Transcript School Improvement presentation

School Improvement: The
way forward in East Sussex
Penny Gaunt
Deputy Director of Children’s Services
January 2011
CSR – ESCC impact
• A range of funding announcements were made in the
Local Government Financial Settlement on 13 Dec 2010
• Picture is clearer but some grants are under review
(£10m) some are unconfirmed and some are “missing in
action”
• Funding position for CSA should be finalised by the 31
March when Council sets council tax
• Final position on Schools may not be confirmed for a
further six months
2011/12 CSA Budget
• Impact of the Funding settlement is significant - equates
to a £10.4m cut in funding for CSD Central Services. *1
• A further £1.7m has been cut from the departmental cash
limit *1
• New spending pressures amount to £5.1m.
• £3.5m cuts made in grants previously received centrally
and are now included in Schools budget baseline
• In total this is a £20.7m reduction in cash terms.
Note 1. County Forum paper Reference paragraph 2.1
2011/12 Schools budgets
• DfE announced 0.1 % pa real terms increase in funding
over three years to cover increased pupil numbers and
Pupil Premium
• Minimum Funding Guarantee has been set at -1.5% per
pupil for individual schools
• £38.7m of specific and standards fund grants will be
transferred into Schools budget baseline.
• Excluding the impact of academies expect overall unit
cash values to remain unchanged in 2011/12 - there may
be increased pressure on headroom funding used to fund
central services
• Additional commitment for Early years PVIs £2.6m
• Pupil Premium to be introduced in April equating to £430
per deprived pupil (in accordance with eligibility criteria,
free school meals / LAC,
2012/13 and beyond
Opportunity for
reflection
Service Impact (1)
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Connexions related work
Targeted Youth Support
Children’s Centres
Early Years Provision
Disability short breaks
Specialist Parenting Services
Preventative family support
Service Impact (2)
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Education Psychology Service
Behaviour and Attendance
SEN and Disability
Targeted Youth Support
Standards and Learning Effectiveness Service
Support Services
Anti-Bullying
Language and Learning Support
Excellence Cluster
Ethnic Minority Achievement
Children’s Services Department:
Policy Steers
1. Promote good health for children and young
people and reduce health inequalities.
2. Protect children and young people from harm
and neglect.
3. Develop resilience in families to help reduce
dependency on public services by enhancing
their capacity to resolve their own problems.
4. Improve outcomes for Looked After Children
and Care Leavers, as well as improving
support to children and young people on the
edge of care.
Children’s Services Department:
Policy Steers
5. Support and challenge schools to raise
educational achievement and aspirations at all
key stages and target interventions at those
most vulnerable to under achievement.
6. Work with partners to minimise the number of
young people who are not in employment,
education or training.
7. Promote the benefits of young people making
a positive contribution to their community and
decisions affecting their own lives.
8. Ensure children, young people and families
have opportunities to shape the development
of a sustainable future for the county.
Position Statement
The current proposals for the development of
a revised School Improvement Strategy for
East Sussex have four central aims:
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To discharge a set of responsibilities that
are statutory or considered essential,
within the Children’s Services
Department (CSD) with regard to raising
standards for all pupils and closing the
gap on the outcomes of the most
vulnerable children.
Position Statement contd.
2. To develop the role of the Local Authority
(LA) with regard to key elements of
those responsibilities identified by the
Coalition Government including:
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Acting as a champion for parents and families
Promoting a good supply of strong schools
Supporting vulnerable children and pupils
Championing educational excellence
Developing school improvement strategies
Position Statement contd.
3. To maintain sufficient leadership and
intervention capacity necessary to
develop a high quality, effective Traded
Services that would operate within and
outside East Sussex.
Position Statement contd.
4. To develop high quality services that
have sufficient flexibility to respond to
the changing context, priorities and
requirements and are affordable, in the
context of significant, continuing
reductions in funding received from the
Coalition Government.
Opportunity for
reflection
Priorities and planning for the
future
These proposals reflect the planning across the
Council and seek to strike a balance between:
• meeting the needs of the most vulnerable
schools, colleges, and settings and of the most
vulnerable children and learners;
• maintaining sufficient preventative work to
mitigate the detrimental impact of service reduction
on individual children and learners and on childcare,
schools, colleges and settings, without increasing
downstream costs.
