Governor Partnership Meetings

1. Governor PartnershipMeetings Autumn Term 2010 Revised Feb 2011

2. “Watch out the Ombudsman’s About” - School Complaints Process Association Business Lincolnshire County Council Changes Devolving Budgets to Schools Education Bill SEN Update School Improvement Update Agenda

3. “Watch out the Ombudsman’s About” School Complaints Process NOW Cancelled

4. Tony McArdle, (21st Oct 2010) C Ex, LCC says: “I have put out for consultation a proposed new structure for LCC’s management structure that is capable of taking the authority through the next 4 years. “This structure will reflect what we need to do following the full consequences of the CSR “The proposed structure will reduce the number of senior managers by 37 %, taking £3.5m out of the management costs and moving this money into supporting front line services. “We have been well served by our existing management and I am therefore confident that we will, for the most part, be able to fill this new establishment from within the existing complement of management staff.  “I want us to continue to be a good, competitive employer. I do not believe the way forward is to ask everyone to take across the board pay cuts in order to save jobs. I believe we will get better results by having the best people – even if fewer – properly engaged, who are able to take this organisation forward in the new climate to deliver the best services possible to the people of Lincolnshire.” Lincolnshire County Council Proposednew management structure

5. The new management structure will replace that covered presently by all of those with post designations of Director, Assistant Director, Head of Service, and some related posts with similar reporting lines. With the exclusion of a small number of posts which are filled through the secondment in of managers from other organisations, and of those managers already subject to review due to the current proposals to restructure Adult Social Care (Operations), and the Council’s ICT support, this review therefore covers a total of 94 existing posts. This is replaced with a new structure which will contain in total 60 posts. The ‘new’ posts have been arrived at by anticipating likely changes to the Council’s operations, and reflect discussions on the Council’s ‘core offer’ with the Leader of the Council and Members of the Executive. They have also been constructed by bringing together functions which share some common elements, and with a high emphasis on generic management skills wherever possible. This is most notable in the areas of Children’s and Adult Services, the model having been applied successfully in Children’s Services for some time. Lincolnshire County Council Proposednew management structure

6. The proposals mean that Adult and Children’s Services will be all under one Director Peter Duxbury. Lincolnshire County Council New management structure In Children’s Services it is proposed that there will be a reduction in County Council Assistant Directors from 3 to 2; namely Debbie Barnes and Sue Westcott. Andy Breckon will remain as an Assistant Director and responsibility for the management of Additional Needs There will be a reduction of Heads of Service within Children’s Services from 11 to 9. This is a further reduction in the HoS structure which only came into operation on the 1st May 2010. It is proposed the new structures will be in place in January to enable other changes lower down in the structure to be put in place as soon asap. Children’s Services are planning cuts of approx 23% in the core Children’s Services Budget over the next 4 years – mostly in year 1- and 50% in terms of grants from 1st April 2011. This excludes the Dedicated Schools Budget (DSB).

7. 2,200 people covered by the consultation (2,400 FTEs) Proposed staffing reductions 818 people (607 FTE) Approx 1,100 people out of scope because of other consultations (1,000FTEs) Further consultations 1,500 (1,100 FTEs) covering most support functions Children’s Consultation document 515 pages 90 days consultation Lincolnshire County Council Consultation

8. Devolving Budgets To Schools Debbie Barnes

9. Education BillPublished 26th January 2011

10. SUMMARY and BACKGROUND The Education Bill is founded on the principles and proposals in the DfE Nov 2010 White Paper, The Importance of Teaching The Bill includes measures to increase the authority of teachers to discipline pupils and ensure good behaviour, with a general power to search pupils for items banned under the school’s rules, the ability to issue same-day detentions and pre-charge anonymity when faced with an allegation by a pupil of a criminal offence. The Bill will remove duties on schools and local authorities to give them greater freedom to decide how to fulfil their functions. The Academies programme will be extended, with Academies for 16 to 19 year olds and alternative provision Academies. The Bill will change school accountability, with more focused Ofsted inspections and wider powers to intervene in under-performing schools. Ofqual, the independent qualifications regulator, will be required to secure that the standards of English qualifications are comparable with qualifications awarded outside the UK. The Bill will abolish five Quangos, with functions ending and those continuing being discharged by the Secretary of State, who will be directly accountable to Parliament for them. The Bill also makes provision to give effect to proposals to increase college freedoms and make changes to the skills entitlements DBIS The Bill will enable the Government to introduce an entitlement to free early years provision for disadvantaged two year olds Two elements of the Browne Review on higher education funding Education Bill

