Operations Team for Community Learning

  • Accountability

  • The Operations Team for Community Learning (OTCL) is a constituted body of the Adult Learning Group (ALG), one of four sub-groups forming the ALG delivery arm. The Operations Team is accountable to the ALG, through which it reports to its primary stakeholders, to the Learning Partnership Board and, in turn, to the Local Strategic Partnership.
  • The group will also contribute to the monitoring and review of the Joint Commission’s plans for PCDL.

  • Objectives

  • 1.To jointly implement, monitor and review the PCDL plan for Brighton & Hove deriving from the Adult Learning Strategy; and, on an annual cycle, to inform and advise the ALG on its planning priorities.
  • 2.To collate and enhance information and data relating to PCDL provision across the city. This would include:
  • Drawing together the various mapping exercises undertaken relating to PCDL;
  • Acting upon information demonstrating unmet demand or unnecessary duplication
  • Suggesting additional research or investigation related to the distribution of PCDL provision.
  • 3.To develop more collaborative ways of working and sharing information relating to learner access and support, curriculum planning, progression routes, and quality improvement.
  • 4.Finding mechanisms that assist membership organisations to listen and respond to learners; ensuring learner’s views inform policy and planning, as well as delivery.
  • 5.To annually review the recommendations, priorities and principles for PCDL contained in the Adult Learning Strategy and the strategy action plan and over time measure the impact providers’ efforts have made, through a joint self assessment report.
  • 6.To contribute and make recommendations to the Joint Commissioning Board’s plans for PCDL commissioning and to contribute to the review of progress against anticipated outcomes.

  • Manner of working

  • The OTCL will:
  • 1.  Be the body that ensures coordinated delivery of the PCDL action plan for the city.
  • 2.  Ensure that decisions made by the group are supported by each member and are presented to the Adult Learning Group so as to inform planning and strategy.
  • 3.  Consult with relevant organisations and with learners when setting and reviewing its plans and will reflect this in its working relationship with the Adult Learning Group and its other sub-groups.
  • 4.  Require its members to agree formally to these terms of membership.

  • Membership of the Operations Team for PCDL

  • The Operations Team will draw upon representatives, as necessary, from a wide range of organisations working with adult learners in the City. The groups core membership will include representatives of:
  • All LSC funded PCDL providers in Brighton & Hove.
  • Others designated by the ALG as delivery bodies or agents, as necessary for particular activities.
  • Person Specification for membership of the Operations Team
  •  A nominated representative of a provider with the authority, in principle, to make decisions which may affect their own institution/organisation.
  •  A sense of accountability, through the Adult Learning Group, to the people and learners of the city.
  • Able to take an objective view of city-wide adult education and training issues and an equally dispassionate review of where resources should best be directed.
  •  Willing to give time to the Operation Team’s work to ensure it makes effective contribution to coordinated and efficient delivery.
  • Current, first-hand experience of delivery of the city’s adult education and training provision.
  • Willing to acquaint themselves with aspects of the adult education and training provision with which they be less familiar.

  • Organisation of meetings

  • 1.An appropriate number of meetings, normally a minimum of 3 per annum, with additional meetings as an when required, will be determined on an annual basis by reference to the requirements of the Adult Learning Group and its stakeholders.
  • 2.The Operations Team will elect a Chair to lead the Team’s work and liaise closely with the Adult Learning Group, which will assist in convening and co-ordinating the Team and its activities between scheduled meetings. The Chair will be rotated on an annual basis.
  • 3.Guests may be invited to each meeting to focus upon activities contained in the action plan.
  • 4.Meetings shall be deemed quorate when four member are present.
  • 5.Declarations of interest must be lodged with the Chair at the beginning of each meeting.
  • 6.The group will work collaboratively and towards consensus wherever possible, whilst recognising the independence of each member. Should a vote be necessary a majority will be needed with one member, one vote.

 

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Minutes of past meetings