EPHA Summer Briefings Clare Kershaw Director for Commissioning

EPHA Summer Briefings Clare Kershaw Director for Commissioning Education and Lifelong Learning

Educational Excellence Everywhere Seven key elements 1. Great teaching – improving the standard of teaching 2. Great leaders running schools – ensuring schools have stronger leadership and governance 3. A schools-led system with empowered parents – freeing schools from local authorities 4. A focus on school improvement – led by schools, supported by schools, rather than by local authorities 5. High expectations and a world-leading curriculum – building on the recent reforms to GCSEs 6. Fair but stretching accountability 7. Fair funding – introducing a new national funding formula to remove the huge disparities in funding per pupil and per school in different parts of the country The aim is for every school to be an academy within a Multi Academy Trust (MAT). 2

Educational Excellence Everywhere Revised Responsibilities for the LA a. Ensuring every child has a school place, including sufficient school, special school and alternative provision places to meet demand. Local authorities will also work with schools and parents in developing local school transport policies, giving schools the opportunity to provide school transport services where that makes sense locally; and take a lead in crisis management and emergency planning b. Ensuring the needs of vulnerable pupils are met – this covers SEND duties, duties to provide alternative provision which schools can commission, the statutory role of the Head of the Virtual School and a proposed consultation to consider if this should be extended to children who leave care post adoption, children educated at home and children missing education. c. Acting as champions for all parents and families – support families to navigate the system through a continuing role in admissions, SEND, championing high standards and where necessary call for action from the Regional Schools Commissioner. The paper proposes considering if local authorities should co-ordinate all in-year admissions. 3

Educational Excellence Everywhere • • • Academy Conversion and critical mass / successful authorities National Funding Formula Parent Governors Withdrawal of Education Services Grant (ESG) Role of Regional School Commissioners (RSC) Property and land transfers Home to school transport SEND Pupil Place Planning 4

Preventing underperformance and helping schools go from good to great • Shifting responsibility for school improvement - enable the best leaders to play a wider role - responsibility transferred for school improvement from LAs to best school and system leaders to spread expertise and best practice • National coverage and increased impact of system leaders • Improve how we designate teaching schools and NLEs by introducing a more sophisticated approach based on timely and accurate data rather than just on Ofsted judgements • Provide targeted funding for system leaders to build capacity through school-to-school support and for RSCs to intervene in failing and coasting schools

Standards and Excellence Service • - Informed challenge and support for every school by a named SEC against an agreed RAG rating - Undertaking Headteacher PMR where required - Analysing data – in school and published (ROL, FFT) Support for Headteachers / Headteacher recruitment and support for new headteachers - Analysing progress of Pupil Premium Children - Support for staff - Safeguarding reviews - Preventing Ofsted decline / Support during - Critical incidences Ofsted Inspection - Partnership support (LDGs, Consortium - Learning Walks - Observing Teaching - Book Scrutiny - Statutory Assessment and moderation Meetings and SLIS) - complaints - External validation through reviews - Supporting SEF writing / school action plans - Supporting Governors on Improvement Boards and Strategic Intervention Boards 6 Support for structural solutions, including academy conversion and amalgamation processes - Investigating safeguarding and other Ofsted - Sharing best practice - Strategic development - Brokering support from TSAs etc.

Other Core services – ESG/ECC funded • Core support for Governors excluding training and RAG rating • Governance reviews • Media Support • Infolink • School Communications • Data and intelligence • Safeguarding • EMTAS • Working for Essex, workforce census and teaching awards

DSG • • • • 8 Subscription to EPHA Specialist teachers Behaviour support Conferences – Primary Heads, PPG, Schools in intervention Peer Review and School Lead Improvement (as part of SCC budget) SACRE Assessment of Key Stage 1 and 2 tests Supporting Governors on IBs and SIBs School Broadband Growth Fund Termination Costs School Meals Family Solutions Capital Maintenance contribution PFI

Traded Services • • • Training (EES) Health & Safety Educational Visits Legal Services HR Governor Services Music Staff Recruitment (administration) School Admission Appeals Outdoor Education Utilities Admissions Appeals 9

Developments in ways of working in 2016/17 for the Standards and Excellence Team • Team will be maintained for 2016/17 • Align work with SLIS partnerships - Allocated number of days per cluster/partnership of schools based on RAG rating - Discussion with cluster/lead headteachers on use of days to support & challenge schools within the cluster/partnership - Wherever possible current SEC linked to schools will remain the same - Greater flexibility in use of SEC visit time across the cluster/partnership • All current core services remain unchanged eg Media, data Intelligence • On going discussions of ways of working from 2017

Truancy Penalty Notices • Isle of White Council ‘v’ Platt • High Court ruled that 90% attendance was not irregular when a family holiday was taken • Implications for local authorities and schools • We require national guidance on the matter of school attendance 11

SEND Transformation Plan • 5 work streams – EHC Plans – SEN provision – Joint Commissioning – School-led SEND – Preparing for adulthood • Cross cutting – The Local Offer – Co-production 12

Welfare reforms • Universal Credit - one single monthly payment - April 2016 • Benefit Cap – total benefit capped at £ 500 per week for families and £ 350 for individuals – Includes housing benefit, child benefit, carers allowance, income support and child tax credit – 348 families affected, 40 losing between £ 400 - £ 600 per month and 77 between £ 200 and £ 400 • Size Criteria – spare bedroom tax • Tax Credits – restrictions for larger families from 2017 • Social Fund – essential living fund • Ongoing changes • Further work to identify the most vulnerable families affected in conjunction with districts 13