Answers to Peter Sandifords questions from Presentation QUESTIONS: - - PDF document

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Annex 1

Answer’s to Peter Sandiford’s questions from Presentation

QUESTIONS:

• No. 1 What has ICHA Achieved
• No. 2 What would you like more of?
• No. 3 What would you like less of?
• No. 4 What would you need in the first 6 months?
• No. 5 What do you want in the next 12 months?
• No. 6 What are you looking for in the next 5 years?
• 1. Voice for sector 86%
• 2. More regional meetings
• 3. Non-targeted information
• 4. Vision - start
• 5. Do more of the vision – cross-discipline co-operation
• 6. Increased membership more effective voice sector brought together.
• 1. Bringing providers together.
• 2. Members – reach
• 3. –
• 4. Smooth transition – maintaining key values
• 5. Bring fostering on board
• 6. Seat on key strategic government led boards. A partner not a lobbyist.
• 1. Recognition
• 2. Relationship with Ofsted to improve (lessen the negative)
• 3. Fragmentation of sector/make children more central
• 4. Unity & continuation. Transition of knowledge
• 5. Achieve number 2 with Ofsted. Grow membership and partnerships but in an

agreed way (fostering etc)

• 6. Recognition with other bodies, work more with other bodies – public image

and knowledge.

• 1. More visibility
• 2. More legal challenge of LA
• 3. Less of useless transitions
• 4. CEO – more changes to children & residential board
• 5. Standardised inspections
• 6. Theory built into commissioning.

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• 1. Voice
• 2. Lobbying
• 3. –
• 4. Relationships
• 5. Participation
• 6. Inclusive
• 1. Credible voice
• 2. Confidence
• 3. Being a second-class citizen
• 4. Visit the homes and get to know the sector
• 5. Know the sector really well
• 6. To use info to drive sector forward
• 1. A voice & presence
• 2. Closer interface with Ofsted
• 3. Frameworks
• 4. Greater membership & solidarity/regional meetings
• 5. –
• 6. Improved collegiate working with central govt.

RESPONSES BY EMAIL

• 1. I think giving children’s homes a collective voice at the highest level has been

excellent and effective. We now have an influence. This is the priority and has been done very well by Jonathon.

2.

• Bulletins an excellent source of information.
• Practical tools and advice.
• Model responses to LA issues-again often helpful.

3.

• Less “urgent and important” emails-they rarely are and it makes me question

the organisations focus and priorities. I recently came back from a week’s leave and found about 30 e-mails from ICHA-all of them urgent and important apparently!

• More focus on children’s home and less on side issues. We don’t have to

campaign or be involved in everything. Yes, there is a bigger picture but ICHA is in danger of diluting its energies too much.

• Too much energy spent in needless and pointless conflict.
• (We are a member of both and NAFP are less reactive more considered and

more focussed by comparison with ICHA),

• 4. Bring the thoughtful and considered approach you have shown in your

documents that were circulated into ICHA’s work.

• 5. Don’t let the agenda be set by the big providers.
• 6. Let’s see what Brexit brings then ask me again!

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• 1. Opportunities to share RI experiences, positives, challenges and CPD

examples.

• 2. Further advance notice of upcoming events, I often struggle to attend due to

prior diary commitments so a 12-month schedule would address that challenge.

• 3. Opportunity to discuss children’s learning disability homes experiences with

ICHA members in this area.

• 4. Consider national themed meetings based on the different sectors in ICHA.

E.g. allowing national LD, autism and specialist providers to come together.

• 5. We would like to extend an invitation to Peter to visit our services (we respect

that he might not be able to accommodate this though).