Service Plan 2004/05

 

Directorate: Education and Community Development

 

Service Area: Educational Effectiveness and Lifelong Learning

 

Produced by: David Pettitt

 

Phone Number: 823400

 

Location: County Hall

 

Date completed: August 2003

 

 

Services covered: Advisory and Inspection Services (School Improvement Services); SEN Support Services (Pupil Services), Education Centre, Early Years Service, Youth Service

 

Key Achievements from 2003/04:

 

Successful implementation of actions within the five priorities of EDP2 with particular reference to:-

 

Ø      Early Years and Foundation Key Stage

 

·        Achievement of Early Years Development and Childcare Plan Targets

·        Successful implementation of governor training and support programme

·        100% success rate on OFSTED inspections of early years settings

·        Development and implementation of early years initiatives in early excellent centres, neighbourhood nurseries, Sure Start (local) project, children’s centres and extended schools programme

 

Ø      Pupil Achievement at Key Stages 1, 2, 3 and 4

 

·        Maintenance of high levels of attainment at KS1

·        Significant improvement of KS3 performance

·        Improvement of KS4 performance

·        Improvement of AS/A level performance

 

Ø      14 – 19 Curriculum Coherence

 

·        Implementation of Tertiary Strategic Group in partnership with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Learning and Skills Council, providers and key stakeholders.

·        Full curriculum/provision audit of 14 -19 Education and Training presented to and considered by Council Executive Committee (to review in Spring 2004)

·        Establishment of Post 16 co-ordinators group

·        Establishment of 14 – 19 co-ordinator post – joint funded through the TSG.

·        Implementation of KS4 increased flexibility curriculum involving all high schools and the Isle of Wight College.

·        Continued support for South Central Connexions partnership resulting in full operational status from September 2002.

 

Ø      School Self Evaluation and Improvement

 

·        Implementation of School Support and Challenge programme from April 2002

·        No new schools identified as special measures 2003

·        Launch and implementation of ‘cluster group’ programme to enhance school improvement.

·        EDP members task group established and operational 2003

·        Implementation of Governor Support Programme 2003

·        Achievement of National Grid for Learning targets and successful development of ICT/e-learning programme

·        Implementation of cluster ‘data book’ for centrally employed staff

·        Continued development of intranet service through ‘Eduwight’ for all schools

·        SEN reference and strategy group established with senior school managers

·        Establishment of LEA interaction team for work in schools experiencing difficulties and extension of Advanced Skills Teacher programme (AST)

 

Ø      Special Education Needs Re-organisation

 

·        Special school re-organisation achieved September 2003 including extensive re-furbishment programme

·        Successful implementation of SEN monitoring system in schools

·        Establishment of two pupil referral units for KS1 & 2, and KS3 & 4 pupils

·        Establishment of Communication and Interaction resource centre at Carisbrooke High School

·        Successful implementation of Communication and Interaction resources centre at Nodehill Middle School.

 

Ø      Youth Service

 

·        Successful completion of Best Value Review and implementation of improvement plan 2003/04

·        Successful implementation of Transforming Youth Work Programme through Youth Empowerment Officer.  Establishment of Youth Council

·        Successful development of outreach projects including youth street work initiative and mobile youth initiative

 

Ø      General

 

·        Strong customer satisfaction response from schools in Annual Audit Commission Survey of LEA managed services.

·        Award of Investors in People Status

 

Key Objectives and Improvements for 2004/05:

 

Ø      To achieve the key targets in the relevant statutory plans

 

o       Early Years and Childcare Development Plan

o       Educational Development Plan 2

o       SEN Development Plan

o       Youth Service Best Value Review : Improvement Plan

o       Education Centre Development Plan

 

Ø      To successfully implement the cluster group initiative for all schools and centrally employed staff

Ø      To successfully implement joint Children’s Services Provision with Social Service Directorate and health partners through response to legislation (Green Paper) and the Preventative Strategy and Information Sharing (IRT) initiatives.

 

Longer term objectives:

 

To achieve continuous improvement in all service areas and gain enhanced ‘star rating’ for education services with reference to performance and capacity to improve.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 



2. Structure and Budget 2004-05  Budget/Resourcing arrangements for 2004/05 not yet available from DfES – expect confirmation Nov/Dec 2003.  2003/04 as follows:

 

 

Team

Gross Costs

(£’000s)

Staff Costs (£’000s)

Other Costs (£’000s)

Income

(£’000s)

Workforce (FTE)

Advisory and Inspection Service

1,081,272

417,978

663,294

-

18

Education Centre

136,705

75,316

61,389

-

14

Early Years Service

2,052,112

2,019,726

32,386

-

23

SEN Pupil Services

5,384,972

2,067,243

3,317,729

-

92

Youth Service

925,308

835,555

89,753

-

20

 

 

5. Key Performance Measures and Targets 2004/05

 

5a Targets for the Annual Action Statement 2004/05

 

 

Target Description

Target 2003/04

Target 2004/05

Benchmark figure (2001/02)

Source

1.  15 years olds in LEA schools achieving 5 or more GCSEs at grades A*-C (or equivalent)

