Advice and Information

Here is a list of ideas and links to websites to help improve behaviour management within the learning environment.

The voluntary registration of new employees and job-movers working or volunteering with children and vulnerable adults with the Vetting and Barring Scheme, which was due to start on 26 July, has been stopped.

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Arts Council of England have published the handbook ‘From policy to partnership: developing the arts in schools’ (2000).

When planning and delivering an arts project, it is important to consider health and safety issues from the outset.

At the planning stage one needs to consider participants, supporting adults, artists and visitors as well as likely venues, potential hazards arising from the immediate environment and the project itself.

When working in the informal Education Sector it is sometimes useful to have a formal lesson plan to ensure that you have considered all aspects of planning and delivering.

Lewisham Council’s Arts Service gives advice about non-council funding streams and runs several grant schemes, available to not for profit arts organisations, to increase the number of people engaging in the arts, broaden the range of people engaging in the arts and raise awareness and profile of the arts in the borough.

Kevin Sheehan, Head of Strategy London Borough of Lewisham, made a presentation titled Lewisham Today to the Lewisham Strategic Partnership board, which provides demographic information on matters such as employment rates, education and health in Lewisham and London.

The Mayor’s Youth Task Force, led by Pete Walsh, ex head teacher of Forest Hill School, met during 2010 and published its final report to the Mayor and Cabinet on 19th January 2011.

With unprecedented difficulties facing the voluntary and community sector as a result of recent funding decisions, it is vital that organisations across England are able to challenge bad funding practice, and work in partnership to develop and design better policies and services.

The Arts council  and Voluntary Arts Network have both published handbooks giving guidance on how to organise an event.

LEAN can offer extensive help with monitoring and evaluation; there is also additional help on offer in the borough from the Community Services Directorate and Voluntary Action Lewisham who run occassional courses - check our Professional Development section for any current courses.

Lewisham’s Sustainable Community Strategy