WMVS CiC Foundation 2023 Annual Conference

Thursday 15 June 2023 9am - 4pm

Crowne Plaza, Holliday Street, Birmingham B1 1HH

Our annual conference for virtual school teams to get together, network, share practice and hear

about great practice from regional and national colleagues.

Aimed at Virtual School staff within West Midlands region.

9 am-9:30am Arrival and registration

9: 30am-9:45am WM Opening Andy, Sarah and Deena

9:45am-9:55am NAVSH Key Priorities Matthew Cooke

9:55am-10:25am Ofsted Ian Hardman

10:25am-10.45am DfE Update Andrew Baxter

10-45am-11am Panel discussion - Questions to NAVSH, Ofsted, DfE

11am Break

11.15am-11.55am Breakout session 1 - regional good practice

12.00pm-12.45pm Breakout session 2 - regional good practice

12.45pm Lunch

1.30pm-2.15pm Keynote speaker - Mark Finnis - Relational and Restorative Practice Overview

2.15pm-2.45pm What Works REES Research Slot pilots and implications CWSW, SWIS, Post 16 Pilot

2.45pm-3.25pm Breakout session 3 - National & Regional Learning

3.30pm-4pm Breakout session 4 - National & Regional Learning

4pm-4.15pm VSHT key messages

4pm Close

If you could find a way to improve school behaviour whilst also building better relationships and ensuring your school values are actually lived, then why wouldn’t you grab it?

Fortunately, such an approach is within reach. It’s called Restorative Practice and Mark Finnis, one of its leading proponents in the UK, is one of our top speakers and Associates.

Whilst RP’s close relation, Restorative Justice, is an approach to dealing with the fall out when things go wrong, limiting the damage, stopping things escalating and working to ensure whatever happened doesn’t happen again, Mark's work is all about getting the ethos, culture and relationships right in the first place. It’s an approach he not only takes to schools across the country but to local government, social services and children’s services too.

1. Chat, play, Read Workshop - led by Sandwell
2. Learning in the home reflective provision Workshop - led by Staffordshire
3. PEP’s & PPG workshop- led by Wolverhampton
4. UASC workshop - led by Worcester
5. Speech & Language workshop - led by Walsall
6. PLAC workshop- led by Herefordshire
7. Care leavers in partnership with Women & Theatre workshop - led by Birmingham

1. Artslink Programme workshop- led by Telford & Wrekin and Performing Perfectly
2. Active Now Programme workshop - led by Worcester
3. CAMHS workshop - led by Walsall
4. Complex Communications Team workshop - led by Coventry
5. Post 16 NEET workshop - led by Dudley
6. New Duties Workshop - led by Sandwell
7. Attachment Aware Schools programme workshop - led collaboratively by Hereford, Worcester, Wolverhampton

1. Inclusion linking RADY & TIAAS
2. Managing difficult conversations Vs context
3. Attendance HMI Ofsted
4. Exploitation of Teenage Brain - links to gangs & exploitation
5. Pathways to University
6. EEF Literacy Project

1. Inclusion linking RADY & TIAAS
2. Managing difficult conversations Vs context
3. Attendance HMI Ofsted
4. Exploitation of Teenage Brain - links to gangs & exploitation
5. Pathways to University
6. EEF Literacy Project

Host or Publisher West Midlands Virtual Schools Children in Care Foundation