People Directorate

Learning City - Strategic Overview

September 2014

Paul JacobsService Director – Education & Skills

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• Champion for Children, especially the more vulnerable

• Commissioner of places

• Accountable for performance

• System Leader for learning partnerships

Core Role of the Local Authority in the New Landscape

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Education & Skills

Improving outcomes further

Supporting/enabling partnerships

Raising the profile of education across the City; changing perceptions

Developing our Inclusion Strategy and practice

Refreshing our School Organisation Plan

Supporting the development of early intervention

Building the Learning City infrastructure:

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Key Pledges Education achievement is in

the top 50 LAs No Bristol school below floor

standard Disadvantaged learners make

better progress than national Every young person to leave

education with a place in learning, training or a job with training

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2014 Headlines

Early Years Good Level of Development +8.4% to 58.4% (60.4%)

KS2 L4+ Reading, Writing & Maths -1% to 75% (79%)

5+A*-C (incl. E&M) + 3% to 55%

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Provisional Results 2014

Bristol

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EYFS

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Good Level of Development

2013 2014

Bristol 50% 58%

National 52% 60%

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Early Years Update:

58% of Bristol children achieved a good level of development at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage in 2014 – an increase of 8ppts since 2013

National data will be available in October but the provisional national figure is 60%

Attainment has improved in all areas of learning but particularly in mathematics which has improved by 7ppts

Attainment in Writing continues to be the weakest area, despite an increase of 6ppts this year.

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51% of children living in the most disadvantaged areas achieved a good level of development – at 14% the gap between this group and children not living in areas of disadvantage has reduced by 4ppts this year

44% of children eligible for Free School Meals achieved a good level of development - at 19% the gap between these children and their peers has also reduced by 4ppts this year

The gender gap is 15% which is 1ppt wider than in 2013 and at 21% is widest for children of Black or British Black heritage.

The greatest improvement has been for children of dual heritage whose attainment has increased by 14ppts in 2014

Early Years Update:

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From 1st September, 40% of two year olds have been entitled to 15 hours a week of free early education – this equates to 2,500 children in Bristol

Almost 2,000 new two year old places have been created across the early years sector so far, with the aim of providing high quality early learning experiences and a good start in life for all children

Bristol Early Years Teaching School Consortium and BCC Early Years Service are working in partnership to promote continuous quality improvement, linked to strategic priorities, across the early years sector

Ofsted inspection outcomes continue to improve across the early years sector, but particularly for PVI settings.

Early Years Update:

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Key Stage 4Provisional Results

2006-2014

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5A*-C GCSE English & Maths

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Pupils Missing Education

Alternative Provision

SEND reforms

LA Safeguarding Inspection

Inclusion Update

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Pupils Missing Out on Education (PME)

Local authorities have a statutory duty to arrange suitable full-time education for children of compulsory school age at school, or otherwise for children and young people who do not attend school in the usual way.

“Too often, children and young people receive only a part-time education, or have none at all - this can be a safeguarding as well as an educational matter.”

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Pupils Missing Out on Education (PME)

Each local authority should:

Establish a central record of all children not accessing full-time education in the usual way

Identify clear lines of accountability for the quality and amount of provision

Share information across local authority boundaries

Ensure that every child is on the roll of a school, regardless of circumstances

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Pupils Missing Out on Education (PME)

Each School, including Academies and Free Schools, should:

Stop unlawful exclusions

Establish clear accountability for the achievement, safety and personal development of all children and young people

Inform the local authority of any part-time education arrangements

Keep children and young people on the school roll during periods of illness or custody

Give governors sufficient information about children and young people not accessing school in the usual way

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Alternative Learning Provision (ALP)

Alternative provision can be defined as something in which a young person participates as part of their regular timetable, away from the site of the school or the pupil referral unit where they are enrolled, and not led by school staff

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Alternative Learning Provision (ALP)

Positive aspects of the schools’ use of alternative provision:

Good commissioning of the provision

Partnership working with the local authority

The quality of information about the students’ needs given to providers

Schools giving good support to providers

Useful qualifications with clear progression routes

Students reflecting positively on the impact of their experiences

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Alternative Learning Provision (ALP)

The recent Ofsted report on ALP shares the recurring areas for improvement:

The quality of reporting from providers to schools

The monitoring of the quality of provision

Insufficient pre-placement information given to providers or students

The evaluation of the impact of the provision on the outcomes for students

Governors’ knowledge of alternative provision

Health and safety and safeguarding

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Working Together

We need to consider the findings and recommendations from both these reports:

Share best practice and develop joint accountability

Review and revise our current systems

Share and analyse information to improve our practice

Note the resultant changes and focus in Ofsted inspections

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Making a difference for children and young people

Bristol to bea Learning City

where every citizenhas access to

good education and isable to acquire the skills

they need to joinBristol’s world class

workforce

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Learning City - Strategic Overview

September 2014

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