What is Exercising the LA?

• Budgets• Ofsted• SEN Reform• Outcomes for children (esp vulnerable)• School places• Relationships with schools – and others• Accountability• What next?

What is Exercising Schools?

• Budgets• Ofsted• SEN Reform• Outcomes for children (esp vulnerable)• School places• Relationships with the LA – and others• Accountability• What next?

Budgets – our revised and confirmed priorities• Ensure a safe and effective social care system• Ensure sufficient capacity to lead, challenge

and improve the schools system• Tightly target limited resources• Target and co-ordinate early help provision• Sustain high quality sold services• Maximise opportunities for efficiencies and

partnerships

Budgets – the reality

• C15% since 2010

• A further £26m by April 15

• A third less capacity

• Yet more by 17/18

• We are better placed than most but cannot ignore the implications

Ofsted Single Inspection Framework Judgements

• Early help and protection judgement – good• Care Leavers judgement – good• Adoption judgement – outstanding• LAC judgement – good• LSCB judgement - good• Leadership management – outstanding• Overall effectiveness - good

SEN Reform• Children and Families Act – Sept 2014• 0-25 Education, Health and Care Plans• Personal budgets “available”• The local offer• Changes to the identification of SEN• One school-based SEN category• Six briefings for schools 2nd – 9th June• Additional briefings for SEN Govs & SENCos

• Better than national average for youngest children on FSM

• The gap between children eligible for FSM and those not narrowed again for 11 year olds

• Hampshire’s gap is large for 16 year olds – 135th our of 150 local authorities, ranked by the size of the gap

• Authorities like Hampshire – large, shire, relatively affluent and in the south east - struggle most

• The gap in London is under 20%, 26% in Southampton; 32% in Surrey and 35% in Hampshire

• It is not possible to discern any effect from the ‘status’ of a school on the attainment of 16 year olds eligible for free school meals in Hampshire

• On every level the most serious challenge for a high performing “universal” education system

FSM in Hampshire - 2013

Noises Off!• IBC• Political positioning ready for 2015• DfE Enquiry into academy performance• Local Commissioners, Ofsted regional teams,

the role of the LA• School governance!• Recruitment in schools• Historic and high-profile child-protection cases

and their aftermath!

Reasons to be Cheerful• More money: £935 for secondary and £1,300 for primary FSM

students: £50m nationally for summer schools for year 7 students who need to ‘catch up’ and an additional £500 per year 7 student who is below expected standards in reading and/or maths plus £1,900 for every LAC in addition to the C£1,900 from DSG.

• Capital programme in Hampshire of C£250m over 3-5 years 8,000 school places plus investment in schools, SEN provision and education centres.

• Children’s Services on the IoW – and elsewhere?• The range of empirical evidence of the quality and effects for

children of our schools and services

And Thank You Governors…

…from a grateful, sustaining, determined, challenging and developing Children’s Services and Local Education Authority