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CQEC JOURNAL

CQEC Journal 2005

ISBN- 978 131 070 7278

Published by SeaQuake Books

Copyright 2005. Individual contributors.

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This issue-

Health inter-agency working and community engagement.

Housing promoting equality and diversity from Board level.

Leadership Common Purpose!

Education A new model of effective teaching.

Crime A successful exercise in public protection.

Community Building successful partnerships between parents and schools

AUTUMN 2005

FOREWORD

The Centre for Quality in Education and the Community is a management development organisation working in the Public, Private and Voluntary sectors. The Centre was established in 1998 to support Educational, Business and Community Development in Central Liverpool.

CQEC has a number of clear strategic themes which attract wide partnership support.

-Sound organisational and educational processes are at the heart of any business or community development.

-Organisations should respect and involve the constituencies in which they work- including their clients, staff, suppliers, tradesmen and neighbours.

-Success should be identified and celebrated.

-Development and regeneration requires team-work. In a Local Authority this will be multi agency and cross-sector.

As a Research and Development Agency, CQEC produces an educational journal and promotes good practice in four key areas of organisational life-

-Leadership and Management. We support strong, critical and supportive Governance at Board level and highly effective strategic and operational planning and delivery by managers.

-Professional development. We support organisational restructuring, work evaluation, the creation of professional profiles, the management and maintenance of systems and the promotion of personal responsibility for development.

-Recognising and rewarding success. We work with organisations to highlight significant achievement, to identify good practice from inspection and audit reports, and to reward the achievement of customised performance standards.

-Developing community resources. We assist in the establishment of Charitable Trusts, the closure of redundant Trusts, the identification of sponsors, marketing strategies, grant applications and the recognition of those making a qualitative contribution to their communities.

The Journal is aimed at policy makers on a local and national level. These include- the Leaders, Chief Executives and Senior Officers on local councils, regional governmental officers, local MPs, relevant ministerial departments and the office of the Prime Minister.

In this issue-

Dr. Ray Orsborn, a retired General Practitioner, argues that providing good, relevant, sensitive services that address and influence the complexity of inner-city health problems, inevitably means much closer working with social workers, headteachers, housing managers, pharmacists, voluntary and community groups and other local authority departments such as leisure, libraries and the police. It also, and crucially, means listening to what local residents want and acting on their concerns, even if their priorities sometimes seem strange, irritating or even trivial.

Mike Winters, the Director of Housing for Hornby Homes, a Merseyside based Housing Association and a member of the PLUS Group, focuses upon issues of Equality and Diversity. As part of a detailed examination of his subject, he sees the seriousness with which a Board engages with the Equality and Diversity agenda as impacting upon the strategic and operational responses of the entire Association. His work