Education

 

ChildrenFirst has experience at the highest levels in schools and education services, inspection support and strategic management.

 

We can provide you with:

• leadership & management improvement programmes
• support to improve
        - staff performance at all levels
        - enhance staff participation and motivation
        - improve performance management
• interim staff
• recruiting permanent senior staff to existing and new structures,
• Developing an improved recruitment and retention strategies across directorates.

We can help you to:

Improve the performance of schools by:

• Implementing a successful challenge programme for underperforming schools;
• Integrating strategy, processes and front line delivery of standards programmes for all schools;
• Reviewing the implementation of the National Strategies to improve their effectiveness ;
• Strategic Support for integrated front line delivery of the National Strategies;
• Enhancing the capacity of  Advisory and Inspection Services to meet the needs of schools’ continuous improvement, and
• Reducing permanent exclusions and improving school attendance

 

Develop special educational needs, inclusion and prevention strategies by:

• Supporting Special Educational Needs strategy to improve its effectiveness;
• Improving processes and procedures to enhance the capacity of services to meet the needs of vulnerable children, and
• Improving outcomes for children at risk of exclusion and establishing joint approaches to reduce the number of children missing from education.

 

Make capital projects a reality by:

Using our education and children’s service expertise. We work with councils to support them in their capital programmes be it Building Schools for the Future, Primary Capital Programme, Academies or One School Pathfinders. Drawing on our extensive experience in supporting clients to develop their visions of regeneration, sustainable communities, our work ‘translates’ the future into capital projects such as schools and children’s centres which make a real difference to children, young people and their families.