Developing Excellence in Offender learning delivered by sector experts
You told us you would like us to offer work shops in order to develop excellence on a range of hot topics for leaders and
managers.
Developing excellence in …
data collection, analysis
& evidencing learners’
softer skills and wider
outcomes
data collection and
analysis in shaping and
informing the
curriculum offer
a whole organisational
approach to the
induction and
assessment process
a whole organisational
approach to quality
improvement – from
strategy to classroom
Views from an Ofsted
secondment reinforcing the value and
impact of the selfassessment process in
the improvement agenda
improving outcomes by
taking a whole
organisational approach
to problem solving
quality improvement
plans that are developed
and owned by the whole
organisation
creating a rigorous and
reliable and selfassessment report
data management to
inform decision making
and improve and
enhance future
performance
creating an ‘inspection
ready’ organisation
performance
management, lesson
observations and selfassessment reports
maximising the use of
the virtual campus
improving attendance
and allocations in
prisons
everything you need to
know about learning &
skills, but were too
afraid to ask
creating an ambitious
organisation
Looking up and
broadening horizons:
Innovation, Evolution
and Adaptation
Title
data
collection,
analysis &
evidencing
learners’
softer skills
and wider
outcomes
Description
Delivered by :
Who is this workshop for?
Kerry Boffey, A4E & Manchester
college, improvement advisor
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All prison managers and curriculum leads
This workshop will help you to:
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Identify and appreciate the importance of partnership working across
the prison
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Consider the range of priorities and look at opportunities for
collaboration
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Discuss data collection and analysis focusing on how to identify the
value added benefits of learning and skills both in prison industries
and within OLASS

Take away some practical tips and ideas for implementation
data collection Who is this workshop for?
and analysis in
 All prison managers and curriculum leads
shaping and
informing the
curriculum
This workshop will help you to:
offer
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Work with delivery teams to understand and make use of data to raise
standards
Work with teams to better understand delivery variables and how
these impact on learner progress
Shape and inform the curriculum offer by having an improved
understanding of how to make the best use of data
Daniel Kane, Manchester college ,
senior MI lead
data
management
to inform
decision
making and
improve and
enhance
future
performance
improving
attendance
and
allocations in
prisons
Who is this workshop for?

Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and
skills managers, activities hub managers, curriculum administrators,
teaching teams, industries managers/workshop supervisors and
resettlement managers
Alastair Phelpstead, Weston
college, project director operations
business planning & performance
This workshop will help you to:

Evaluate your current practice and share ideas to improve and
enhance future practice
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Develop your skills in curriculum planning; data collection & analysis

Use data to inform decision making & performance monitoring
Who is this workshop for?

The workshop will be aimed at everyone who is involved in the
allocation and attendance process. This will include: learning and
skills managers, heads of reducing & reoffending, education managers
and residential managers
This workshop will help you to:

To gain a better understanding of the complexities of allocation and
attendance
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To appreciate the pressures and priorities for each individual role
involved with allocation and attendance

Understand why it is so important to foster better partnership
collaboration
Pete Nash, head of learning and
skills cluster lead
Who is this workshop for?
Danny Branley, head of learning &
a whole
skills Dartmoor prison
organisational
 The workshop will be aimed at those that are involved in the induction
approach to
and assessment process. This will include: learning and skills
the induction
managers, heads of reducing reoffending, education managers,
and
activity managers, offender management unit managers and
residential managers
assessment
process
This workshop will help you to:

Develop the sequencing of the offender journey whilst at
establishment through the effective use of skills action plans and
OASIS sentence planning

Identify areas within your own establishment that would profit from
more effective partnership working such as improved attendance,
success rates and retention
Who is this workshop for?
improving
outcomes by
 Prison SMT, education managers and NCS managers
taking a whole
organisational This workshop will help you to:
approach to
 Understand the benefits of a whole organisation approach
problem
solving

Develop and apply a joint approach to increasing attendance in
education

Understand how to use this to demonstrate effective leadership and
management at inspection
Sue Saxton, head of learning &
skills, cluster 2 east of England
creating an
‘inspection
ready’
organisation
Who is this workshop for?

Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and
skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations, curriculum
administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop
supervisors and resettlement managers
Andy Coxon , Weston college,
assistant director compliance &
standards
This workshop will help you to:
Everything
you need to
know about
learning &
skills, but
were too
afraid to ask

Evaluate your current practice and provoke new ideas to improve and
enhance future practice

Prepare your staff for inspection

Present accurate evidence during inspection

Anticipate and respond to challenges

Network with colleagues and share effective practice
Who is this workshop for?

Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and
skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations, curriculum
administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop
supervisors and resettlement managers.
This workshop will help you to:

Develop the knowledge of prison staff in terms of learning & skills

Support staff that are new to learning & skills to work more effectively
in the sector
John Platt, Stephen Oliver-Watts
& Janet Long, The regional &
cluster Holse in the NW
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Develop your knowledge in the three critical zones. The training will
cover key elements of the OLASS contract: curriculum / funding /
assurance & governance
Who is this workshop for?
a whole
organisational
 Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and
approach to
skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations, curriculum
quality
administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop
improvement
supervisors and resettlement managers
– from
strategy to
This workshop will help you to:
classroom
quality
improvement
plans that are
developed and
owned by the
whole
organisation

Develop your skills so that you can contribute to raising standards
across the regime with a focus on integrated curriculum design and
planning

Support the skills development within prison industries

Respond to national priorities at a regional and local level
Who is this workshop for?

Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and
skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations.
This workshop will help you to:
o Work with your staff team to build and deliver improvement
plans with a focus on;
- Responding to local priorities
- Staff involvement and engagement
Mark Shovlin, Manchester college
Mairi Anne McLeaod, Manchester
college
performance
management,
lesson
observations
and selfassessment
reports
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Develop best practice in quality improvement

Work with and within the regime- challenging preconceptions of what
can be done
Who is this workshop for?

Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and
skills managers, activities hub managers, allocations, curriculum
administrators, teaching teams, industries managers/workshop
supervisors and resettlement managers.
Alan Brockbank
quality manager, Weston college
This workshop will help you to:

Evaluate current practice and develop new ideas to improve and
enhance future practice in :
o SAR & QIP; Lesson Observations; Performance Management &
IQA
creating an
ambitious
organisation
Who is this workshop for?

Leaders and managers from the prison, OLASS and NCS
providers including prison SMT, education manager and NCS lead
This workshop will help you to:

Work together to raise ambition

Prepare for inspection, including recognition of shortcomings and
good practice

Improve leadership and management practice
Sue Saxton head of learning &
skills, cluster 2 east of England

Views from an
Ofsted
secondment reinforcing
the value and
impact of the
selfassessment
process in the
improvement
agenda
creating a
rigorous and
reliable and
selfassessment
report
Raise awareness of the role of Governors and the senior management
team
Who is this workshop for?
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Band 6 learning & skills managers, heads of reducing reoffending
OLASS education managers
Anyone with responsibility for producing an establishment SAR
Darryl Jones, west midlands
cluster lead
head of learning & skills
This workshop will help you to:
 Apply this learning to your own planning and leave with a series of
actions to take forward
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Reflect on your prison’s self-assessment process and improvement
action plans
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Understand how valuable self-assessment is

Recognise the appropriate strengths and areas for development
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Use robust evidence to make evaluations and formulate judgements
Who is this workshop for?

Learning & skills managers, heads of reducing reoffending

OLASS education managers

Anyone with responsibility for producing an establishment SAR
This workshop will help you to:

Develop a rigorous and reliable Self-Assessment process to ensure an
integrated approach in raising standards
Malcolm Bruce, Manchester
college

Understand the key considerations when developing a SAR

Unpick the complexity of prisons and prison interventions/ activity
Who is this workshop for?
maximising
the use of the
 Curriculum managers, heads of reducing reoffending, learning and
virtual campus
skills managers, curriculum administrators, teaching teams, partner
organisations and resettlement managers.
This workshop will help you to:

Undertake an evaluation of current practice and ideas to improve and
enhance future practice

Develop your knowledge of enabling access to VC and supporting
qualification delivery

Networking with colleagues and sharing effective practice
Weston college
Looking up
and
broadening
horizons:
Innovation,
Evolution and
Adaptation
Who is this workshop for?

Heads of reducing re-offending, learning, skills & employment
managers, OLASS cluster, prison and curriculum managers, NCS and
NOMS managers
The workshop will help you to :
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Identify key external organisations with which you'd like to build new
or improve existing relationships (e.g. Local Enterprise Partnerships,
employers and the wider FE sector)
Identify potential opportunities and threats
Confirm up to 3 priorities on which to focus, all aimed at innovation
which is ultimately aimed at benefiting offender learners
Identify risks and how these can potentially be managed
Incorporate innovation into your prison wide self assessment process
and report.
Sheena Maberly, Southern cluster
head of learning, skills &
employment north east prisons