Building Children's Centre System Leadership Capacity
 
Location: Pen Green Research Base, Corby
 
Course administrator: Rebecca Elliott relliott@northamptonshire.gov.uk tel: 01536 443435 fax: 01536 463960
 
Aimed at:
This exciting new professional developemtn opportunity has been designed for leaders, managers and senior staff within children's centres working alongside their governors, members of childdren's centre governance groups and advisory boards. Children's centres are encouraged to participate by bringing three people to each training event; one leader, one team member and one governor or advisory group member.
 
Purpose and Outcomes:
This system leadership programme has 2 key objectives:
1. To sustain children's centre leaders and their governors and member of their advisory groups in their critical role
2. To develop sustainable children's centres - centres that really make a difference to the lives of children and families in the 21st Century
 
Children's centres are seen by the government as the new frontier of the welfare state and both central government and local authorities are committed to developing high quality accessible services in places close to where families live. The complex demands of running a children's centre means that there has to be a new focus on 'system' leadership. This system leadership training requires children's centre teams to work on collaborative micro-projects. Whatever your role - head, deputy, manager, co-ordinator, governor or parent advisor this professional development opportunity should make a huge difference to your work.
 
Participants will be encouraged to:
  • identify and clarify their 'primary task' as a children's centre
  • develop their capacity as a leaderful team of change agents with a deeper understanding of the change process
  • acquire a more accurate sense of the socio political context they are working in
  • increase awareness of their own strengths and the contribution they can make
  • engage with the wider Action Learning Community themes
          - Critical friendships
          - Joint delivery of services across communities
          - Learning from best practice
  • increase their professional knowledge and understanding of how to involve the local community in the centre and how the cenntre can collaborate to the local community's well-being
  • extend their professional development qualities and skills in relation to developing an accurate, understandable and comprehensive account of the centre's perfomance for a wide range of audiences
 
 
Booking / Costs:
Pen Green staff can either work with 6/8 children's centres within one local authority at a local venue or alternatively individual children's centres can attend an all-comers 2 day event at Pen GReen complete a 10 week outcomes focussed micro-project and then attend a final review day at Pen Green.
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