Chairs and Vice Chairs of Governing Bodies with senior officers and Lead Member

Tuesday 16 June 2015

Local and national updates:

• Education and Adoption Bill • Strengthening Families• Community and cultural services review• Inspection outcomes

Director of Children’s Services Update

But first, some people news…

• Farewell to Sue Bruce who retired on Friday – Sue started working for BCC in 1978. A warm welcome to Sara Butler who takes up the role of Governor Services Officer.

• Congratulations to Liz Bull, former Head of Slated Row School who was awarded an OBE for services to education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (one of 108 this year)

National updates

Education and Adoption Bill

A Bill to make provision about schools in England that are causing concern, including provision about their conversion into Academies and about intervention powers

• Schools judged ‘inadequate’ will automatically become an academy• Formal powers of intervention extended to ‘coasting schools’

– Warning notices– Interim Executive Boards– Academisation

Local updates: Strengthening Families

• Phase two of ‘Troubled Families’ initiative now underway

• Wider national criteria (two required):

‐ Parent/child crime or anti-social behaviour‐ School attendance issues ‐ Children ‘who need help’ (in need or subject to a Protection Plan) ‐ Adults/YP out of work/risk of financial exclusion/worklessness‐ Families affected by domestic violence and abuse‐ Parents and children with a range of health problems

• Streamlined on-line nomination process

• MK eligibility criteria and success measures set out in our local outcomes plan

What will families experience?

A personalised, outcome focused and co-ordinated approach:

1. A joined up (whole family) approach2. Improved priority/access to services 3. Incentives when they achieve outcomes 4. Professionals supported to deliver interventions5. Long term tracking and if necessary further intervention

Work ongoing to develop the offer further.

Progress since April

257 families to be identified and worked with in 2015/16, with further targets in the subsequent four financial years (1510 total)

Already identified

70

Re-quired by year

end187

For more information on referring search for ‘Strengthening Families MK’

Community and Cultural Services Review(CCSR)

UpdateJune 2015

What is CCSR?

• The Community and Cultural Services Review (CCSR) was initiated as a response to 2015/16 budget proposals and a commitment to finding more creative and sustainable models for the delivery of libraries, children’s centres and youth services including information advice and guidance.

• The review, underpinned by transitional funding, aims to explore new ways of working and a greater level of engagement with our partners and the community. It is not about the council walking away from these important services that make a difference to the quality of many people’s lives.

• The term community and cultural services is a broad one and it is important to recognise that there are activities which are not in the scope of this review at this stage.

Timescales and financial implications

• The review formally started in April 2014 and was planned to last two years (to end in March 2016).

• The review will reduce the council’s expenditure across libraries, youth services and children’s centres by £2.3m within two years.

• £1.5m of transition funding has been made available to support the phased implementation to the way we do things.

Local Authorities have a duty to…

Provide public libraries under the Public Libraries and Museums Act (1964)

Provide sufficient children’s centres to meet local need under the Childcare Act (2006)

Secure services and activities for young people under the Education and Inspections Act (2006) Promote the effective participation in education and training of 16 and 17 year olds in their area under the Education and Skills Act (2008).

Progress so far…

LibrariesBuilding on earlier work, a study of possibilities

for a sustainable future for each library, ‘Sharing Responsibility for Libraries’, has been produced. Engagement activities in June and

July to hear ideas and talk through the options.

Children’s CentresDiscussions with 12 schools are taking place

where the children’s centre is on the same site to explore a significant role for schools in the leadership and local management of centres.

Youth Services Following engagement activities, including with Ofsted, a new delivery model will see a smaller, more targeted youth service being co-ordinated Community Learning MK. This

includes the Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) team for young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET).

Identified savings to date mean that by the end of the financial year reductions to expenditure in

the region of £1.6m annually will have been achieved.

Next steps…

• A Cabinet Advisory Group has been formed and a progress report to Cabinet is planned for 13 July. A project board is in place and will continue to meet.

• The implementation of the first wave of changes needs to be completed. These include reshaping our work with young people who are not in education, employment or training and refreshing our approach to youth work with a greater emphasis on more targeted work.

• During the autumn, a second wave of changes realising £700K of cost reductions will be needed across children’s centres and libraries.

• We plan to continue our engagement activities with colleagues, partners and stakeholders to explore all possibilities and embrace a co-operative approach to service design and delivery.

School Ofsted Outcomes – Latest Positions

Community / Foundation /

VC / VA

Outstanding Good Percentage Good or Outstanding

Requires Improvement Inadequate No Judgement Total Number

19 (22%) 54 (62%) 84% 14 (16%) 0 0 87

All schools

Outstanding Good Percentage Good or Outstanding

Requires Improvement Inadequate No Judgement Total Number

25 (23%) 67 (61%) 84% 18 (16%) 0 0 110 (23 Academies)

10 June 2015

Changes to inspection

From September 2016

• Directly contracted inspectors will undertake inspections.

• Seven out of 10 of these inspectors will from good/outstanding schools and colleges.

• A common framework for inspection is being introduced encompassing all education and skills providers, so that common judgements and terminology can be used across.

• Ofsted will inspect good schools once every three years under a new short inspection model. Inspectors will start from a premise that the school is still good and focus on ensuring that those standards are being maintained.

