engage in their future Benefits:
- Ongoing consultation with national and local government organisations and other non government organisations relating to the services we provide:
- Partnership and consultation with the policy makers - influence future policy
- Ability to stay up to speed on legislation
- Access to immediate information
- Regional Peer Mentoring and Support:
- Access to immediate information
- Meetings, local issues and responses, specific advice, support for workplace difficulties - reduces the isolation that Headteachers can frequently experience
- Further Professional Development and support:
- National conference, regional conferences, specialist courses, Joint training Initiatives
- Networking:
- Share good practise in education and care of children at all levels, website, newsletter, Document Summary Services *
* The Document Summary Service is a provision for members paid for by
engage in their future. Bristol University summarise all the documents produced by government each month to save time for HeadTeachers. Heads can then identify relevant documents and read them in depth where necessary.
Quote from engage in their future Member – Principal at William Henry Smith School (BESD school)
- engage in their future provides a network of like-minded professionals that is more closely related to our work than other organisations
- Being part of a network of professionals who, between them, are likely to have the answer to any child or staffing related issue
- engage in their future focus is on improving practice & policy in a child centred way in terms of what works well
- Wealth of knowledge and experience within engage in their future plus the willingness to share this and good practice with each other - reaps benefits for self and school
- engage in their future do listen to your views and act on them
- Reputation of engage in their future at national level (especially at govt. level) gives it credibility and influence
- An ability to discuss the BESD perspective on Government initiatives e.g. Every Child Matters; Secondary Strategy; 14 - 19 Curriculum and potentially be able to translate them to mainstream schools
- Ability to use the experience within the Association to challenge certain initiatives from a position of collective strength