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Summer 2012. Governor Partnership. Agenda. Education Services in Lincolnshire. CfBT Education Services. CfBT has been contracted to provide almost all education services using mainly existing LCC staff through to the end of its current contract in 2017
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Summer 2012 Governor Partnership
CfBT Education Services CfBT has been contracted to provide almost all education services using mainly existing LCC staff through to the end of its current contract in 2017 What is the principal objective of this decision? To secure high quality services to all maintained schools and those academies who wish to purchase them. In order to maintain the staff and their expertise in Lincolnshire CfBT will also be seeking to develop business opportunities outside Lincolnshire What is the context in which we will be working in the coming years? Less central funding to provide the services to schools, thus the need to create services of a quality that you feel meet your needs and are good value for money
CfBT Education Services Our first task is to look at what we currently do for maintained schools and find out if that is what is needed to improve a child’s performance and well being. There will be changes but these will need time and consultation in many areas to ensure we focus the limited resources key to our early intervention and preventative strategy, and then to determine the services we may sell to you are what you want and need In general the costs to academies of a service sold to a maintained school will be an additional 10%, and a service which is available free to all maintained schools will be costed specifically for academies – you will be able to get discounts for bulk purchasing, like the PDA In April 2013 we will be offering across all the purchased services a money back plus 10% guarantee. CfBT has recently been awarded ISO 9001 and all our services will need to meet those standards
CfBT Education Services The teaching and learning support service (STAPS) run by Additional Needs and the tuition provided by the Music service will continue with its current mode of working with you, although CfBT will be managing contracts The LCC traded Education Services will all be sold to you with a very simple purchase order in the form of a contract and then invoiced. This is to meet LCC contract requirements We will be able to publish the costs very shortly and we hope to appoint by September a single contact to ensure you get the services that you want and need. That person will be responsible for both the traded and no-cost services we provide
CfBT Education Services • CfBT will be appointing shortly a new Director to lead the services • There will be at least 3 ADs appointed with responsibility for the 3 key areas of work: • Schools and College Performance • Children and Young People Services • Participation and Learning and Skills • The current Director will be working part-time to support these changes
Education Funding Announcement: School Funding Reform: Next steps towards a fairer system • Background • The Secretary of State’s announcement was made on 26 March 2012 • In anticipation of some of these proposals, the Local Authority simplified the local funding formula in April 2012 • Key Changes • The review of how the Local Authority’s are funded for schools has been deferred until the net spending period. However, the government plans to simplify the way that Local Authority’s distribute funds to schools from 2012/14 • Only ten formula factors will be permitted from April 2013
The ten steps are: 1) A basic per-pupil entitlement – which allows a single unit for primary aged pupils and either a single unit for secondary pupils or a single unit for each of Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 42) Deprivation measured by FSM and/or the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI)3) Looked after children4) Low cost - high incidence SEN5) English as an additional language (EAL) for 3 years only after the pupil enters the compulsory school system6) A lump sum of limited size. The government intends to set an upper limit for the block allocation and has indicated that this may fall between £0.100m and £0.150m7) Split sites8) Rates9) Private finance initiative (PFI) contracts10) For the 5 local authorities who have some but not all of their schools within the London fringe area, flexibility to reflect the higher teacher cost in these schools
Education Funding Announcement: School Funding Reform: Next steps towards a fairer system • Stability in funding remains a government priority and so the Minimum Funding Guarantee has been confirmed at minus 1.5% for both 2013/14 and 2014/15 • The government expects LA’s to delegate from the DSG as many services and as much funding as possible to schools • However, funding can be retained: • - Where maintained schools agree to pool their budgets • - For historical commitments • - For statutory functions • A new government grant may be created to fund Academies non-DSG LACSEG • The funding of Academies will continue to be based on the LA’s local funding formula • Early Years funding will be simplified • There will be a new methodology for the funding of higher needs pupils, including for special schools • The census used for calculating school funding will move from January to October
IT COULDN’T HAPPEN AT THIS SCHOOL Safeguarding Children & Young People Education Settings Team 2012
North Somerset Serious Case Review Teacher worked in the school for 15 years and held a number of senior roles 30 recorded incidents of inappropriate or unprofessional conduct between 1999 and 2010 Only 11 of these were reported formally within the school before the Serious Case Review
Staff had a variety of concerns about the teacher • Staff spoke to the teacher about his inappropriate behaviour • Staff took steps to ensure that pupils who they believed the teacher would target were allocated to other classes
The response by senior leadership team to the concerns raised was inadequate – allegations were not managed properly • Record keeping of allegations was inadequate • The teacher’s behaviour showed clear indications of grooming but this was not recognised • Ofsted judged the care that pupils received to be outstanding in 2006
ASSURED SAFEGUARDING • Self assessment framework • Assists school leaders in assuring themselves that the systems, procedures etc are working as effectively as possible • Workshops in the Autumn term
Attendance not Absence • Charlie Taylor Review - April 2012 (Government’s expert adviser on behaviour) 10 recommendations summarised as: • - Language • - Early intervention – vulnerable and early age • - Family holidays • - Data and targets http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/pupilsupport/behaviour/a00208164/taylor-review
Lincolnshire Context • Children in Lincolnshire attend school as often as their peers nationally • Like the national picture greater attendance is seen in our primary schools (94.9%) when compared to our secondary schools (93.6%) • Attendance in both phases is increasing and the gap between them is shrinking • Persistent absence in secondary is twice that in primary • In light of Taylor’s review we are reviewing our strategy for attendance