• These short inspections will last one day and be led by one or two HMI. Where HMI think there may be a change of grade, the inspection will be converted to a full inspection and continue, most commonly, for an additional day.

Milton Keynes - Together for learning

Further develop the existing opportunities for collaboration across Milton Keynes and reach out nationally and internationally to learn from the best. Promote Milton Keynes as an attractive and rewarding place to come and work and continue to develop those colleagues who are already here. Redouble our efforts to ensure all children and young people, particularly those with additional needs, get the support they need to participate and be successful.

We are a confident school community

We value each others support and challenge

We want to be at the leading edge of learning

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DRAFT 1

Milton Keynes – Open for Learning

For challenge and support

For innovation

For growth

For collaboration

Further develop the existing opportunities for collaboration across Milton Keynes and reach out nationally and internationally to learn from the best.

Promote Milton Keynes as an attractive and rewarding place to come and work and continue to develop those colleagues who are already working here.

Focus our efforts on all children and young people, particularly those with additional needs, to get the support they need to participate and be successful.

Our priorities...

Question – Do we need to say something about excellence and aspiration or is it implied?

Headteacher recruitment – Trends and outlook

Madeleine CarringtonLeadership and Governance Consultant

Headteacher vacancies

• 38 headteacher resignations since April 2013• Variety of reasons for turnover, but mainly retirement

Percentage of vacancies by cause

Death

Unknown

Resignation

Retirement

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

3%

3%

39%

55%

Headteacher appointments

• 37 substantive appointments – 73% LA-managed

Percentage of new Headteachers recruited by previous role held• Of the 14 MK–DHT/Other appointees, 79% were internal to the school

Ongoing Appointments

Not MK - DHT/Other

Not MK - HT

MK - DHT/Other

MK - HT

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

11%

19%

22%

38%

11%

Time to fill

• Nationally, Headteacher vacancies are increasingly hard to fill, often requiring re-advertising

• The picture in Milton Keynes details recruitment iterations for the 27 vacancies managed by MKC

Iterations to fill vacancies as a percentage of all filled

Ongoing

Iteration 4

Iteration 3

Iteration 2

Iteration 1

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

15%

4%

11%

30%

41%

Change to assessment - headlines

Cheryl EyreHead of Delivery Setting and School

Effectiveness

Assessment and Curriculum HeadlinesPrimary Phase

• EYS Baseline starts Sept 2015 – replaces EYFSP• Phonics – no change• KS1 2016 assessed against new curriculum• KS2 2016 assessed against new curriculum

• KS2 sample test materials www.gov.uk/government/news/2016-national-curriculum-tests-sample-materials-now-available

Assessment and Curriculum HeadlinesSecondary Phase

• KS2 in Spring 2016 SATs retakes in Year 7 (not statute yet)• KS4 Summer 2016 graded against Progress 8 / Attainment 8• KS4 2017 exam grade boundaries raised and additional level

introduced (A*-G →9-1)• English and Maths GCSE retakes in year 12 continue• Sept 2015 start: AS or 2 year A level become individual

qualifications• Sept 2015 KS4 / 5 all modular to linear courses• Sept 2015 KS4 new curriculum • Sept 2015-2017 KS5 new curriculum content to be phased in

LA systems and processes around children missing education (CME)

(Catching up not toughening up)

The legal framework

• All children are entitled to a full time education suitable to their age, ability, aptitude and any special educational need they may have.

• Children missing education (CME) are at significant risk of under achievement, abuse, including child sexual exploitation (CSE) and of falling out of education employment or training (NEET) later in life.

• LAs are expected to have robust procedures and policies in place to enable them to meet their duties in relation to these children, including appointing a named person to whom schools and other agencies can make referrals.

• From June 2013 Ofsted has been implementing a new joint inspection for multi-agency arrangements for the protection of children, including CME.

Who are CME?

Ofsted identifies children missing from education as children who:

1. Have been permanently excluded from roll (and require a place within 6 days of exclusion)

2. Have poor attendance (less than 90% attendance over last two terms)

3. Are receiving unsuitable home education

4. Have been removed from a school roll with no knowledge of where the child will go to school

5. Are on part-time timetables with no clear reintegration pathway to full time education

Changes being introduced

• Head of Delivery, Sufficiency and Access key point of contact for all CME

• Termly reporting and analysis of CME data to identify vulnerable children and families. This can mostly be obtained from school census, but a new procedure will be required for reporting of part–time timetables

• Changes to the way we oversee exclusions – with one point of contact and greater focus on faster and fairer re-integration and better use of the PRU

• Regular reporting and analysis of fixed term exclusions to enable targeted work to take place with schools and children at risk of permanent exclusion

• Improved guidance for schools and parents will be published for September 2015 to ensure that these changes are well understood

What this might mean for you?

• Governors might need to take a greater level of interest in this area

• Schools might see more requests for information

• There will be an expectation that responses are timely and deadlines met

• Schools may need to consider if the right systems and people are in place to engage appropriately

• Trust Marie and her team to act fairly and responsibly for the benefit of all children and all schools

Marie Denny, Head of Sufficiency and Access Telephone 01908 253935 Email Marie.Denny@Milton-keynes.gov.uk

Lead Member update

Cllr Norman Miles

Governor Services Update

Madeleine CarringtonLeadership and Governance Consultant

Next meeting

Monday 19 October 2015