Quality Assurance Working Party Report: October 2011
Twenty two volunteers have agreed to take part in the pilot, some institutions and some individuals. Participantswill be asked to evaluate the tutor audit and/or take part in the professional peer supervision (PPS) scheme. A representative from the institutions involved will be invited to take part in the pilot PPS training day in January.
On 7th September anemail was sent to all who had expressed an interest in participating in the pilot study, together with the following attachments: an introductory letter, a form to complete and a copy of the pilot self-audit tool and notes. The intention was to ‘catch’ as many people as possible before the start of the October rush.A total of 22 emails were sent.
On 22nd Septembera paragraph was put on the ADSHE website about the Quality Assurance pilot scheme. The documents to be put on are:
- The electronic letter
- The form
- Tutor audit
- Notes to accompany the audit
The participants were asked to submit a short report or answer the following questions:
- How easy was the tool to complete?
- How useful was it?
- Which sections did you find the most useful, and why?
- What suggestions do you have for improvement? What should be added / deleted?
- Is the format appropriate? If not, please suggest an alternative.
There have been 13 responses from people who are prepared to take part; 4 have completed forms; 3 have already provided comments on the tool. A further email will be sent out as a reminder to the other 9 people who have yet to respond in the next week. If there is no further response, an email will be sent out to the QA email group and/or the ADSHE membership to try to get a few more participants.
Professional Peer Supervision
The WP has drafted a supervision leaflet to go on the website to provide background information about professional peer supervision.
TZ/JS have met twice to discuss the supervision course and have started to work on the format of the day. This is completely new territory and it is anticipated that a further 3 meetings will be required in order to complete the preparations for the course.
The course itself will run as a pilot– participants will not pay to attend butwill have to fund their own travel costs. A sandwich lunch will be provided. A date has been booked for Monday 9th January at Laycock Educational Centre, Islington for a maximum of 18 participants. It is hopedto send out furtherinformation about the training dayduring the weekbeginning Monday 24th October (further to the QA meeting prior to the exec meeting on Friday 21st October.)
It is the intention that after the pilot course, modifications will be made and an application for accreditation put forward to SASCfor future courses.
Partnership
Emails were sent to Dyslexia Action, BDA and Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre. Kate Saunders from the BDA has respondedand a meeting has been arranged for Tuesday 8th November. Barry Johnson from Dyslexia Action has passed on the information to Claire Shanks at Sheffield University.
At Ros’ suggestion, JS contacted Helen Davies at Swansea University as she is involved with a similar QA provision for the Disability Service.
JS has had discussions with Bernadette MacLean from Helen Arkell, and Lynn Greenwold [from Patoss.
Email from Sue Flohr, National Helpline & Policy Manager, BDA:
‘Thank you so much for sharing this with us. A lot of work seems to
have gone into compiling it but it will be very reassuring all round. It looks really good.’
Information about the QA work was sent to the SFE Non-Medical Helpers researchers. This is the response from Liz Maudsley:
‘Thank you for your very informative response. When we have collated written information we will be holding a series of regional discussion groups and hope you or other members of ADSHE will be able to attend one of these.’
Janet Skinner
19th October 2011
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