What is a Deep Dive?

VEYA:Deep Dives are very different to self-evaluation questions and audits.

When we use traditional self-evaluation materials, we can only answer with the knowledge that we possess at that time…and sometimes, we don’t know what we don’t know. This can often give us the false sense that our systems, processes and practice are a strength when there is still work to be done.

Deep Dives use a supported self-assessment approach which enables leadership teams to:

• Objectively identify their strengths and where provision could and should be developed,
• Pinpoint breaches in legislation and/or inspection vulnerabilities,
• Identify things that they didn’t know and/or things that weren’t on their radar,
• Develop their professional knowledge and move practice forward.

The objectivity comes from the framework that sits behind VEYA. 

Once an audit is complete, we’ll turn your responses into a detailed report which uses a red, amber, green and dark green traffic light system to highlight your strengths and areas for development.

Most reports will contain some red or amber statements, so we always recommend actions that can be taken to strengthen your approach within your report. We also provide an understanding of why each area needs to be developed which will help to broaden and deepen professional knowledge.

Keeping All Children Safe and Protecting Vulnerable Children is the first module in this series. 

We advise that this module be undertaken before any of the others as we need to satisfy ourselves that we can identify vulnerable children at the earliest opportunity and take swift and appropriate actions to keep them safe. In addition, we will want to be able to demonstrate that our child protection and safeguarding arrangements are rigorous and consistent during an inspection.