I was in the House today for the announcement by David Laws of the product of the
The full text of the statement is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/reforming-the-accountability-system-for-secondary-schools
Hansard will be live tomorrow as to the question I raised and his answers both to me and others.
The measures were welcomed across the House by Labour as well as the Coalition.
For me the key points were:
- a change to the present system of accountability discourages schools from focusing on the lowest attaining pupils.
- changes to floor standards to measure performance in a fairer way, to take into account a school intake
- more information to be published
- schools that overachieve will not have to do an Ofsted inspection the following year