51%

54%

46%

DfES

2.  5% increase in achievement levels of pupils at 14 in Key Stage 3 tests

En 65%

70%

56%

Ma 69%

74%

64%

Sc 66%

71%

55%

3.  100% of all SEN statements prepared within 18 weeks (excluding exceptions)

100%

100%

80%

DFES

4.  100% of early years settings on 2 year OfSTED inspection cycle

100%

100%

100%

5.  Percentage of schools in special measures

1.4.%

0%

1.4.%

DfES

 

 

5b Mandatory targets 2004/05

 

PI

Ref

 

Indicator

02/03 Target

02/03 Outturn

03/04 Target

04/05 Target

Similar Unitary

Authorities

75th Percentile

Median

25th Percentile

BVPI 033

Youth Service expenditure per head of population in the Youth Service target age range

£70.86

£108.22

£110.11

£111

£101.83

£80.81

£63.53

BVPI 038

Percentage of 15 year old pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority achieving five or more GCSEs at grades A* - C or equivalent

50%

44%

51%

54%

51%

44%

40%

BVPI 039

Percentage of 15 year old pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalent at grades A* - G including English and Maths

88%

87.6.%

89%

93%

96%

95%

93%

BVPI 040

Percentage of pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority achieving Level 4 or above in Key Stage 2 Mathematics test

70%

71%

77%

86%

73%

71%

66%

BVPI 041

Percentage of pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority achieving Level 4 or above in Key Stage 2 English test

82%

72.9%

83%

85%

77%

73%

70%

BVPI 043a

Statements of special educational needs drafted within 18 weeks as a percentage of all statements excluding cases where any of the exceptions listed in 3.4 to 3.42 of the code of Practice apply

100%

96%

100%

100%

98%

90%

82%

BVPI 043b

Statements of special educational need drafted within 18 weeks including those involving other agencies as a percentage of statements including cases where any of the exceptions listed in 3.4 to 3.42 of the Code of Practice apply.

70%

55%

60%

70%

83%

73%

58%

BVPI 044

Number of pupils permanently excluded during the year from all schools maintained by the local education authority per 1,000 pupils at all maintained schools

0.7

0.7

0.6

0.7

1.9

1.47

0.85

BVPI 045

Percentage of half days missed due to total absence in secondary schools maintained by the local education authority.

0.6%

8.58%

8.6%

8.5%

1.4%

1.1%

0.7%

BVPI 046

Percentage of half days missed due to total absence in primary schools maintained by the local education authority

0.1%

6.2%

6%

6.95%

0.68%

0.4%

0.3%

BVPI 048

Percentage of schools maintained by the local education authority subject to special measures

0%

1.4%

1.4%

0%

2.2%

1%

0%

BVPI 159a

The percentage of permanently excluded pupils provided with alternative tuition of 5 hours or less

5%

5%

3%

0%

80%

63%

36%

BVPI 159b

The percentage of permanently excluded pupils provided with alternative tuition of 6 – 12 hours

10%

42%

3%

0%

59%

33%

18%

BVPI 159c

The percentage of permanently excluded pupils provided with alternative tuition of 13 – 19 hours

70%

16%

4%

0%

7%

0%

0%

BVPI 159d

The percentage of permanently excluded pupils with alternative tuition of 20 hours or more

15%

37%

90%

100%

Not applicable

 

 

5c Other key targets 2004/05

 

 

Performance Indicator and source

Target

2002/3

Actual

2002/3

Target

2003/4

Target 2004/5

Benchmark Figure

Source

Raise the achievement of 14 year olds above the LEA agreed targets in English, Mathematics, Science and ICT.  The baseline for this enhanced performance will be the percentage of island pupils achieving level 5 or above of the National Curriculum in the national tests for 14 year olds in these subjects (PSA and DfES)

 

 

 

 

(2001)

 

English

65

65

73

74

57

PSA /DfES

Mathematics

69

67

75

76

64

Science

66

69

72

73

55

ICT

69

67

75

76

62

Providing family literacy support to schools through the development of the ‘Family Literacy and Basic Skills programmes.  Increasing the number of primary and middle school settings for the programme beyond the targets of the 2002/07 EDP.  Improving adult basic skills.

 

 

 

 

 

PSA/DfES

Adults on the programme

-

-

110

140

82

Adults gaining formal qualifications

-

-

90

115

60

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key Stage 2 reading and writing gap in English at Level 4

-

-

20%

15%

36%

 

7. Resource Bids Summary

 

Reference Number

Description

Financial Implications

2004/5 £000

2005/6 £000

2006/7 £000

ED4

School Cluster Group Initiatives

600

650

700

ED5

Communication and Interaction Service

310

326

342

 

Dyslexia Centres

90

95

100

 

Oak House

50

53

56

 

Children’s Services Development Officer

35

37

39

 

English as an Additional Language

70

74

78

 

Education out of School provision

60

63

66

ED6

Youth Empowerment Worker

40

42

44

 

Part-time Youth Worker Posts

54

57

17

 

One stop shop

15

16

17