Regional Schools Commissioner East Midlands and Humber Jennifer

Regional Schools Commissioner East Midlands and Humber Jennifer Bexon-Smith The changing educational landscape

The White Paper ‘ Educational Excellence Everywhere’. • Supported autonomy to drive up standards for all • Puts the best leaders at the heart of the school system, with the support to thrive • Trust for the most effective education leaders • A system that responds to performance; – Extending the reach of the most successful – Acting promptly to reduce influence of those who aren’t delivering for our children 2

System Leadership at the Heart Teaching Schools Multi. Academy Trusts NLE’s, LLE’s SYSTEM LEADERSHIP Sponsors Governance 3

8 Regions 8 RSC’s 8 HTB’s § Give the best leaders greater influence over the direction of the academies system. § Regional decisions, centrally supported – create an efficient system of delivery informed by regional knowledge, supported centrally by existing teams. 4

Key Responsibilities of RSC September 2015 • Tackling educational underperformance and poor governance in open academies • Approving new academy provision • Approving applications from new sponsors to operate in the region • Taking action against poor performing sponsors • Formal decision on who is the most appropriate sponsor and the levels of funding, with advise from HTB members. • Approving significant changes to open academies and free schools • Responsible for developing plans for their contribution to the manifesto commitment for 500 new Free Schools 5

Implications of Education and Adoption Act intervention in maintained schools Extended powers commenced 18 April 16 • Ofsted inadequate – will be issued with a Directive Academy Order and be required to become a sponsored academy • Falls under the coasting schools definition – powers will not commence until later in the year – coasting definition takes effect, once 2016 performance data is published and the coasting levels are set in January 2017 • Schools eligible for causing concern warning notice: Education standards including below floor, breakdown in governance and management, safety of staff and pupils 6

Implications of Education and Adoption Actintervention in academies Inadequate Academies Extended powers commenced 18 April 2016 • • Any academy judged inadequate by Ofsted – From 18 April 2016 power to terminate the funding agreement – For any academy that had been judged inadequate before 18 April (before the commencement of the powers of the Education and Adoption Act), the RSC will be also able to terminate the funding agreement, at the RSCs’ discretion. The RSC will decide whether the trust has the capacity to bring about improvement or whether termination is appropriate. RSCs will have the discretion to decide whether rebrokerage is the best option. Coasting Academies • RSCs will have the discretion to decide whether a coasting school is demonstrating sufficient capacity to improve, taking into account any action the trust intends to take to remedy matters and/or any representations the trust makes. • RSCs will have the power to serve a termination warning notice to a coasting academy requiring the trust to take specified action to improve the school by a specified date. • Where an academy fails to comply with the termination warning notice, then the funding agreement for that academy may be terminated. This will allow RSCs to move a coasting academy to a new trust. 7

Full academisation • What will this look like? 8

The Jigsaw Teaching Schools Maintained Schools Single Academies Church Schools Multi-Academy Trust 9

Sheffield LA Data Converter Free Schools Sponsored (including 1619) UTCs Studio Schools Total number of mainstream LA Maintained state funded Schools academies (incl. mainstream FS, SS and UTCs) schools East Midlands & the Humber 571 227 12 4 4 818 1704 2, 522 Sheffield LA 35 28 1 1 0 65 97 162 Data source: Briefing tables June 2016 10

Multi-Academy Trusts Expert leadership and governance Career development and succession planning Continuous Improvement Student performance Financial Procurement – economies of scale Brand recognition/ customer confidence 11

Fully Academised System MAT MAT MAT 12

Size and growth • Average size of MATs – 10 -12 • Pupil numbers = 1500 • Longer term expectation average size 30 13

MAT Growth Programme • Checkpoint 1 : Starter – Established • Checkpoint 2 : Established – National • Checkpoint 3 : National - System Leader 14

Draft Checkpoint Model Checkpoint 1 Checkpoint 2 Checkpoint 3 People and leadership: Ensuring suitable financial and business expertise for school-based MATs (FD in place? ) and suitable school improvement expertise. Governance: Governance structure with clear lines of accountability and responsibility, replicated in practice as detailed in a scheme of delegation. School and trust leadership clearly understanding their role. People and Leadership: Does the trust have a ‘hero head’ that it is overly reliant on? Has the executive Headteacher made the transition to the MAT-CEO role? Staff recruitment and development Finance: Economies of scale, efficient procurement and capital funding Governance: Is it a scalable model? Role of Chair of trustees, right skills mix People and Leadership: Staff recruitment and development, succession planning, trust vision and ‘reputation management’ Governance: Functioning of regional hubs and central provision Finance: Corporate governance and financial management School improvement: Sustained school improvement following ‘quick wins’ 15

Sponsors where are they? Local Authority Barnsley Derbyshire Doncaster East Riding of Yorkshire Kingston upon Hull Leicestershire Lincolnshire North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire Rotherham Rutland Sheffield York Total 10 7 10 9 3 10 5 12 23 10 4 16 20 10 6 16 3 111 16

Continuing support for MAT’s Ø Aspire Programme Ø New MAT’s programme Ø Growing Trusts Ø MAT forum Ø Regional Toolkit 17

New programmes planned for Autumn v. Primary Roadshows v. SAT’s to MAT’s v. The Nuts & Bolts of becoming a Sponsor – hot house 24 hour event 18

Moving forward Current positon of school/academy – • A leader • A contributor • Requiring support • As a MAT are we securing the best possible outcomes for Our pupils? 19

Contact details EMH. RSC@education. gsi. gov. uk Further reading EMH Regional Toolkit: www. woldsteachingalliance. org. uk/mat-tool-kit www. gov. uk 20