My Digital Garden

Bridget Phillipson's Speech to the Confederation of School Trusts

Bridget Phillipson's Speech to the Confederation of School Trusts (GOV.UK, 2024)

rw-book-cover

Metadata

Highlights

  • £2.3bn increase to the core schools budget next year. (View Highlight)
    • Note: what is this in real terms?
  • High and rising standards in every school, in every trust. (View Highlight)
  • curriculum and assessment review (View Highlight)
  • We’re reforming accountability, ending single headline Ofsted grades in schools, moving to an approach that drives up standards for children, with greater transparency for parents and more support for schools. (View Highlight)
  • alongside attainment is the wellbeing of our children. (View Highlight)
  • best recruitment strategy is a strong retention strategy (View Highlight)
  • mental health (View Highlight)
  • absence epidemic (View Highlight)
  • relentless focus on driving up attendance (View Highlight)
  • direction of that reform is inclusive mainstream (View Highlight)
  • improving inclusivity and expertise in mainstream education settings. (View Highlight)
  • Curriculum and Assessment Review will look at the barriers which hold back those with SEND. (View Highlight)
  • increased training for early years providers (View Highlight)
  • Dame Christine Lenehan as our strategic advisor on SEND. (View Highlight)
  • Tom Rees, Chief Executive of Ormiston Academies Trust, who is with us here today, will be leading a group of experts to help us drive forward work on inclusion in mainstream education settings. (View Highlight)
  • NHS England ADHD taskforce (View Highlight)
  • I expect all schools, regardless of type, to support each other, to drive a self-improving system. (View Highlight)
  • inspection across multi academy trusts (View Highlight)