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Training & Events Now Booking

Safeguarding: 11 March 2010
Proactive management of the Safeguarding Agenda
Early Years leadership: Creating the vision, making it real (Programme 20): 11 March 2010
he programme is designed to deepen understanding of the impact of effective leadership of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Centred on the child (Programme 21): 12 March 2010
This programme focuses on the practical challenges of establishing Children’s Centres.

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News

‘Professional expertise remains essential’: CSPN: The umbrella body covering professionals working in children’s services has warned that key areas of professional expertise are under pressure.
Aspect acts on workers’ rights for foster carers: A specialist foster carer who was denied basic rights at work is to take Norfolk County Council to an employment tribunal. Backed by Aspect Sandra Bullock is seeking to establish her legal status as ‘ a worker'.
16th - 20th November 2009 is anti bullying week: Many local authorities will be sponsoring events linked to this annual event. At least they should be, because education and social care are two of the three employment sectors with the highest rates of bullying, according to numerous surveys.

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Press Releases

GSCC finally agrees Lisa Arthurworrey can practice: In a landmark decision, the General Social Care Council has finally agreed to implement the decision of the Care Standards Tribunal that Ms Lisa Arthurworrey can be placed on the professional social work register.
Aspect welcomes Social Work Taskforce proposals: Aspect welcomes Social Work Taskforce proposals – and calls for funding guarantees
Schools White Paper under the spotlight: The government’s new white paper Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future: Building a 21st Century Schools System comes under the spotlight when the annual conference of the Association of Professionals in Education and Children’s Trusts meets in Leeds

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Improvement Magazine

The Winter 2009 issue of Improvement magazine is out now.

Aspect members get the print version free in the post but it is now available as a pdf to download and in a new page-turning web version.

Download the PDF, or read the web version

Speaking, listening, learning: Anita Kerwin-Nye talks to Clive Robson on the work of the Communication Trust
Between a rock and a hard place: Roger Kline analyses the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force
Climate change: Nick Wright on a role for trade unions

Jobs

Curriculum Advisers - Regional Support, Primary Curriculum: Employer: The Curriculum Group
Location: Home-based or at host Local Authority
Salary: c£50,000 - £60,000 (or pro rata) + attractive benefits
Early Childhood Care Consultant: Employer: U.A.E. Dubai
Location: Dubai - with Tax Free income
Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 – Depending on experience

Aspect – in consultation with its Scottish members and with the Association of Educational Development and Improvement Professionals in Scotland (AEDIPS) – has developed a set of standards for educational development and improvement professionals in Scotland.

Aspect's Scotland Council Member, Tommy Doherty, said "These standards are designed to reflect the current and changing roles and responsibilities of those working in educational development and improvement."

"The standards are supported by guidance notes. Six dimensions are identified which reflect the working practices of educational improvement professionals."

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