1. Slide 1 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools Raising Attainment and Aspirations for Children and young people in Bristol Nick Batchelar Service Director, Education, BCC

2. Slide 2 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools The performance picture Policy context Issues Role of voluntary sector

3. Slide 3 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools

4. Slide 4 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools

5. Slide 5 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools

6. Slide 6 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools

7. Slide 7 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools The White Paper says…. “Our central principle has been, and will remain, that each school is responsible for its own improvement.” “In creating a more autonomous school system, we will reduce duties, requirements and guidance on all schools, and make sure that every school can, over time, enjoy the freedoms that Academies currently have. We will dismantle the apparatus of central control and bureaucratic compliance. We will instead make direct accountability more meaningful.”

8. Slide 8 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools “ With remarkable speed we are being committed to radical, long-term policies for which no one voted…..the comprehensive reworking of the Education Act 1944 that is now going forward might well be regarded as a proper matter for open probing…” Archbishop of Canterbury June 2011

9. Slide 9 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools Autonomy InnovationAccountability

10. Slide 10 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools Implications…… For school leaders For school governors For local authorities

11. Slide 11 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools Role of voluntary sector? Early years Youth Links School Governance Specialist support Supplementary/ complementary schools Coaching/ mentoring …..recognise plurality of provision in an increasingly tight financial context……partnership for outcomes

12. Slide 12 Children & Young People’s Services Learning Achievement and Schools Where next? “When the time comes, as it surely must sooner rather than later, for some sort of ‘new settlement’ which balances educational responsibilities and accountabilities as between national and local democracy, the school and the individual parent, equity and choice …I commend (this publication) to you in the spirit of hoping that all concerned will think for themselves and act for others.” Tim Brighouse LGIU 2010