The Department for Education launched a consultation on 3 February 2025 seeking views on its proposed policy for school accountability and intervention. The accompanying consultation document (School accountability reform – school profiles, improvement and intervention) provides a clear insight on how future policy in this area is proposed to develop, covering the intervention regime when a school that requires ‘special measures’ or ‘significant improvement’, is deemed ‘stuck’, or requires other targeted intervention.
Combined with the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, the School accountability consultation clarifies some of the detail of how the new intervention regime will impact on schools and the roles and responsibilities of schools under the accountability framework, as well as covering proposals to introduce school profiles to enable parents and other stakeholders to view a range of information about a school in a single place.
It also includes information on the role of the Department’s new Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) teams.
Stakeholders have until 28 April 2025 to respond on the School accountability consultation.
Nicola Andrews provides a useful overview of the proposals outlined in the consultation. Read more here.
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