BILD, in association with NASS, showcase the Quality Network
BILD, in partnership with NASS (National Association of Special Schools) have recently launched a series of workshops showcasing BILD’s Quality Network process. NASS hosted these well supported events in Chipping Norton, Cheadle and Exeter attracting schools and commissioners of children’s services from these regions and beyond.
With the increasing emphasis on outcomes, the Quality
Network adopts an inclusive approach that explores what life is like for
children and young people. Quality Network is not an audit driven, tick box
approach. Instead, it shifts the focus away from service delivery to how a
service is received, using outcomes that complement the Every Child Matters
outcomes.
To find out how this process can support your school or young people’s
service to:
• Evidence that the ‘young person's voice’ is listened to and incorporated
into development plans
• Provide a framework for transition planning
• Provide evidence for your SEF
• Involve families, children and young people with complex needs in shaping
services and support
please contact Valerie Wilkinson at BILD on 01562 723022 or email
v.wilkinson@bild.org.uk
A series of Quality Network reviews have taken place
in Flintshire, below is their feedback on how this has worked for them.
'What have Quality Network reviews done for us?
- Writing a checklist of what makes a house a home and using it to make sure someone’s home doesn’t become the domiciliary providers office
- Making signs more welcoming in a day service
- Joining the Stay up Late campaign
- Starting up a user group
- Supporting people to have a holiday rather than traditional short term car
- Rethinking how we keep information current and person centred
- reference the 10 outcomes in our public leaflets, our annual business plan and our in house provider services Statements of Purpose and Function for service users to reference
- have used the 10 outcomes as a reference point in formatting questionnaires and other feedback tools for people with learning disabilities
- are using the 10 outcomes and My Life to develop contract monitoring documents and processes to involve people with learning disabilities in feedback on services commissioned for them
Quality
Network Schools Pilot Project
The Quality Network looks at outcomes for people with a learning disability and has been used very successfully for a number of years in person-centred reviews of adult services.
Every Child Matters applies to ALL services for children and young people.
A pilot project (working with three schools has shown that the Quality Network can support schools and children’s services to include children and young people in evaluating and planning services. The process is flexible enough to use in a range of different settings, across age ranges to include input from children and young people with no formal means of communication.
The pilot showed that the Quality Network outcomes link with Every Child Matters and that the review process
- Provides evidence for self assessment/evaluation
- Can produce evidence for CQC and other inspectors and that the young
person’s voice has been listened to and used to shape development plans
The findings of the original pilot were disseminated (report of pilot), changes were made to the materials and workshops and a second pilot involving services within education and children’s services will complete at the end of this year. An external evaluation of this second pilot was commissioned and the key messages from the report can be downloaded.
Downloads
Checking Every Child Matters outcomes with the Quality Network - Pilot project report
Further information
If you would like further information please contact:
Valerie Wilkinson, Manager – Learning & Development Services, 01562
723022
Email: v.wilkinson@bild.org.uk