Areas to focus on • Ethos and attitudes • Early years intervention • Corrective intervention • Family holiday • Geographical differences • Legal processes and timescales • Falling through the gaps
Exclusions from schools and Pupil Referral Units from September 2012 • All schools must have regard to the European Convention of Human Rights (rational, reasonable, fair and proportionate) • Parents have the right to have a permanent exclusion reviewed by an Independent Review Panel • The Independent Review Panel will not have the power to reinstate, only to ‘Review’ • Parents will also have a right to request that a SEN expert attend an Independent Review Panel meeting, regardless of whether the school recognises that their child has SEN (schools must make parents aware of this in writing)
Exclusions from schools and Pupil Referral Units from September 2012 • Having reviewed the decision of the governing body, the Independent Review Panel may reach a decision to ‘quash’ the exclusion; they can only request that the governing body reconsider. If after reconsideration the governing body decides not to reinstate, the panel may direct the Local Authority to make an adjustment of the maintained school’s budget share. Any such financial readjustment is fixed at £4,000.00 • Academies must make arrangements to transfer the equivalent amount of funding to the Local Authority when directed to do so by an Independent Review Panel The above are the significant points of the revised guidance, full governor training is recommended
Responses to the Ofstedconsultation ‘A good education for all’ In future: • Require ‘outstanding’ schools to have ‘outstanding’ teaching • However, schools currently judged ‘outstanding’ will be exempt from inspection (8th June 2012) • Define an acceptable standard of education as being ‘good’ • Replace the current ‘satisfactory’ judgement with ‘requires improvement’ where schools are not inadequate but are not yet providing a good standard of education • Replace the ‘notice to improve’ category with ‘serious weaknesses’ • Now 5 possible outcomes: • Outstanding • Good • Requires Improvement • Serious Weaknesses • Special Measures
Introduce earlier full re-inspection of schools judged as ‘requires improvement’ - these will now be inspected every two years • Usually limit the number of times schools can be deemed to ‘require improvement’ to two consecutive inspections before they are judged ‘inadequate’ and deemed to require ‘special measures’ • Shorten the notice given of an inspection • Request that schools provide anonymised information of the outcomes of the most recent performance management of all teachers
Notes: • Outstanding schools will be subject to annual risk assessments • This will generally be from 3 years after the inspection unless the Headteacher changes. There will be no routine inspection unless there is evidence of decline or attainment gap widens • Academies will retain the Ofsted judgment prior to conversion unless they have been inspected since • This does not apply to special schools
Changes to Attainment and Achievement Tables (AAT) & RAISEonline DfE’s Long Term Vision • More interactive performance tables and RAISEonline so that the two systems can eventually be merged • Differing levels of access dependant upon role (i.e different views for LA, school, parent, Ofsted, etc)
Gap Measures Changes to Attainment and Achievement Tables (AAT) & RAISEonline • Gap Measures will incorporate the ever6FSM rule (i.e. measuring outcomes for pupils who have ever been eligible for FSM in the previous 6 years) • Attainment/Progress broken down by Gender and EAL at KS2 • Attainment/Progress on non-mobile pupils (for KS4, this will be pupils who remained in same school for years 5 and 6)
Changes to RAISEonline • At KS2 L6 test results will be included in attainment and progress measures • An overall KS2 English level will be published • Floor standards measure will include overall English - explanation of how to be published soon(!) • Y1 Phonics to be included in RAISEonline
It is intended that RAISEonline will show separate reading and writing results, as well as English levels for each school, from the Autumn term • It is solely the teacher assessment in writing (and not test results) that will be published in the Performance Tables and contribute towards overall English levels
How do schools calculate an overall Key Stage 2 English level derived from test outcomes this year? • There is no requirement for schools to use test outcomes to calculate overall Key Stage 2 English levels for their children • The Department intends to publish overall English results derived from test outcomes in the Performance Tables alongside schools’ reading and writing results. The formula the Department will use is published on its website
Schools will not receive an overall English level derived from test outcomes for each child before the end of the Summer term. This is a change to the guidance provided in Section 10.1 of the Key Stage 2 assessment and reporting arrangements
Why aren’t you calculating an overall English level for each child and reporting this by the end of the summer as in previous years? • Lord Bew’s independent review recognised the value of reading and writing being reported separately, so that schools can present a more rounded picture of their performance in English. Lord Bew’s review argued that this would be more useful to parents and secondary schools
Can I calculate an overall English level myself and report this to parents? • Yes. When the 2012 level thresholds are published on Tuesday 10th July, schools will be able to use the formula to calculate overall English levels and report this to parents and receiving secondary schools, if they wish.
Changes to the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements • Child protection • Adults’ behaviour • ICT • Use of mobile phones and cameras • Staff supervision • Premises • Risk assessments
Changes to the Learning and Development Requirements • Areas of Learning and Development 3 Prime Areas and 4 Specific Areas • Play Providers will be responsible for ongoing judgements about the balance between activities led by children and activities led or guided by adults. Practitioners must consider children’s interests and stage of development • Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning
Changes to Assessment Requirements Early learning goals and assessment: • Instead of 69 goals, there will now be 17 • Instead of the current set of judgements against 117 scale-points, teachers will make judgements against the 17 goals • For each goal, teachers determine whether children are meeting ‘expected’ levels, are ‘exceeding’ them, or are below the expected level - ‘emerging’
“To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.” - Unknown “The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.” - George Jessel “The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Unknown
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” - Oscar Wilde “Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut-up.” – Unknown
News • Mobile Phones • Bibles • Teaching agency • Teachers’ pay • Information for schools to publish
Leadership • Governance • NCSL • Teaching Schools • Teacher Appraisal • Ontario • Vetting and Barring Scheme
Curriculum • Music • Maths • ICT • Assessment • National Curriculum
