South East Wales Consortium (SEWC)

Under the Welsh Assembly Government’s ‘Making the Connections Agenda’, Newport’s Education Service works in a consortium partnership with the education services in Blaenau Gwent, Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen. The vision of the SEWC is:

“Maximising the potential of all our learners through efficient and effective collaboration”

The collaborative work between member councils includes:

• performance management for Headteachers;
• school improvement;
• school and Council staff continued professional development (CPD) programmes;
• co-ordination of WAG’s RAISE project;
• professional Headship Induction Programme;
• higher Level Teaching Assistant training;
• basic skills within the 14-19 Learning Pathways.

In addition to the above future areas of work for the SEWC for 2008-2011, are:

• collaboration on tri-level reform in line with WAG’s School Effectiveness Framework;
• establishing and developing collaborative good practice networks to facilitate school learning communities at local and regional level to support effective pedagogy;
• inclusion and Additional Learning Needs (ALN);
• Welsh medium provision;
• continuation and development of the successful collaborative services;
• increasing joint commissioning to raise standards and provide economy of scale.

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