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
Our planning must recognise significant changes
in context:
• the development and promotion by the government of
new school systems;
• the commitment of the government to provide better
services to the public, with greater efficiency, at lower
cost;
• increased emphasis on partnerships between schools;
• a very limited role in school improvement for SIPs;
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
• developments in schools’ accountability
including changes in the focus and frequency of
inspection;
• new performance measures for schools,
colleges and settings;
• the end of the National Strategies programme;
• the reduced LA involvement in FE and the wider
14–19 reform; and
• the shift of resources from LAs to schools.
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
We will target our work with schools, colleges and
settings; key activities (some of which will be delivered
through a high quality traded service[1]) will include:
• analysis of performance data and identification of risk
of failure and key strategies to secure on-going
improvement in childcare, schools, colleges and settings;
• commissioning a diversity of high quality provision 0-19
from a range of providers to meet the needs and
ambitions of children and young people in childcare,
schools, colleges and settings;
[1] During the last six months Lou Carter, Assistant Director, Planning and
Performance Management has led a programme to develop a Traded Services
provision for the whole of the CSD.
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
• identification of the challenge and support
required to improve satisfactory and inadequate
childcare, schools, colleges and settings;
• intervention in childcare and schools where
there is failure, including overseeing the
transition of the school to new management if
appropriate;
• support for childcare, schools and colleges to
develop targeted strategies and practice to
improve the performance of the most vulnerable
groups;
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
• support for schools and teachers to prepare for
and manage developments in the curriculum
and in performance measures;
• support for schools to implement effective
policies, strategies and procedures to ensure the
safeguarding and welfare of pupils;
• support for teachers to improve the quality of
teaching;
• support for middle level teachers to enhance the
effectiveness of leadership and management
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
• support for schools to develop effective
strategies to manage pupil behaviour and safety;
• support for Governing Bodies to strengthen
strategic direction;
• support for clerks of Governing Bodies;
• support for Governing Bodies for specific
strategic activities e.g. consideration of
alternative approaches to leadership and to
school organisation including partnership and
federations; headteacher appointments etc;
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
• develop a strategic role as champions for parents, families and
vulnerable pupils and ensure appropriate provision to meet
identified needs;
• support for schools, colleges, settings, parents and young
people to secure participation in education, employment and
training to 18;
• facilitation of school to school improvement through
partnerships, collaborations, Federations, Trusts and
academies;
• management of change in the school system to mitigate the
risk of detrimental impact on schools and learners;
• shaping the educational vision for East Sussex to support
economic growth and community cohesion;
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
The service will develop effective partnerships to deliver
improved outputs and outcomes, the priorities are
currently:
• raise standards at each key stage and outcomes for
Level 2 and Level 3 at 19;
• increase the percentage of young people staying in
learning to 18 and reduce the percentage of young people
who are not in education, employment or training (NEET);
• narrow the gap, particularly in the foundation stages
between outcomes for the 20% most deprived and other
children and for pupils entitled to free school meals in all
key stages;
Priorities and planning for the
future contd.
• improve Key Stage 2 results, particularly in
mathematics;
• secure in all schools a ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’
Ofsted judgement for pupil behaviour;
• ensure that no school is in an Ofsted category
and increase the proportion that receive
inspection judgements of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’.
Opportunity for
reflection
Traded Services
• Services currently reviewing their existing
work with schools, and identifying those
that may need to be traded from April 2011
• This is in addition to the current existing
services that are currently provided
through services to schools
• Service managers are developing how the
service offers which will be available to
schools to buy
Traded Services
• Consultation with schools over new service
offers is happening now. Primary SMB
meeting in January has presentations on
traded services offers.
• Tight timeline. Aim is to have all service
offers available for schools to view by
February 2011
• Service Offers would then take effect from
April 2011
• Bursars conference arranged for March 2011
where services to schools will be covered
Traded Services
• DfE has decided to discontinue the OPEN
Marketplace from 1st April 2011.
• Alternative processes including building on
existing electronic ordering and invoicing
capabilities being explored.
• Plan for offers to feature on Czone as web
pages
Questions and
comments