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This course is for you if you are familiar with entering formulas and analysing data in Excel and want to write code to automate Excel tasks, such as formatting a report and performing operations which can not be done using conventional Excel commands.

East Sussex Children’s Service and the East Sussex Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) has set an expectation that the named safeguarding link governors attend, prior to or shortly after appointment, in-depth face to face training delivered by the East Sussex Governor and Clerking Services which will be updated every three years.

This session will provide safeguarding link governors with a refresher of the knowledge of how to work effectively with the school’s designated safeguarding lead (DSL) and ensure the governing body's responsibilities are being met.

Essential training to meet statutory requirements

Governing boards in maintained schools have a statutory duty under the Education (School Teachers’ Appraisal) (England) Regulations 2012 for headteacher appraisal.

On this course participants will look at methods to effectively manage the process of an allegation against a colleague or themselves.
This training is only aimed at professionals who will be directly involved in The Managing Allegations process and who have a relevant need to investigate.

Important note: It is essential that you have undertaken the Safeguarding Children e-learning prior to coming on this course (see additional information under full details), or you may be turned away.

This is a meeting for the Eastbourne Educational Improvement Partnership (EIP) Governors.  This is a governor led group, organised and chaired by fellow governors. We aim to provide a group where governors from all phases and types of schools can meet and share experiences and best practice with each other

Induction is essential for all new governors and for longer term governors wishing to refresh, to help understand their roles and responsibilities.

Data Link Governors Session:

Data Link governors are invited to attend this training session, run by SLES and DRIM to discuss the resources available to the governing board and how Data Link governors can use them to analyse school performance and ask challenging questions.

Using Analyse School performance (ASP), the Ofsted Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) and Fischer Family Trust (FFT) Aspire to identify strengths and areas for development - an opportunity for delegates to explore their own school data.

The session will briefly outline some headlines from the East Sussex data, then focus upon some key features of these three sources of data analysis. Delegates will then explore their own data and begin considering if current school priorities align with the evidence from performance data.

Effective communication techniques are vital for anyone who needs to manage or influence other people to achieve desired results. During this course the participant will gain a greater understanding of communication, message management and will also learn how to enhance their natural communication skills.

In order to aid your learning, please complete the pre-course work and ensure you bring it with you on the day of the training session.

All senior managers who have not already attended the IOSH Safety for Senior Executive’s training to attend the one day Safety for Executives and Directors course. This training to be extended to those Heads of Service who have not previously attended the IOSH Safety for Senior Executives or the one day corporate/ASC management principles course that is delivered in-house by the Health and Safety Team.

This course should enable executives to review policy and strategies and, where necessary, introduce changes to enhance the safety culture within their organisation.

The Competency Framework for Governance sets out the skills and effective behaviours expected of governors and specifically the Chair. These include:

• Leadership skills with the ability to build and work within a team

• The capacity to have good working relationships with key figures

• The ability to think strategically, be focused with a knowledge of statutory requirements and regulations

 This course aims to consider these principles of effective chairing and ways to develop good practice and is suitable for Chairs and Vice Chairs of Governing Boards, Chairs of Committees and Governors wishing to be a Chair in the future.