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Autumn Term
Governor Area
Briefings
Monday 12 November 2012
at Future House
And
Tuesday 13 November 2012
At Victoria Primary School, Keighley
Department of Children’s Services
Key Issues for Schools
and
Governors this Term
Partnership Working
• Bradford Primary Improvement
Partnership
• Bradford Partnership
• Nursery Schools
• District Achievement Partnership
Diversity
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Community Schools
Faith Schools
Academies
Free Schools
Studio Schools
Bradford Schools
Type of School
Age
Range
Maintaining
Authority
Nursery Schools
3 to 5
Bradford LA
7
Primary Schools
3 to 11
Bradford LA
152
Secondary Schools
11 to 19
Bradford LA
19
Through Academies
3 to 19
DfE
2
Secondary Academies
11 to 19
DfE
7
Primary Academies
3 to 11
DfE
3
Primary Free Schools
3 to 11
DfE
2
Secondary Free Schools
11 to 19
DfE
2
Special Schools
3 to 19
Bradford LA
7
Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) 5 to 19
Bradford LA
7
Studio Schools
14 to 19 DfE
Total
Number in Bradford
District – Jan 2012
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209
Transport Consultation
• The Council is consulting on proposals to make changes to the policy for
assistance with travel arrangements between home, school and college
• The consultation runs between 12 November 2012 and 25 January 2013
• If changes are made they would come into effect for children who start
primary school, secondary school, 6th form or college from September
2014.
• The proposed changes subject to consultation are
– Remove transport assistance for new pupils that do not attend their
nearest suitable qualifying school.
– Introduce personal budgets for statutory aged children.
– Introduce a charge for Post 16 students with special needs towards
transport provision.
– Introduce an allowance for Post 16 students with special needs to
provide assistance with purchasing transport.
– Introduce a travel training assessment for all Post 16 students with
special needs applying for transport assistance.
Public Forum for Education
“Demographic Changes in Bradford - The impact on Education Provision”
Wednesday 21st November 2012, 4.30pm – 6.30pm
Conference Room D, Future House
The main areas of discussion will include;
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Data on migration and population growth and the impact on provision of school
places
Attainment case studies - leading culturally successful and diverse schools explain
what works well
Headteachers will speak about how language diversity brings both positive benefits
as well as challenges
What issues arise from EU migration and Asylum?
Where are the gaps? – open discussion
Education Results
and Priorities
Overview
Phil Weston
Head of the Bradford
Achievement Service
Department of Children’s Services
Early Years Foundation Stage
% 6+ Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSE)
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75
Bradford
70
Statistical Neighbours
65
England
60
55
50
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Early Years Foundation Stage
% 6+ Communication, Language and Literacy Development (CLL)
70
65
60
Bradford
55
Stastical Neighbours
England
50
45
40
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Early Years Foundation Stage
% 78+ Points and 6+ PSE & CLL - Good Level of Development (GLD)
65
60
55
Bradford
50
Stastical Neighbours
England
45
40
35
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Key Stage 1
% L2B+ Reading
80
75
70
Bradford
65
National
Statistical Neighbour
60
55
50
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Key Stage 1
% L2B+ Writing
70
65
60
Bradford
55
National
Statistical Neighbour
50
45
40
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Key Stage 1
% L2B+ Maths
78
76
74
72
Bradford
70
National
68
Statistical Neighbour
66
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62
60
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Key Stage 2
90
English % Level 4+
85
80
Bradford
75
National
Statistical Neighbour
70
65
60
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Key Stage 2
Maths % Level 4+
90
85
80
Bradford
75
National
Statistical Neighbour
70
65
60
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Key Stage 2
English & Maths % Level 4+
80
78
76
74
72
Bradford
70
National
68
Statistical Neighbour
66
64
62
60
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Key Stage 2
95
English 2 levels progress
90
Bradford
85
England
80
75
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Key Stage 2
Maths 2 levels progress
95
90
85
Bradford
England
80
75
70
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Key Stage 4
60
% 5+ A*-C including English and maths
55
50
45
Bradford
40
Statistical Neighbours
England
35
30
25
20
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Key Stage 4
85
% 5+ A*-C
80
75
70
65
Bradford
60
Statistical Neighbours
55
England
50
45
40
35
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Key Stage 4
English 3 levels progress
75
70
65
Bradford
England
60
55
50
2009
2010
2011
2012
Key Stage 4
Maths 3 levels progress
70
65
60
Bradford
55
England
50
45
40
2009
2010
2011
2012
Supporting
‘Young Carers’
in Schools
Peter Rutherford and Janice
Hawkes,
Assistant Director Children’s
Services,
Barnardo’s Yorkshire
Department of Children’s Services
Who are young carers?
Children and Young People who provide some
form of support to one or more family members
as a result of a family member having an illness
or impairment.
This includes:
 Mental illness
 Physical illness
 Physical or sensory impairment
 Learning disability
 Substance misuse issues
How many Young Carers are there?
