The Communications and newsletters page will help you to find out more about the JAR and enable you to share information with colleagues.
Your own organisation will circulate updates to you on what is happening through your usual communication routes. You will also be invited to attend briefing sessions and be able to find up-to-date information on the JAR web pages.
Specific briefings for staff involved in interviews and focus groups (September 2008)
A series of briefings took place during the week commencing 1 September for around 300 staff across Oldham Children's Trust who will be interviewed or take part in focus groups with the JAR Inspectors.
The key items in the briefing pack are:
Generic briefing sessions (August 2008)
A series of briefing sessions took place for all staff across Oldham Children's Trust to enable everyione to find out about the Joint Area Review, including the inspectors' feedback on our services from their Analysis Week. The key items from the briefing pack are:
We are looking for articles covering areas of good practice on work you are doing or have recently undertaken with children and young people. Please could you send us details of any good news stories or case study evidence you have, to include in the Bee the Best JAR newsletters, on the website, or to show the inspectors when they visit Oldham.
To contribute an article all you need to do is fill in the template and return it, with any supporting documents and photographs (sent electronically by email or in hard copy, which will be returned to you), to jar@oldham.gov.uk or JAR Project team, Level 10, Civic Centre, West Street, Oldham, OL1 1XJ. Articles should ideally not be any more than 100-200 words.