![]() 500,000 teacher training and development opportunities by 2024, giving all teachers and school leaders access to world-class, evidence-based training and professional development at every stage of their career.Chapter 1: an excellent teacher for every child (page 16) ![]() ![]() We look forward to working with the DfE to make sure we provide an education system that is inclusive and works for all children, including those with special educational needs. With sufficient powers and funding councils are ideally placed to act as the ‘middle tier’ between central government and schools, bringing together place-based leadership, an existing duty to promote wellbeing of all children and synergies with wider roles including safeguarding, public health, criminal justice, employment, skills and cohesion. Additional support to keep children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) in mainstream settings will also be crucial to the success of a reformed SEND system, as set out in the SEND Green Paper. The amount of funding made available to support this package must also be kept under review to ensure every child is supported to recover from the impact of the pandemic on their education and broader development and well-being. The LGA supports the focus on helping all children meet their potential with the right support at the right time, particularly in the context of the impact of the pandemic and the Department’s education recovery package. The proposal to introduce a duty on parents to register home-schooled children with their local council in response to concerns expressed by the LGA and our members over a number of years is welcome. ![]() It is also good councils are to be given powers to direct all schools, including academies, to admit pupils that are out-of-school and make sure they are back in the classroom as quickly as possible. The Department should also utilise this expertise while the proposals set out in the White Paper are implemented and allow councils to support ‘orphan’ schools where Regional Schools Commissioners are struggling to find a strong MAT to take them on. We are pleased that the Department for Education (DfE) recognises that councils have an excellent track record in providing a high-quality education for pupils, with 92 per cent of maintained schools rated by Ofsted as outstanding or good – a higher proportion than any other type of school – and that this will continue in a fully-academised system. This should be on offer in every area where that is the preference of schools and parents. This is something councils and the LGA have campaigned to achieve for a number of years. We are pleased that the Government recognise that the existing education system is fragmented and councils have a continued role at the centre of local education systems with powers to match their duties around place-planning and ensuring pupils out of school return to the classroom as soon as possible.Īllowing councils to set up and lead their own Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) is also welcome. Councils have a crucial role to play in education, from ensuring every child has a school place to turning around struggling schools, and as they showed when providing vital support to schools during the pandemic.
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