children’s services, education and skills scrutiny...
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Children’s Services, Education
and Skills Scrutiny Board
25 May 2016
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National Funding Reforms
• Schools National Funding Formula
• High Needs Funding Formula
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Based on 7 Principles
• A funding system that supports opportunity
• A funding system that is fair
• A funding system that is efficient
• A funding system that gets funding straight to
schools
• A funding system that is transparent
• A funding system that is simple
• A funding system that is predictable
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Headlines on NFF• By the end of 2020, every school in England will be an
academy or free school – or be in the process of
becoming one by 2022. This is likely to be done
through Multi Academy Trusts
• National Funding Formula (NFF) from April 2017 - with
two years of transition
• It will be based on the following factors:
�Per-pupil element
�Additional Needs
�School costs elements
�Geographic costs
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Headlines on NFF cont""
• It will be a ‘hard’ formula - the Government will fund every school
directly and LAs will have no role in this
• The Government propose 4 Dedicated Schools Grant funding
Blocks:
� Schools – funding for schools calculated by the National Funding
Formula
� High Needs – SEND, Alternative Provision and Pupil Support
Services
� Early Years Block
� Central Services Block – DSG central functions and statutory
duties formerly funded by Education Services Grant (ESG)
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Headlines on NFF cont""
• We will continue to undertake a range of service and
statutory functions, e.g. Admissions, asset management,
SEND, etc
• No role for LA’s in respect of school improvement - from
September 2017 the government will remove all of this
funding from LA’s (which comes via ESG)
• LA will not be able to charge any non-statutory functions
or services to the Dedicated Schools Grant, nor will we
be able to top-slice school budgets
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Headlines on NFF cont"""
• Solihull will lose £1.8m of ESG from September
2017. This funds both children’s and corporate
services
• Also at risk - up to £2.25m of centrally funded
items from the DSG from April 2017, depending
on what exceptions the DFE formally approve
• DFE data capturing exercise to ascertain levels
and types of spend on central services
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High Level Concerns • DfE have provided no evidence that a NFF
based on 14 factors can adequately recognise
the context of schools in particular areas
• Proposals are being introduced in a very tight
timeframe. Until stage 2 consultation is received,
it is not possible to judge whether the proposals
reflect the stated principles
• The inability to move funds between the high
needs block and schools block may impede
inclusive practice
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The White Paper – Achieving
Excellence for All
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Key Messages
• Launched in March 2016
• Sets out plans for the next five years
• Is based on five guiding principles:
�Children and young people first
�High expectations for every child
�Outcomes not methods
�Supported autonomy
�Responsive to need and performance
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Every school to become an academy• Every school to become an academy by 2022
• Schools expected to form or join MATs and a MAT
Support Fund will be established to enable groups of
schools to join together
• New powers to direct schools to become academies in
LA areas which are underperforming or have not started
the process of conversion
• Land held by the authority in respect of community
schools will transfer to Secretary of State who will then
grant a lease to Academy Trusts
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But"..The government has u- turned on the compulsory
academisation of all schools, but the DFE
• will continue to require underperforming schools to
convert to academy status,
• will support schools rated as ‘good’ by Ofsted to
convert
• trigger conversion of all schools in areas where a
“critical mass” have already become academies
• force conversion where councils “consistently fail to
meet a minimum performance threshold across its
schools”
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Free Schools and UTCs
• 500 Free Schools and UTCs will be
opened by 2020
• New measures that will enable Secretary
of State to require the use of local
authority land for new Free Schools
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Parents and Pupils
• Government plans to launch new portal for parents in
2017 to help them navigate school system
• New performance tables website launched in March
2016
• Government will make it simpler for parents to escalate
complaints to the DfE
• Parents may be able to petition RSC for their child’s
school to move to a different MAT where there is
underperformance
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Local Authorities
In the short term LAs will have responsibility
for:
� Employment of staff in community schools
� Ownership and asset management of school
buildings
� Responsibilities relating to Governance
� School organisation
� Curriculum of maintained schools
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Local Authorities cont""
In future, LA education duties will focus on:
�Ensuring every child has a school place
�Ensuring the needs of vulnerable pupils are met
�Acting as champions for all parents and families
N.B. Review of local authorities’ functions and
responsibilities including the roles of Director of
Children’s Services and Lead Member for Children
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Ensuring the needs of vulnerable learners
are met
• Identifying, assessing and making provision for
children with SEND or with Looked After status
• Promoting school attendance
• Tackling persistent absences
• Lead on safeguarding responsibilities for all
children excluded or otherwise unable to attend
mainstream schools eg educated at home
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Pupil Premium
• Pupil Premium will continue to be paid alongside the
national funding formula for schools and on top of the