11. Part 1: Early years provision This makes it possible to introduce free early years provision for children of two years of age from disadvantaged backgrounds. Education Bill • Part 2: Discipline • This extends the power of members of staff at schools and further education institutions to search pupils without their consent for an item that has been, or is likely to be, used to commit an offence or cause injury to the pupil or another, or damage property, and to search for items banned under the school rules. • It reforms the process for reviews of permanent exclusions. • It repeals the duty on schools to give 24 hours’ written notice of a detention to parents, and the duty on all schools to enter into a behaviour and attendance partnership with other schools in their area.

12. Part 3: School workforce This abolishes three arm’s length bodies – the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE), the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) and the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB). The Bill provides for the relevant functions of the GTCE and the TDA to be undertaken by the Secretary of State and where appropriate by Welsh Ministers, and gives the necessary powers to make schemes for the transfer of staff from these bodies to the Secretary of State. This Part also introduces restrictions on the public reporting of allegations made against teachers. Education Bill

13. Education Bill • Part 4: Qualifications and the Curriculum • This requires sampled schools to take part in international education surveys when directed by the Secretary of State. • It amends the governance structure of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) and revises its standards objective to include international comparison. • This abolishes a further arms length body, the Qualifications and • Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA). The Bill provides for the relevant functions of the QCDA to be transferred to the Secretary of State and gives the necessary powers to make schemes for the transfer of staff from this body to the Secretary of State. • It also amends legislation relating to provision of careers education and guidance and repeals the duty on local authorities, schools and governing bodies to secure access to the diploma entitlement for 16 to 18 year olds and pupils in the fourth key stage.

14. Education Bill • Part 5: Educational institutions: other provisions • It repeals certain duties on the governing bodies of maintained schools in England and repeals the duty on LAs to appoint a school improvement partner in each maintained school. • It also makes changes to the duties of LAs in relation to school admissions. In addition, the schools adjudicator will no longer be able to make modification to a school’s admissions arrangements in response to a complaint or a referral. • It introduces a cap on the amount LAs and the governing bodies of maintained schools in England are allowed to charge for the provision of school meals, milk etc. • It also makes changes to the arrangements for the establishment of new schools by introducing a presumption that when LAs set up new schools they will be Academies (including free schools). • It makes changes to the composition of school governing bodies and, with the related clause in Part 6, makes it possible for one or more, but not all, of the schools in a federation to become an Academy without first having to go through the statutory process to leave the federation. • It makes provision for the Secretary of State to direct a LA to issue a warning notice to a school on grounds of performance or safety concerns, and extends the Secretary of State's power to close schools to all schools eligible for intervention, rather than (as at present) only those deemed by Ofsted to be in need of special measures.

15. Education Bill • Part 5: Educational institutions: other provisions continued • It provides for changes to the inspections framework for schools, and for the exemption of certain categories of school and further education institution from routine inspection by HMI, Ofsted. Where a school or further education institution asks Ofsted to carry out an inspection in circumstances where such an inspection is not required, and Ofsted agrees to do so, this Part allows the Chief Inspector to charge the school for the cost of carrying out that inspection. It also makes changes to the inspection of boarding provision. • It repeals the power for parents to make complaints about schools to the Local Commissioner. • It contains measures on school finance, and allows nursery schools (and schools with nursery classes) to charge for early years provision that is not funded by the LA. It enables the Secretary of State to issue directed revisions to LA schemes for financing schools and requires the Secretary of State to consult LAs and others before a direction is given. It also allows the governing bodies of maintained schools to fund the costs of premature retirement and dismissal of community staff from their budget shares. • It repeals and amends a range of duties placed on further education corporations and repeals the change of the name of pupil referral units to short stay schools.

