Issue - meetings

1.            That the provisional education outcomes be noted.

2.            That schools and Babcock 4S are currently undertaking a full review of the School Improvement Strategy which will inform the annual school improvement plan for the local authority, to be finalised by 31st March 2013.

3.         That the Head of Education and Head of School Effectiveness, Babcock 4S to return to Cabinet in February 2013, with the Education and Achievement plan and an update on more recently published Ofsted inspection results and performance headlines.

Reasons for Decisions

To ensure that Cabinet is fully informed of the latest provisional education outcomes and to be aware of the current policy context prior to receipt of the Education and Achievement plan in January 2013.

The Cabinet Member for Children and Learning was pleased to introduce a report which presented an overview of the provisional educational outcomes of children and young people in early years, primary, secondary and special school phases for the academic year ending in the summer of 2012.

Provisional results briefings containing results for Surrey and regional comparators for each key stage were available as annexes. Results were provisional and subject to change. However, since the report had been published, KS3 results had now been verified. All figures represented the latest available data and would not be the same as those presented in the Children’s, Schools and Families directorate annual report.

The Cabinet Member considered that the results were a ‘solid set of achievements’ and recognised the excellent work taking place within Surrey schools. However, she mentioned a need for more focus on teaching effectiveness and progress. She also referred to paragraph 36 of the report which set out the Inspection results for all state funded schools within Surrey, to the end of the 2011/12 academic year.

Confirmation was also given that the Education and Achievement Plan would be presented to Cabinet in February 2013.

Finally, she drew attention to her tabled response to the comments from the Education Select Committee (Appendix 4).

The Deputy Leader referred to the diversity of Surrey schools and said that in excess of 20% of Surrey pupils were educated at Independent Schools and their results were not reflected in these statistics.

RESOLVED:

1.            That the provisional education outcomes be noted.

2.            That schools and Babcock 4S are currently undertaking a full review of the School Improvement Strategy which will inform the annual school improvement plan for the local authority, to be finalised by 31 March 2013.

3.         That the Head of Education and Head of School Effectiveness, Babcock 4S return to Cabinet in February 2013, with the Education and Achievement plan and an update on more recently published Ofsted inspection results and performance headlines.

Reasons to Decisions

To ensure that Cabinet is fully informed of the latest provisional education outcomes and to be aware of the current policy context prior to receipt of the Education and Achievement plan in February 2013.