funding for disadvantaged children and disadvantaged
areas
• Looked after children / those who have been adopted
from care or left care under special guardianship, will
continue to receive pupil premium plus funding
• Funding to be managed by Virtual School Head
• Schools and VSH to adopt evidence based strategies
drawing on EEF
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Ensuring every child has a school place
• Ensuring sufficient school, special school and AP places
to meet local demand
• Working with schools and parents in developing local
transport policies
• Local Authorities to co-ordinate in-year admissions and
the independent admission appeals function
• Taking the lead in crisis management and emergency
planning
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Acting as champions for parents and
families
• Listening to and promoting the needs of parents, children
and the local community
• Supporting parents to navigate the admissions system,
SEND arrangements and engaging them in designing
SEND policies
• Championing high standards locally for all pupils
• Encouraging high performers to establish new school
places
• Calling for action from the RSC to tackle
underperformance
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And"""
• Oversight of testing arrangements
• Tackling any safety, welfare or extremism
concerns
• Encouraging top performing MATs to set
up new schools
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Governance
• Academy Trusts will no longer be required to reserve
places for elected parents on Governing Bodies
• Government will establish a database of everyone
involved in governance and “unsuitable individuals” will
be barred from being Governors
• A new competency framework defining core skills and
knowledge needed for governance will be developed
• Governing Bodies will be expected to fill skills gaps
through training and recruitment
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A Self Improving System
• From September 2017, school improvement funding will
be routed through Teaching Schools (300 more) and
NLEs (another 800)
• Innovation fund for RSCs to commission support for
failing and coasting schools
• Engagement of MATs, sponsors, academies diocese
and wider schools sector to ensure legal framework for
academies is fit for purpose
• Secretary of State will be responsible for running an
academy if a Trust stops operating it at short notice
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Alternative Provision
• Role of mainstream schools in supporting AP providers
to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum and high
quality teaching by sharing subject specialists and
facilities
• Schools responsible for budgets from which AP is
funded
• Schools responsible for commissioning high quality
provision and accountable for education outcomes of
excluded and other pupils on AP programmes
• LAs will ensure sufficiency of AP including new,
innovative provision through Free Schools
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Teaching and Curriculum
• QTS to be replaced with stronger, more challenging
accreditation
• Reform of the National College for Teaching and
Leadership
• Establishment of College for Teaching run by teachers
• Knowledge-based curriculum. National Curriculum will
be a benchmark
• Development of Action Plan for improving PSHE
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Inspection
• Government will work with Ofsted to ensure the
Inspection regime is fair, increasingly proportionate and
focused on underperformance
• Introduction of an “improvement period” of 30 months to
allow leaders to put in train sustainable improvement
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Accountability
• New accountability measures for MATS with separate
performance tables
• Performance data at individual school level
• Publication of improved and accessible information to
inform school choice and help parents, governing boards
and other users of data to hold schools to account
• RSCs will commission support and intervention for
underperforming schools
• A clearer process for how the local community can raise
concerns and engage with RSCs
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Strong Financial Health and Efficiency
Government will support schools by:
• Defining a series of financial health check offers for
schools and suppliers who can provide them
• Publishing a school procurement strategy
• Developing a package of support on workforce
efficiency, including training for governing boards and
training for school leaders on curriculum based financial
planning
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Making best use of resources and the
school estate
• LAs will continue to manage capital allocations until
schools become academies
• Larger MATs will have autonomy over capital funding
• Smaller MATS will bid to the EFA for condition
improvement funding
• More special school places to match local need
• At least £200m to support expansion of provision,
develop new schools and create specialist provision
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DfE Education Strategy Overview 2015-20
Reform 16-19 skills:
� With BIS, deliver 3m high quality apprenticeship starts
� Create high quality technical and professional routes to
employment which are accessible for all
� Reform the provider base to ensure every area is
effectively served by a resilient and responsive system of
schools, FE and Sixth Form Colleges
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Develop Early Years Strategy
• Extend free childcare to 30 hours for working parents of
3 and 4 year olds
• Ensure the market provides sufficient places for all
parents to access the childcare offers to which they are
entitled
• Design reforms that increase the quality of early years
education and childcare, focusing on developing the
workforce
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Managing the Outworkings of
this Policy
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A Considered Organised
Approach
• Establishment of a Project Group
• Appointment of Programme Lead
• Project scope
• Project team
• Key milestones
• Individual workstreams
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Further consultation
• Funding Reforms phase 2 and School
Forum response
• Policies emerging from White Paper
• Consultation on Academy conversions,
MATs, sponsors
• Traded services
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