16. Education Bill • Part 6: Academies • This amends Academies legislation. It allows the establishment of 16 to 19 Academies and alternative provision Academies and removes the requirement for Academies to have a specialism. • It makes some changes to the consultation requirements for the setting up of an Academy, and to the way a school in a federation becomes an Academy. • This protects the existing position in relation to discrimination in employment practices for faith schools which convert to become Academies, but makes provision for this to be changed (by order of the Secretary of State) after conversion. • This makes changes to the legislation relating to school land, to increase the Secretary of State's ability to make land available for free schools. • It allows for schools adjudicators to consider and determine objections to Academies’ admission arrangements

17. Education Bill • Part 7: Post-16 education and training • This abolishes a further arm’s length body, the Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA); it provides for the relevant functions of the YPLA to be transferred to the Secretary of State, and gives the necessary powers to make schemes for the transfer of staff from this body to the Secretary of State. • It replaces the duty on the Chief Executive of Skills Funding to secure an apprenticeship place for certain young people with a duty to fund apprenticeship • training (through securing the provision of proper facilities) for certain groups who have secured an apprenticeship place. It makes changes to the law relating to the issue of apprenticeship certificates. • It makes changes to the skills entitlements. • It gives a power to the Secretary of State to direct the Chief Executive of Skills Funding to consult with specified people or descriptions of persons on matters associated with the performance of the Chief Executive’s functions. • It retains the commencement of raising the participation age legislation in 2013 (to age 17) and 2015 (to age 18) whilst removing the requirement to commence enforcement procedures on young people, parents and employers in relation to raising the participation age on a certain date.

18. Education Bill • Part 8: Student finance • This includes measures that form part of a package of higher education reforms announced in an oral statement in the House of Commons on 3 November 20101 and later refined in a written statement on 8 December 2010,2 in response to the Browne Review. • It will apply the tuition fees cap for full-time courses on a pro rata basis to part-time courses, and increases the cap on the interest rates that can be charged on new student loans.

19. Implication of Public Spending Review and its Impact

20. Public Spending Review

21. Public Spending Review

22. Public Spending Review

23. The schools budget will increase in real terms in each year of the Spending Review period. But economies in other areas mean that there will be a total real reduction in Departmental resource spending of 3% by 2014-15. Following on from the decision to halt Building Schools for the Future (BSF), capital spending will be reduced by 60% in real terms by 2014-15. The average annual capital budget over the period will be higher than the average annual capital budget in the 1997-98 to 2004-05 period. £ Billions  2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Resource DEL1 50.8 51.2 52.1 52.9 53.9(£2.5B PP) Capital DEL 7.6  4.9  4.2  3.3  3.4 Total DEL 58.4 56.1 56.3 56.2 57.2 1 In this table, Resource DEL excludes depreciation Capital allocation from the DfE is £22M for next year Public Spending Review

24. Funding for the schools budget will increase by £3.6 billion in cash terms by the end of the Spending Review period – this is a 0.1 per cent increase in real terms in each year. This increase will cover demographic pressures from rising pupil numbers and a new £2.5 billion pupil premium by the end of the period to support the educational development of disadvantaged pupils. This funding will be accompanied by greater freedoms and flexibility for teachers and schools. We have protected the same baseline for schools as at the Pre-Budget Report in 2009. Therefore, the schools baseline will include funds allocated for: One to one tuition 'Every child programmes' such as Every Child a Reader Extended schools School lunch grant School Standards Grant School Development Grant Specialist schools grant Ethnic Minority Achievement grant The National Strategies’ budgets that were allocated to schools Dedicated Schools Grant Academies running costs DfE 26/10/10 Public Spending Review

25. DfE have simplified the funding system by mainstreaming grants into the DSG on the same per-pupil distribution as this year. 2011-12 Guaranteed Units of Funding (GUFs) are therefore the sum of 2010-11 GUFs and the per-pupil grant allocations.  LAs to work with their schools forums to produce 2011-12 budgets for their maintained schools, including resources from grants mainstreamed into DSG.  LAs will be required to take account of the previous level of these grants in constructing their settlement for schools, preventing turbulence for those schools who have previously received funding through grants that we are mainstreaming. Overall schools budget before the addition of the pupil premium will stay at the same level per pupil, but actual level of budget for each individual school will vary. It will depend on local decisions about how best to meet needs. This does mean that some individual schools may see cash cuts in their budgets – either because they have fewer pupils or because changes are made within LAs to the distribution of funding.  Minimum funding guarantee – have set it so that no school will see a reduction compared with its 2010-11 budget (excluding sixth form funding) of more than 1.5 per cent per pupil before the pupil premium is applied.  The guarantee applies to a school’s overall 2010-11 budget including grants that have been mainstreamed into DSG. Schools Post 16 reduced by £280 per student. School Budgets 2011/12

