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14-19 Curriculum Group
Mission
- To provide 14-19 education and training in Brighton & Hove which enables every young person to achieve their potential, and which will give them the confidence and skills to take their full place in society and employment. [1]
Objectives
- The group is empowered to enact the elements of the City’s 14-19 Action Plan delegated to it by the 14-19 Partnership Board. These include:
- Developing an appropriate and broad 14-19 curriculum offer that enables young people in the city to have access to the range of vocational and academic courses outlined in the DfES’ 14-19 Implementation Plan, seeking to ensure efficient use of resources through collaboration.
- Supporting the development of a more extensive and inclusive14 -19 vocational offer from level 1 and 3, ensuring progression pathways exist to level 4.
- Providing a forum in which individual providers can test at an early stage of curriculum design/planning whether/how far their plans fit within the city wide offer.
- Drafting suitable working protocols including: common fee structures for those elements of the offer that are open to students outside the host school; child protection; transport and data transference.
- Continuing to support the development of specialist subject networks across the city to share and celebrate good practice between schools, colleges and training providers in the Partnership.
- Sharing information on discreet and discretionarily funded programmes including Increased Flexibility Programme (IFP), Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) and Local Intervention Development (LID) Fund to obtain maximum added value from 14-19 funding and highlight effective practice.
Accountability
- The 14 – 19 Curriculum Group is accountable to the Brighton & Hove 14 – 19 Partnership Board.
Membership
- The 14 – 19 Curriculum Group will consist of Senior Management Team representatives responsible for curriculum development or planning from:
- Each of the city’s Secondary & Special Schools
- Each of the city’s Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges
- Plumpton College
- Children and Young People’s Trust representative
- Learning and Skills Council Sussex representative
- Education Business Partnership
- SCTP
- An additional Workbased Learning provider place
- Two members of the Children and Young People’s Trust 14 –19 team will coordinate the group and provide secretariat support and provide a link between the 14-19 Partnership Board and the Curriculum Group.
Person Specification for the Group Membership
- Member of Senior Management Team (Deputy/Assistant Head/Principal) or equivalent, with the authority to, in principle, make binding decisions which may affect their own institution/organisation.
- Knowledge of the 14 – 19 curriculum and vocational learning, including delivery and assessment skills
- To be able to take an objective view of City-wide education and training issues and an equally dispassionate review of where resources should best be directed.
- To be willing to give time to the Group’s work, including participating in working parties and consultation exercises with colleagues outside the group.
- To be willing to undertake further professional development and familiarisation with aspects of the curriculum and training provision to be implemented.
- Organisation of Meetings:
- Papers will be sent out two weeks in advance of the meeting and members are expected to come prepared to make decisions on behalf of their institutions.
- The 14 –19 Curriculum Group will meet once each half termand other stakeholders can be invited by prior agreement with the Chair.
- The 14-19 Curriculum Group will elect a Chair on an annual basis who will lead the Group’s work and liaise closely with the BHLP Partnership Manager who will convene and co-ordinate the membership of the group and its activities between scheduled meetings.
- The chair will also be expected to attend the 14-19 Partnership Board to ensure that an effective communication link is developed.
- In the absence of the Chair, chairing the meetings will be decided by members in conjunction with the 14 – 19 Coordinator.
- The group will review the aims and composition of the group each year in the summer term to ensure the group continues to reflect the 14 – 19 agenda.
- Meetings shall be deemed quorate when twelve of the members are present and decisions will be made via consensus or via a vote if this is not possible. The vote will require a minimum of two thirds of the eligible members to vote in favour for the motion to be passed.
- Declarations of interest must be lodged with the Chair at the beginning of each meeting.
- Up to three observers are able to attend each meeting of the 14-19 Curriculum Group, with prior notification to the 14-19 Coordinator and/or Chair.
- July 5th 2006
