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AAIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE
2007, BOURNEMOUTH
‘The Challenges Ahead’ Updates on DCSF and
National Strategies
Mike Viner
LEAD SRD, North Area &
Senior Regional Director
North East, NS
Key issues & developments 1
• The new Prime Minister and Ministerial team
leading coherence for children, schools
and families across Whitehall, with :
– A strong emphasis on securing improvements for
all children across all five ECM outcomes through
an integrated approach to service delivery for
children and families
– A strong emphasis on closing the gap between
levels of attainment for all children and the levels
achieved by the most disadvantaged
– A strong emphasis on using the greater
intervention powers available to LAs
Key issues & developments 2
• New statutory duties in relation to Early
Years
• New PSA indicators and the draft DCSF
Delivery Agreement – being developed.
Likely to focus on closing the gap, faster
progression for all children as well as overall
attainment.
• Promoting a shared and coordinated
approach to developing work on
assessment, progression and personalisation
and in particular the pilot project ‘Making
Good Progress’ and supporting confident
use of data at all levels
Key issues & developments 3
• Supporting education leaders to
understand and deliver on standards as
part of the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda
through high quality learning, teaching and
management
• Developing confident support for children
with special and additional needs
• Retaining a focus on key developments
such as SIPs and work on Behaviour and
Attendance (e.g. SEAL)
Key issues & developments 4
Working proactively with key partner
agencies (Ofsted, NCSL, TDA, SSAT,
QCA, BECTA) and social partners at
national and field force level
• to improve alignment towards raising
standards
• to re-orientate support for schools not
to schools
Key Features of the
Childcare Act
• Local authority duties to:
– improve outcomes for under 5s through
access to integrated early childhood
services
– secure sufficient childcare for children
(including the free offer) to allow parents
to work
– provide information to parents about
services for children up to 19
• Reformed and simplified regulatory
framework for early years and childcare
to raise quality and reduce bureaucracy
Childcare Act 2006
• Early Years Outcomes Duty on LAs
(backed by statutory targets and guidance) to
improve the 5 ECM outcomes for all 0-5s & reduce
inequalities between them
• LAs working with NHS and Jobcentre Plus partners
to deliver early childhood services which are
integrated to maximise access and benefits &
reach out to disadvantaged groups
Early Years Outcomes
Targets
Based on local authority’s FSP / EYFSP
results to:
– increase the percentage of young
children who achieve a total of at
least 78 points across the Foundation
Stage Profile, with at least 6 points
scored in each of the Personal, Social
and Emotional Development (PSED)
and Communication, Language and
Literacy (CLL) scales by x percentage
points to y% (to be negotiated)
Early Years Outcomes
Targets
Reduce inequality by improving
the average (mean) score of the
lowest 20 % of results so that the
gap between that average score
and the median, or middle score,
reduces by x percentage points (to
be negotiated)
Primary & ECM
• In primary – Every Child a Reader and
the development of Every Child
Counts
• Target ‘big hitter’ LAs
• ECM a ten year youth strategy and
Children’s Plan to be published in the
Autumn.
Intended outcomes of ECaR
By 2011
 Improved standards in reading at KS1 through the
combination of CLLD and a systematic layered
approach to intervention in Y1
 30,000 children to receive intensive 1 to 1 support with
reading by 2011
 15,000 children to receive small group intensive
support with reading by 2011
 Rigorous implementation of the ‘three waves’
intervention model in KS1
ECaR dependencies
• National training for LA Teacher Leaders by
accredited trainers at IoE:
(Training places : 2007-8 = 10, 2008-9 = 20,
2009-10 = 30)
• Structures of RR Quality Assurance and
International Standards
• Schools acceptance of part funding for RR
teacher
(£10k for at least 0.5 FTE) (London
weighting?)
Secondary
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Support for setting, not streaming
AfL (£150million)
SEAL
Extended schools with out of hours provision
in every school by 2010, including £265
million for disadvantaged pupils for two
hours a week in term time and 30 hours over
the holidays.
• Targeting under-achieving LAs
• Possibility of raising the school leaving age
to 18,
Secondary
• Developing 14-19 curriculum
• Reducing bureaucracy
• Less prescription in 11-16 curriculum and
one extra day INSET for all secondary
schools in 2007-08 to prepare for the new
curriculum.
• Extension of Teach First.
• OfSTED to raise the bar on behaviour,
including monitoring visits to schools where it
was deemed inadequate.
Secondary
• A renewed commitment to Trust
schools and Academies, reducing
the requirement for a sponsor to
provide £2million and removing VAT
on renting buildings to the wider
community.
• The formation of a National Council
for Educational Excellence.
The National Strategies 1
• Integrated Data Set and Raise on Line
• LA e-rooms
• Early Years – EYOD, FS profile and
EYFS framework
• CLLD and ECAR
• Primary Framework Literacy & Maths
• Secondary Framework revision for
core subjects and ICT
The National Strategies 2
• Primary and Secondary SEAL
• SIPs for Secondary, Primary and
Special Schools/Inclusion
• The big 4 ~ Literacy/English, Maths,
Early Years and Schools Causing
Concern
• NS LA RAG Dashboard and DCSF
Performance and Progress Chart
• Open and transparent dialogue
National Strategies
CONVERSIONS
The messages to LAs re LA and school level conversion:
• are being promoted through the standards
meetings and the data will be included in the data
packs
• will be given much more emphasis to
ensure RAs raise conversion issues in
their work with LAs
• will be highlighted in HOSI, Strategy
Manager and Consultant network
meetings
• will be emphasised in discussion of the
conversion data in IDS made available to LAs
Celebrations 1 KS2
% pupils achieving Level 4+
90
87
85
80
75
70
69
65
63
60
62
88
79
80
76
77
55
50
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
English
Maths
Science
Celebrations 2 KS2
No of schools below floor target
5,000
4,500
4,000
3,500
2,797
3,000
2,555
2,500
1,870
2,000
2137
1625
1,784
2,142
1,709
1,500
1,000
500
0
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
English
2004
Maths
2005
2006
2007
Prov
2008
Celebrations 3. GCSE
%5+A* -Cs 2001 - 2006
70
%5+ A* - C
60
%5+A* -Cs
50
40
2001
2002
2003
2004
Year
2005
2006
Celebrations 4 GCSE
GCSE floor target
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
In all schools at least
30% of pupils will
achieve 5+ A* - Cs
GCSEs or equivalent
by 2008
410
343
268
134
69*
Challenges 1
• Embedding use of data to monitor,
evaluate and plan at pupil, school
and LA level, including pupil tracking
• Better use of data and soft
intelligence to systematically riskassess and intervene early, including
use of LA E-rooms and IDS
• Build on the emphasis on “closing the
gap” within the EYOD
Challenges 2
• Use target setting guidance within
the new PSA 4 and 5 framework to
drive improvement for every child
• Work with NS to agree priorities and
align resources ~Standards Meetings
• Tailor and apply NS frameworks and
programmes consistently
• Use intervention powers to address
fundamentally weak schools
Challenges 3
• Sustainable strategies to address
School Improvement capacity in
context of CSR and Standards Fund
• Consider collaboration between LAs
• Maximise the impact of SIPs including
best match with needs of schools
• Brokering support for schools
Conclusion
• Closing the gap and raising the bar in
the new PSA context
• Intolerance of failure
• Working together with the National
Strategies to build a quality assured
culture of school improvement
• Two way process of support and
challenge
Thank you
mike.viner@
nationalstrategies.co.uk