26. Pupil premium will be £625m in 2011-12, rising each year until 2014-15 when it will be worth £2.5bn. The PP will target extra money at pupils from deprived backgrounds – pupils we know underachieve compared to their non-deprived peers – in order to support them in reaching their potential. Pupil premium will be £430 per pupil this year and will be the same for every deprived pupil, no matter where they live. Pupil premium is in addition to the underlying schools budget, which will be at the same cash-per-pupil level for 2011-12 as this year. This means there will be an additional £430 for every child known to be eligible for free school meals in any school from next year.  The additional funding will be passed straight to schools who will have freedom to employ the strategies that they know will support their pupils to increase their attainment. Pupil Premiums Looked-after children face additional barriers to reaching their potential and so these pupils too will receive a premium of £430. The premium for looked-after children will rise in subsequent years, in line with the premium for deprived pupils. Premium for the children of armed services personnel. For Service children the focus of expenditure from the premium should be on pastoral support. Today premium will be £200 in 2011-12.

27. Free school meals data January 2010

28. Other Changes: The PE and Sports Strategy to cease 31st March 2011 – now expected to be embedded and all schools to continue providing 2 hours of sport, with great emphasis on competitive sport. Specialist Schools funding will be mainstreamed from 31st March 2011 through the DSG. No need to re-designate as specialist. Funding for SSAT and YST removed. School Support Staff Negotiating Body will not go ahead 28th Oct Ofsted Budget reduced from £186 million to £134 million The following quangos TDA; CWDC; NCLSCS; YPLA & PFS are under consideration Introduction of the Early Years Single Funding Formula – April 2011 New Floor Standards from January 2011 onwards Public Spending Review

29. Public Spending Review LCC Budget Preparation: The mass of changes in the funding and with little current guidance we feel it will be very challenging for us to set the budget and get it to you before mid March. We don’t know if we will have the capacity to make transition arrangements in some of the major changes which have already been highlighted. School Planning for changes: We recommend you start modelling now with cuts of different percentages; just setting some options because you may need to work quickly when you have your budget. Timing: Think 17 months financial planning Deficit Budgets: Do not plan for deficits are we see the challenges getting greater rather than less in the next few years

30. SEN Update on 3 Key Strands of Work Paul Snook/ Gary Nixon

31. REVIEW AND RECONFIGURATION OF SPECIAL SCHOOLS AND MAINSTREAM UNIT PROVISION • Review has taken place over a period of 8 months and has included consultative groups, consultation with parents, governors schools, officers and members as part of the process. • Review report shared with all schools and made available to parents and carers in advance of the Scrutiny Committee and the County Council Executive. • Formal consultation will take place to seek the views of stakeholders with regards to the Review Report recommendations. • Details as it affects localities will be consulted upon in the locality.

32. 13 KEY RECOMMENDATIONSIDENTIFIED UNDER THE HEADINGS OF LOCALISATION AND INCLUSION CLEAR THEMES: • Move to a localising provision into the 7 district councils - provision catering for a • wider range of need than is currently the case. • Improve opportunities for CYP to have their needs met in mainstream settings. • Partnership services to meet the needs of CYP in their localities. • Capitalise on collaboration to secure the best possible outcomes for CYP in their • localities.

33. SPECIAL SCHOOL AND MAINSTREAM UNIT FUNDING • Recognition that the present formula no longer reflects the needs of pupils and/ or schools. • High level of consultation and negotiation throughout the process. • Moving to a simplified formula that gives a consistency of funding to schools.. • A formula that is in response to the changing needs of schools and CYP. • Within the existing budget… there is no more money. • Implementation in 2011…potential for tapered protection.

34. REVIEW OF THE DELEGATED FORMULA FOR SEN PROVISION IN MAINSTREAM SCHOOLS • Removing banding 1-5 and allocating the SEN budget to schools via a formula. • Formula is a mix of free school meals/indices of deprivation (20%) and • attainment measures at the end of Key Stages 1 and 2 (80%). • Introduced from this year but fully protected. • Drafting of a Monitoring and Accountability Framework. • More work to be done prior to full implementation in 2011.

35. Formula Funding for nursery schools. • Applying the formula to special schools. • Applying the formula to Yrs 12 and Yrs 13 pupils. • The inclusion of a Year 4 reading test. • Pupils with no attainment data. • Funding of medical cases.

36. Bands 6 – 8 addressing the double funding for these pupils. • Prevention of band drift. • Pupils where attainment is not a factor. • Use of subjective data in primary schools. • Funding for SEN over time. • Transitional arrangements.

37. School Improvement Update Ofsted and SEF Attendance Exclusions Attainment – new requirements