Archived decisions

Headings

Description of what is wanted

1. Name:

Strategic Management of Education

2. Purpose:

Leading the Education Department effectively to respond to new challenges whilst retaining the fundamental focus on teaching, learning and school improvement.

    · Anticipating future opportunities and threats

    · Influencing regional and national policy

    · Ensuring the department and corporate County Council work together to achieve streategic aims, particularly on cross-cutting issues and partnerships with others

    · Maintaining partnership with headteachers, governors and other key players in the education and welfare of children

3. Proposed improvements

    · Keep strategic management functions under review

    · Review options for service delivery including market testing

    · Strengthen the planning activities of the department

    · Review and strengthen communication activities within the department

    · Keep the Committee support function under review

4. Progress on implementing the improvement plan

    · Development of new LEA strategy initiatives which will incorporate the leadership roles for the local educational community

    · Active participation in National, regional and local initiatives to promote and define the role of the LEA

    · Development of partnerships with the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), Connexions and community planning with the local district councils

    · New suite of performance indicators developed to focus planning and resource deployment

    · Hampshire Inspection and Advisory Service (HIAS) in partnership with Vosper Thorneycroft to develop procedures to select headteachers as associate inspectors

    · "Virtual schools project" established to assess the extent to which communications with schools might be streamlined

    · new committee support procedures to support the introduction of `modernised' local government

5. Plans for future implementation

    · the development of the new LEA strategy will provide the opportunity to bring together the further implementation of the review recommendations

6. Conclusion

The agreed improvements are being implemented