1. Director’s Briefing 18th October 2016
Simon Leftley Brin Martin Head of Learning Southend Borough Council

2. Simon Leftley I This years results
Children's Services Inspection outcome and action plan;
SBC Senior Management Review;
Our Town, Our Future;

3. Simon Leftley II Planning Places, secondary/primary/special
SEND inspection of the area
Area Based Reviews
Integrated Children’s Services

4. Brin Martin Outcomes Education Board Ambition/Vision for Education
School Performance Sub Group
Ambition/Vision for Education
OFSTED
School’s Emergency Planning Support
And yes, MATS…

5. Outcomes Primary
71.2% (69.3%)
All above by at least 2%
55.4%(53.2%)

6. Secondary Outcomes Measure Performance National Statistical Rank
Attainment 8
53.3
48.2
15th (1)
Progress 8
0.00
-003
63 (2)
A*-C in English and Maths
68.5%
58.7%
24th (1)
5+A*-C inc Eng and Maths
64.8%
52.8%
14th (1)
EBacc
33.7%
22.8%
16th (1)

7. Gaps KS1 gap between Non disadvantaged and Disadvantaged -22.3%

8. Cabinet and People Scrutiny
Direction
Governance
Scrutiny of policy
SBC corporate plans and priorities
Key performance indicators
Performance management
Our ambitions for your child’s education in Southend
Education “policy” for Southend Borough Council
Education Board
Implementation and operations for all schools
Reports to Cabinet and Scrutiny
School Performance Sub Group
Commissioning of intervention challenge and support
School Performance Strategy
Intervention criteria and categorisation

9. SPSG A “shadow” group met to support the scrutiny of outcomes;
Several meetings have taken place with the RSC and his team to ensure consistency;
Depending upon the context in which the school finds itself, a range of actions will follow in order to support the school’s improvement journey.

10. Membership of the School Performance Sub Group
Representation
Members of the Education Board
4 other members nominated from the four associations
1 post 16
1 Early years
Regional Commissioner for Schools or nominee
Head of Learning
Group Manager for school performance
Jim Johnson
Lisa Clarke
Neil Houchen
Tim Barrett
Jerry Glazier
Maurice Sweeting (governor)
One Primary
One Secondary
One other
TBC
Vicky Wright
Tim Coulson
Brin Martin

11. Your next visit… Contingent upon: When you were last inspected
The judgement
Your status, academy conversion or sponsorship
If you amalgamated
And as a result…
I am anticipating anything up to 21 inspections this academic year

12. Inspection preparation
Afternoon inspection preparation briefing/sharing
Potential visit by a school performance officer to support the schools preparation
Possible further support as required
Attendance during the inspection and feedback

13. Ambitions

14. Draft Southend Schools Critical Incident Response Plan
This process in intended to support the existing Southend Response in Education Establishments Plan (version 10 June 15)
The trigger for a Critical Incident is contained within this document
The intention is to lead and manage the response SUPPORT to the SCHOOL from the COUNCIL
The management of the response resides with the school

15. MATs

16. DfE perspective? From my perception of a conversation…
That becoming an academy is the solution for improving schools
Good or outstanding schools remain relatively free to convert
Small Mats are unlikely to be approved
Size 10-12?
Cross phase? Secondary led??
A balance of strengths within the MAT
A clear (and non negotiable) governance model(s)
The importance of utilising capacity in the system
A view that MATs should be almost “self contained”
That MATs could be required to amalgamate or be asked to take on/lose schools
That infant/junior schools should become part of the same MAT
That sooner rather than later all Southend schools will all be MATs