Ben Spragg Email & Phone Number

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom

• Assessing and providing feedback on Semi Independent Providers (SIP) policies and procedures ensuring they meet Kent County Council Standards.• Contacting SIP providers for updates regarding their Ofsted registration status and assisting with letters of support to Ofsted.• Logging and reporting to senior management any unlawful SIP placements made across the United Kingdom.• Undertaking Quality Assurance visits for SIP properties.• Logging and being a part of the decision process regarding potential sanctions on SIP providers and liaising with local authority designated officers regarding inspections/investigations on the provider.• Provided reporting and data analysis for commissioners when Invitation to Tender was advertised regarding a reception center for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC)• Provider emergency bed reporting and spreadsheet creations for UASC• Log, file, and report to senior management regarding incidents within four unregulated providers numerous accommodations daily and providing a monthly report.• Report writing after expression of interest procedure for the Accommodation and Support Pathway using The Kent Business Portal and Contact Management System.• Log, file, and report to senior management regarding police checks undertaken on any potential new properties the provider is interested in.• Monitoring my own inbox as well as the team’s three other joint inboxes.• Creation of new spreadsheets and keeping systems and filing up to date to make my own and my team’s job more streamlined.

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom

• Assess applications made to our service for potential help with food and energy vouchers.• Use my own discretion to decide whether to award or decline an application while emailing or on the phone to an applicant.• Liaising with social workers, schools and other council services via email or phone.• Assisting with the training of new members of staff and mentoring them in their new role.• Using our triage system to send applications that are eligible forward to the Assessment Officers and using rough guidelines to decline any that are not.• Using my knowledge of the councils’ policies and guidelines to deem whether applications are high, medium, or low priority.• Providing information for further help and support to applicants after their application has been awarded or declined.• Answering telephone calls and emails from members of the public that have made an application.

Maidstone, England, United Kingdom

• Working with key stage one and two students.• Assisted teachers in preparing creative, innovative, and educational lessons, adapting to suit children with special educational needs.• Looked after children's physical, social, and emotional welfare by following Government regulations.• Supported teachers in monitoring classrooms and student progress for learning development reporting purposes.