Mobiles Rsourcing Project Update #1

The Mobile Meet Organising Committee met yesterday at Bingara to continue the organising work for the Mobile Meet. An Advance Notice has been e-mailed and mailed to everyone - Still waiting for some replies!

The program for the Meet was finalised yesterday. We decided to bring the IR Forum up the agenda to after lunch on Wednesday - A half-hour 'taster' for the 1.5 hour IR workshop on Thursday afternoon.

We also did some work on the Tuesday evening ice-breaker, Friday pep-session and the Wednesday morning pep-session - It's looking very inspirational.

Most of the workshops have been organised. For the others, we have decided on the topics and the content.

I'm off to Sydney on Wednesday for a meeting with DOCS on the Children's Services Costing Manual - Should be interesting!

On Thursday, I'm also in Sydney for a forum organised by 'A Good Start Alliance' on the development of a decent early education and care system in NSW. I'm a delegate from the NSW Children's Services Forum for this. There will be plenty of shakers and movers at this forum, so it may have some impact. Perhaps if it was connected with a parent/users action group? That is, connected to a lobbying strategy that has seen the NSW Preschool Campaign post some successes.

On Friday, I will do another e-letter. This one will concentrate on DOCS' Funding Reform and the various bits and pieces of documentation that contribute to this - DOCS' funded children's services aren't first cab off the rank for this, but they will be included later. I'm particularly interested in how the reforms will play out with the supposed new money coming into DOCS' Children's Services program after the NSW Budget on June 6th. Wednesday's costing manual meeting should give me a better idea of how this is travelling.

I'll also be drafting a letter from MCSA to Children's Services Central on the subject of the importance of the 20 odd FACS funded Mobiles being properly resourced by those experienced in Mobiles and with a long history in Mobile affairs.

Tim