1. Education, Skills and Work The Inclusive Growth Challenge in Sheffield
Sheffield City Partnership Board
Education, Skills and Work
The Inclusive Growth Challenge in Sheffield
Stephen Betts (Chief Executive, Learn Sheffield)
Friday 12th May, 2017 Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Industry

2. Education, Skills and Work
The Inclusive Growth Challenge in Sheffield
Content
Learn Sheffield Overview
Education Performance
Key Challenges
Potential Next Steps

3. Learn Sheffield Overview
Not for profit Schools Company
80% owned by schools/colleges
20% owned by Sheffield City Council
Membership includes all sectors and types of publically funded education
Purpose – school improvement (commissioned by SCC)
Belief – improvement through partnership (school-led system)
Strategic vision – takes a wide view of improvement – reflected in the development of Sheffield Priorities

4. School Improvement Strategy
Sheffield Improvement Strategy developed and trialled through 2015/16 and launched in September 2016.
Each school is categorised by self, peers (partnership group) & Learn Sheffield.
Work through nine partnership groups (7 primary localities, secondary & special).
School category leads to an entitlement (support and challenge).
Model for all schools – maintained and academies (universal offer).
Workforce – core Learn Sheffield team, Associates & partnership groups.

5. Priorities – Vision for Education
Purpose of education – better life chances …
attainment (opens doors)
& readiness (to walk through those doors)

6. Education Performance – Sheffield Success Story
Learn Sheffield model provides a platform for collaboration.
All schools and sectors are engaged – includes academies & MATs.
Teaching Schools are working with Learn Sheffield and together.
Wider strategic partnerships are possible (S-CEP for example).
Sheffield has a school-led vision for education.
The model provides very cost effective school improvement.
Sheffield outcomes continue to improve.
Proportion of good/better schools (Ofsted) increased to 83% (↑7% since September 2015 and ↑ 12% since January 2015).
Pupil outcomes have continued upward trajectory and performance across the education system in Sheffield is now broadly national average.

7. Education Performance – Sheffield Success Story
The chart below summaries Sheffield’s national ranking for each headline measure in relation to the average for Core Cities and statistical neighbours. Sheffield’s rank in 2015 is also shown.
For the majority of indicators Sheffield’s rank has improved between 2015 and 2016 (continue upward trend).
Sheffield ranks 112th in terms of child poverty and the majority of ranks for attainment and progress measures are above 112 which suggests that the city is doing well given the relative levels of child poverty.

8. Key Challenges Ambition has to be ‘step change’ in performance.
Living in Sheffield needs to give you a better chance of attending a good/better school.
Being educated here needs to support young people in attaining more than elsewhere.
This must include better outcomes for our most vulnerable learners.
This must be accompanied by greater ‘readiness’ for our young people.
National policy context creates additional challenges.
Accountability framework creates disincentives to inclusion and collaboration.
National funding of school improvement is less likely to support co-ordinated intelligent system improvement – School Improvement Strategy is key to impact.
Maintaining (let alone expanding!) our investment in local strategic priorities.

9. Sheffield City Council
Potential Next Steps
Vision
Schools
Sheffield
Challenge
(Currently SCC Commission)
Strategy
Sheffield City Council
DfE

10. Sheffield City Council
Potential Next Steps
Sheffield City Region
Schools
South Yorkshire
Challenge
Next Steps
Secure partner sign up in principle.
Agree local and regional priorities – over-lapping but some local variation.
Agree strategy – working model with core principles and local input and co-ordination.
Ensure that the strategic priorities create better incentives and deliver the outcomes we need for inclusive growth.
Sheffield City Council
DfE