1. Empowering Schools: A Consultation on the Provision of Education (Scotland) Bill East Dunbartonshire Council Consultation

2. You can view and respond to this consultation online at: You can save and return to your responses while the consultation is still open. Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date of Tuesday 30 January 2018

3. Regional Improvement Collaborative
6 Regions – each having a regional improvement collaborative lead.
Detailed regional improvement plan by January 2018
Changes to planning and reporting cycles possibly every two years including frequency for National Improvement Planning cycles within the National Improvement Framework (See Q15 and Q16)
Key overarching policies:
GIRFEC
Curriculum For Excellence
Developing Young Workforce

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6. West Partnership is now named:
Glasgow City Regional Education Improvement Collaborative.

7. The Head Teachers’ Charter

8. The Head Teachers’ Charter

9. The Head Teachers’ Charter

10. Parental and Community Engagement
Clearer and Stronger Parental engagement in review of Scottish Schools (Parental) Involvement Act 2006.
Strengthen, modernise and extend provision to include:
Update HT duties to inform and consult with Parent Councils on school policy and improvement and curricula design
Ensure appropriate steps to work with wider parent forum
Ensure improvements meet own local circumstances
Modernise the legal definition to include prominent place given to parental engagement in learning, learning in the home and family learning
Question 8 – Are these aims correct? How does this take shape?
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11. Pupil Participation
“…it is a right of children and young people to have a say in matters that affect them as part of that experience...young people should have opportunities to:
• provide inputs that shape educational provision – both in terms of the formal curriculum and wider curriculum – and have a say in planning where and how learning takes place;
• learn through participating in many kinds of educational processes as part of everyday schooling and early learning; and
• create impactful outcomes for themselves and others as a result of intergenerational dialogue. Where effective learner participation is planned and structured and based on core principles it can lead to good education becoming relevant, valuable, and supportive of achievement and attainment”

12. Education Workforce Council
Newly established body – taking responsibilities of GTC, Community Learning and Development Council as well as registering other educational professionals:
• Teachers
• CLD Practitioners
• Classroom Assistants/ASL Support Workers
• Early Years Practitioners
• School Librarians
• College Lecturers and relevant support staff
• Home/School Link Workers
Overall responsibility to regulate and create core standards and codes of conduct regulations.

13. QUESTION SUMMARY
Question 2 The Headteachers’ Charter will empower headteachers to develop their school improvement plans collaboratively with their school community. What improvements could be made to this approach?
Question 4 The Headteachers’ Charter will set out the freedoms which headteachers should have in relation to staffing decisions.
a. What are the advantages and disadvantages of headteachers being able to have greater input into recruitment exercises and processes adopted by their local authority?
b. What are the advantages and disadvantages of headteachers’ ability to choose their teams and decide on the promoted post structure within their schools?

14. QUESTION SUMMARY
Question 6 How could local authorities increase transparency and best involve headteachers and school communities in education spending decisions?
Question 7 What types of support and professional learning would be valuable to headteachers in preparing to take up the new powers and duties to be set out in the Headteachers’ Charter?
Question 8 Are the broad areas for reform to the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act correct?
Question 9 How should the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 be enhanced to ensure meaningful consultation by headteachers with parents on substantive matters of school policy, improvement planning and curricula design?

15. QUESTION SUMMARY
Question 11 Should the Bill include a requirement that all schools in Scotland pursue the principles of pupil participation set out in Chapter 3? Should this be included in the Headteachers’ Charter?
Question 13 Should the Bill include provisions requiring each local authority to collaborate with partner councils and with Education Scotland in a Regional Improvement Collaborative?
Question 15 If we require Regional Improvement Collaboratives to report on their achievements (replacing individual local authority reports), should they be required to report annually? Would less frequent reporting (e.g. every two years) be a more practical and effective approach?

16. QUESTION SUMMARY
Question 18 What other purpose and aims might you suggest for the proposed Education Workforce Council for Scotland?
Question 20 What other functions might you suggest for the proposed Education Workforce Council for Scotland?