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175,000 Young Carers nationally (Office For
National Statistics 2003)
Relies on self identification
Potentially inaccurate- reluctance to identify
in some situations
Estimate 2,000- 2,500 in Bradford MDC
Average age of a young carer is 12
More than half of young carers live in lone
parent households
Impact
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EDUCATION
“….. they wouldn’t go to school, they wouldn’t
leave me. They were scared.”
Lateness
Unauthorised absence
Tiredness in class
Failure to do course work
Some focus on school as chance to be child
and do well
Impact
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Education
“I was often late for school, sometimes I
stayed off to look after her, sometimes didn’t
have the right uniform, or the right books; I
was tired and fell asleep in class a few times.
I tended to lose my temper and get sent out
of class. I would ‘act up’ trying to get attention
and wanting somebody to ask me what was
wrong. “
Training and employment
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Choosing between own career/education or
being a carer
Going to college near home
As young carers reach 18 the impact of
earlier missed education becomes obvious
with limited training and employment
opportunities
Identification
Young carers are hidden
 Hierarchy of acceptability - children can
collude with parents to remain hidden
“ My nan has told me not to tell you anything
about home”
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“Working Together To Support Young
Carers”
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A Model Local Memorandum of
Understanding between Statutory Directors
for Children’s Services and Adult Social
Services
All local authorities urged to sign up to this
Government backing
Aims to improve identification and support of
young carers by placing responsibility on all
services in contact with family
Young Carers Services
Effective model
 Time limited
 Assessment, planning and review
 Clear outcomes
 Whole family approach
Young Carers Services
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Increasing focus on hard to reach groups
Hidden Harm- parental substance misuse
Parental Mental Health
Leads to increasing complexity of work- more
of a Safeguarding role
Biennial reviews of serious case reviews
identified parental mental health and
parental substance misuse as recurring
themes in serious case reviews.
Schools work
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Support school to develop YC policy
Identify, train and support YC lead in school
School are crucial to initial support and
identification
Young Carers card
Case study
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Tabassum referred to service when 13
Cared for mum and dad- dad phys. Ill mum phys
and mentally ill
Practical tasks, financial, personal, caring for sibling
Support from school and Barnardo’s - referrals to
social services did not lead to any support
Father passed away a few years ago
Service supported her through practical advice,
financial and emotional support
Tabassum joined young carers committee, did well
at school and is now studying for a degree and
works for BYC
“I never thought I would make it to
University and I wouldn’t have – without
the support of Bradford Young Carers. At
times it’s been really difficult – but I’ve
made it. I applied to Universities all over
the place just for the hell of it, even
though I knew I couldn’t leave home.
Fortunately I got into the University of
Bradford and can stay at home and carry
on looking after mum.”
The way forward
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Achieve strategic commitment to “Working
Together To Support Young Carers”
Identify current position and required actions
To achieve improved identification and
support of Young Carers by universal
services
How can you as governors support this?
Revisions to the
Ofsted Framework
– September 2012
David Thompson
Senior Area Achievement
Officer
Department of Children’s Services
Objectives
For you to be aware of:
• Key inspection documents
• The Inspection Framework September 2012
• The enhanced role played by Governance under the
new framework
• The timings of inspections
Key documents
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The framework for school inspection
School inspection handbook
Subsidiary guidance
‘Zip file’ – a range of guidance
documents
• Documents relating to monitoring
inspections
• Summary document produced by BAS
The Framework is pretty much
unchanged from January 2012…
• Report on the quality of education provided with
an emphasis on achievement, teaching,
behaviour & safety and leadership &
management and also..
• Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
and…
• Extent to which the school meets the needs of a
range of pupils particularly disabled and special
needs and
• The effectiveness of the sixth form
…but the bar has been raised...
• An acceptable standard of education is
now defined as a good standard of
education – “A good education for all”
• Schools cannot be judged as outstanding
unless they have outstanding teaching
• A school that is not yet ‘good’, but is not
judged inadequate, is a school that ‘requires
improvement’
and the return of serious
weaknesses…
• A school that is ‘inadequate’ overall requires
significant improvement, but where leadership
and management are not ‘inadequate’, is a
school with serious weaknesses
• A school that is ‘inadequate’ overall and where
leadership and management are ‘inadequate’,
is a school requiring special measures
The January 2012 Framework
• Reduced the judgements from 29 or 33 down to just 5
• With the demise of “Every Child Matters” more
emphasis was given to the spiritual, moral, social and
cultural development (SMSC)
• Importance attached to reading, writing,
communication and mathematical skills
• Judging teaching over time
• Judging behaviour over time with emphasis placed on
bullying
• Curriculum coming under leadership and management
Additionally the new framework
focuses further on….
• The progress pupils make relative to their
starting points - critical when judging
achievement (transition matrices)
• Closing attainment gaps especially for
groups who may be vulnerable especially
pupils in receipt of the pupil premium
and…
• Dispelling the myth of the ideal Ofsted
lesson
• Focusing more on the leadership in and
management of the school including:
– Role of governors
– Professional development and performance
management of all staff
– Role of LA/Academy sponsors
The role of Governors in
inspection
• Governance featured prominently in the mandatory training for
inspectors
• Governance is subsumed into the evaluation criteria for leadership
and management
• Clear grade descriptors within the evaluation criteria (see summary
document p.5)
• Detailed guidance for inspectors is provided in the handbook (pp 4142 and cited in Oct 2012 Note Pad)
• An evaluative statement in every report
• If grade 3 or 4 Governance becomes an area for improvement
• Reference to independent external review of the Governing Body
The timings of inspection
• Outstanding schools are exempt but…
• Good schools within 5 years but…
• Requires improvement within 2 years and subject to
monitoring and support inspections - first within 4 to 6
weeks of published report
• Serious weakness up to 3 monitoring inspections over an
18 month period the first within 4 to 6 weeks of the
published report.
