Advanced Leadership in an Integrated Children's Service Environment: How Academic Poster Presentations Have Facilitated Developments in Multiagency Teamwork and Professional Learning and Dissemination

• In Event: 68.015 - Pathways to Improving Opportunity for Marginalized Children in International Contexts

Abstract

This paper outlines and evaluates how the Advanced Leadership in Children’s Service Education (ALICSE) programme took place between 2010 and 2015 across England, UK. In particular, using data gathered from the East Midlands cohort, it outlines how senior leaders across areas of children’s services (from health, education, local authority, legal and policing sectors) developed integrated leadership practices which supported marginalized children and their families through a policy initiative that supported these leaders to come together in a multi-disciplinary environment to learn a common professional language. These senior leaders achieved 30 credits towards Level 7 (Masters) degrees, from this programme, that were little used until different assessment strategies were developed. This paper traces the assessment methods that enabled these senior leaders to achieve.

Authors

• Deborah Emily Outhwaite, University of Warwick

• Amanda L. Chilvers, Tapestry Public Charter School

• Amy Flack, University of Rochester