Staff from Schools and Learning, Children and Young People, and Quality and Performance are invited to attend a series of briefings where members of the Senior Leadership Team will outline the budget position and statement of ambition for Children and Learning. Sessions will start with presentations (maximum of 30 minutes) followed by questions and answers.

The first sessions will be held in the Boardroom, Angus House on Wednesday 11 November 2015 starting at 0815 and 1200. It’s OK to come along for part of the session, you don’t have to stay to the end.

Briefings will also be held in Kirriemuir Town Hall on Wednesday 18 November and Carnoustie High School Theatre on Wednesday 2 December. Again sessions will start at 0815 and 1200.

Dates for the Arbroath leg of the SLT tour will follow. Watch this space.

You may be asking, ‘What is SLT?’

Well, SLT (Senior Leadership Team) is a meeting of the senior managers in the People Directorate to manage our key activities and review how we’re progressing. We will be meeting at least twice per month, and it is our intention to provide regular updates following these meetings.

Here are the highlights from yesterday’s meeting:

• We reaffirmed our overarching commitment to fully embrace the ‘Getting It Right’ agenda. This will be reflected in our next Directorate Improvement Plan .
• eSLT will be planning a series of locality roadshows in the coming weeks to explain our budget to our staff and to seek their input and ideas for future budgets. More information will follow.
• We will be reviewing all regular meetings and groups within the Directorate to assess their purpose, value and where the outputs should be reported.
• Communication will be a standing item on  agendas to ensure that we provide information as soon as possible after meetings – like this!
• We want to encourage everyone to contribute to this blog – send us draft entries, comment on what you read, give us ideas about what you’d like to read here, and give us feedback on how useful you find entries like this one.