Partnerships will also inform the design of
  services and their monitoring, and provide
  strategic oversight, support and challenge to
  local delivery consortia
• Consortia will develop operational, collaborative
  delivery of the 14-19 entitlement for their local
  area
• Learning providers need to understand the
  direction of travel and their contribution to the
  delivery of the wider 14-19 entitlement (and so
  do their staff and governors.)

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Responsibility and accountability

• How much authority for strategically planning
  local entitlement provision will be delegated to
  local consortia?
• To what degree will they take collective
  responsibility for outcomes for young people in
  their area?
• How will you as a LA/Partnership support and
  challenge them?

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• Is it the quality of the 14-19 planning that
  matters, or the quality of the 14-19 plan?

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Purpose of the 14-19 strategic plan

• To formally record
• the priorities agreed by the 14-19 partnership
• the key actions and milestones agreed by the
  partnership in order to lead on this reform
  agenda
• To establish an agreed sense of pace in moving
  towards collective goals
• To establish a common framework of expectation,
  so that each partner is clear about what
  contribution it can make to the partnership
  agenda and what it can expect from others
• To inform commissioning and funding decisions
• It is designed to influence key leaders within
  the broad 14-19 partnership so that their own
  plans reflect the partnership agenda
• Does your Strategic Plan do this?

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Who is involved?

• As well as determining a plan for learning
  provision the 14-19 Partnership needs to be well
  connected to these agendas
• Secondary national strategy
• Youth Matters/IYSS/IAG
• Regeneration and economic development
• Transport strategy
• Capital strategy
• Commissioning of services across the LA
• Do your structures enable this? How does 14-19
  plan link to CYPP and other Council plans? How
  do you get other LA divisions and partner
  organisations to consider your 14-19 plan in
  their planning? Have you identified the key
  dependencies?

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How will quality of plans and planning be
assessed?

• LA accountability for delivery of the full
  entitlement
• 14-19 Progress check
• Ofsted new rating for LA performance as
  commissioners (2009)
• Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)
• LA single report card (aggregated school report
  card)?
• Institution accountability
• Ofsted new partnership grade for schools (2009)
• School report card? Framework for Excellence
  report card?

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• However beautiful the strategy you should
  occasionally look at the results.
• (Winston Churchill)

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Challenge Your Partnership Planning Process

• Have you started from a robust analysis of data?
• Who will you engage in designing/developing this
  plan, understanding the evidence base, shaping
  the priorities, agreeing high level actions,
  setting the milestones?
• Are partnership structures robust enough to
  ensure that representatives involved with the
  planning process do fully engage with and inform
  those that they represent?
• Who will be involved in the process of monitoring
  and review and how will that inform future
  actions?
• How will you ensure synergy with the
  strategies/plans of neighbouring LA areas?

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Challenge your plan

• Is it based on robust data that informs future
  needs as well as current performance?
• Does it cover the full scope of 14-19 entitlement
  and LA accountabilities?
• Does it clearly articulate responsibilities of
  LA, 14-19 partnership, consortia and providers?
• Is it specific enough to be used as the key tool
  to inform commissioning of 14-19 services and
  16-19 learning provision?
• Is it robust enough to influence long term LA
  investment in capital, infrastructure and human
  resources?
• Is it strong enough to influence the business
  planning of partners and providers?

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How do you get from here to 2013?(2015?
2020?)Whats missing?How will you fill the
gaps?What do you need to be doing differently by
this time next year?

• Heather White
• DCSF 14-19 Adviser, SE Region
• Heather.white_at_dcsf.gsi.gov.uk
• 07917 235466