• Special measures up to 5 monitoring inspections over an
18 month period the first within 4 to 6 weeks of the
published report.
• Legacy schools – satisfactory & Notice to Improve
Shorter notice inspections – the
Monday to Wednesday phone call.
• The lead inspector (not CfBT) will normally inform the
school at, or after, noon on the working day before the
inspection.
• Pre-inspection analysis based on available data,
previous inspection report, qualifying complaints Parent
View responses and school website information
• School’s self evaluation in advance and a list of key
documents to be available on arrival (see pages 7-8 of
the handbook)
• Deferral very unusual
• No pre-inspection briefing (PIB)
Review
Hopefully you are now more aware of:
• Key inspection documents
• The Inspection Framework September
2012
• The enhanced role played by
Governance under the new framework
• The timings of inspections
Consultation on
Funding Formula
Changes
Andrew Redding
[email protected]
01274 385702
Sarah North
[email protected]
01274 385701
Department of Children’s Services
Do Not Panic!
National Formula Change
• Government required – all local authorities
• Preparation for a ‘national funding formula’
– April 2015???
• Cannot influence certain elements
– Use of the October Census
– Implementation of ‘Place-Plus’ for High Needs provision
2013/14 Review Status
• Consultation on Primary & Secondary formulae completed &
agreed by the Schools Forum on 24 October
• Consultation on the Early Years Single Funding Formula
completed & agreed by the Schools Forum on 24 October, with
further work to be completed on the 2 Year Old offer
• Work on the funding of High Needs is progressing. Will be
discussed by the Schools Forum on 12 December & formal
consultation will follow this
Primary & Secondary - Headlines
• Switch from January to October census as the basis for funding
• Data on which schools are funded to be provided by EFA rather
than calculated by the LA
• Much simpler formulae – max of 12 allowable factors, set by DfE
• Same formulae apply to maintained & academies
• Greater proportion of the DSG delegated to maintained schools
• Fewer centrally managed funds and contingencies available for
maintained schools to access
• Much continuity in the funding of SEN in mainstream schools &
academies
• Minimum Funding Guarantee to protect losers (minus 1.5% per
pupil)
• ‘Ceiling’ to cap the winners
Simplified Formulae
• 12 allowable factors, of which 11 apply to Bradford District
• Key principle: factors need to “add value”
• Using 9 of the 11 (including 2 deprivation factors):
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Basic amount per pupil
Deprivation: Free School Meals
Deprivation: IDACI
Low Prior Attainment
English as an Additional Language
Pupil Mobility
Lump Sum
Split Sites
Rates (at cost)
PFI
2013/14 Early Years
• Continuation of the existing Single Funding Formula
– Funds 3 / 4 year olds in all settings on a termly basis, using a
setting base + deprivation rate per hour
– Transitional protection for maintained providers ceases in 2013/14
(as planned to do so)
• Further work is to be carried out on the funding of the extended
2 year old offer from April 2013
2013/14 High Needs
• Work is currently progressing
• Implications for the funding of:
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Special Schools
Resourced Provision
Pupil Referral Units
Alternative Provision
Centrally Managed SEN provision
Post 15 provision in FE colleges
• Requirement establishment of ‘Place-Plus’ national framework
Funding Mainstream SEN
• Much continuity - we moved to a delegated model in 2005/06
• Focus on establishing a clear continuum
• Key elements:
– Continue to allocate the vast majority of SEN resources to schools
via the SEN funding formulae (which have now changed)
– Shift the ‘threshold’ for funding high value statements from £5,155
to £6,000 to replicate the national formula
– Continue to allocate > £6,000 separately, based on actual value &
adjusted on a monthly basis
– Continue to employ the SEN Funding Floor to ensure a minimum
level of SEN formula funding
– Continue to calculate a notional SEN figure & to separately identify
all SEN resources within a school’s budget (I03 funding)
The Pupil Premium
• Rate of funding for FSM pupils increases to £900 in 2013/14;
increased from £600 this year
• Based on Ever 6
• Also funds Looked After Children – at £900 per pupil in 2013/14
– Possible additional Pupil Premium +
• Schools are required to publish for parents how the Pupil
Premium has been spent
The Schools Forum
• Continues as an important statutory body
• Now ‘publicly accessible’
• All papers now published online (Bradford Schools Online)
• Governors are represented
Academies & Free Schools
• New funding arrangements & formulae also apply
• LACSEG is changing
– Direct delegation via formula funding (for DSG elements)
– Separate additional grant for Local Authority budget elements
– Ceasing of the SEN element (access services via the Authority)