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Fife Council Education Services Strike Gold – R4E

Congratulations to Fife Council Education Services on attaining Recognised for Excellence (R4E) Gold level. First assessed in 2005 Education Services have continued to improve year on year to achieve this prestigious European recognition of the outstanding services they provide to the Fife Community.

The assessment team based their evaluation on the service’s leadership, people, partnership-working and what they had achieved in terms of performance. One of the key themes identified by the assessment team was a strong culture of involvement and empowerment , with leaders clearly demonstrating that they regard their people as their best asset. There was also clear evidence of strategic partnership engagement leading to a holistic approach to developing children services. The organisation has clearly linked the services they provide to their three priorities: attainment, achievement and inclusion.

Recent C2E Success

Congratulations to the following organisations on achieving Committed to Excellence:

• Arran Community and Voluntary Service
• CVS Aberdeenshire Central and South
• East Lothian Voluntary Organisations' Council
• Options for Independence (The British Red Cross)
• Signpost Inc
• Skye and Lochalsh CVO
• Stewartry Council for Voluntary Service
• Volunteer Centre Glasgow

C2E – Second time success

Well done to British Red Cross, Options for Independence on being the first voluntary sector organisation to receive C2E recognition for a second time.

Options for Independence provides time limited residential services, respite and Care in the Home and Housing Support services across a number of Local Authority areas in Scotland.

Delighted with their success, Operational Manager, Margaret Geddes commented “Our three improvement projects sound like a lot of additional work but they were already part of our 2011 team plan and we planned to work towards achieving these improvements. The award gives us external recognition for the work we do and is helpful to us, both in providing evidence in our Care Inspectorate visits and in strengthening our submission in tender processes for new service contracts”

Partnership Working/Partner Events

MSc ICT Leadership

Napier University have introduced an MSc ICT Leadership. This Masters course focuses on equipping professionals in all sectors with fresh business understanding and technology capabilities to help them fulfil leadership roles and use technology to drive business improvement. This work-based degree, provides you with a context of excellence against which you can assess your own organisation andothers using the EFQM Excellence Model as a framework, and with input from experts who have supported many senior management teams to develop ICT strategy across their organisations. Further information on this course can be obtained from: Dr Colin Smith at cf.smith@napier.ac.uk or tell 0131 455 2774.

Glasgow Caledonian University’s Employers Liaison Group

Quality Scotland has recently become a member of an Employers Liaison Group organised by the Department of Management in Glasgow Caledonian University’s Glasgow School for Business and Society. The aim of the group is to generate knowledge exchange between employers, academics and post-graduate students on the Department’s MBA and MSc Management Suite of programmes.

If interested in engaging with the Employer Liaison Group activities please contact:

Dr Alaine Sommerville, Quality Scotland, alaine.sommerville@qualityscotland.co.uk or Dr Elizabeth Williamson, E.Williamson@gcu.ac.uk, Chair of the Employer Liaison Group.

GHA Learning Journey

The GHA Learning Journey slides are now available. To download your copy please click on the links below.

Martin Armstrong, Chief Executive, GHA

Mags Lightbody, Director of Business Development & Growth, GHA

Michelle Rodger: Scotland needs a mark of quality for the world stage

Read up on our recent article in the Scotland on Sunday (9th October, 2011) and please feel free to send us your viewpoints/comments.

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business/Michelle-Rodger-Scotland-needs-a.6850024.jp

Investors in People

Well done to all the staff at Quality Scotland for recently achieving the Investors in People standard for the third year running. Quality Scotland's Chief Excecutive, Dave Bradley commented "I would like to thank everyone for their contribution as it was recognised by the validator that QS is a team and we all play our part. Thank you to the team for their hard work and for promoting Quality Scotland once again in such a positive way". 

C2E Success - Congratulations!

Congratulations on achieving C2E Success to:

• CVS North
• Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire
  The Bridge - Dumfries and Galloway
• Voluntary ActionLochaber
• Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise
• Clackmannanshire CVS
• Volunteer Centre Midlothian
• The Ayrshire Community Trust
• MidlothianVoluntary Action
• Sense Scotland
• Volunteer ActionDumfries and Galloway
• Volunteer Centre Edinburgh
• Caithness Voluntary Group
• Forth Sector Development

Sponsorship Opportunities

Are you a supporter of Excellence in Scotland? If so don't miss the chance to be recognised as an ambassador for Excellence to sponsor one of Quality Scotland's exciting events in 2012! For more details, contact anne.sutherland@qualityscotland.co.uk.

 

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