Hull Education Protocol 2020-21 Contents

Our Education Ambitions p3 The Role of the Local Authority in Education p4 The Role of Schools p6 The Hull School Landscape p7 Hull Council Education Structure p9 The Education Core Offer to Schools and Academies p10 Traded Services to Schools and Academies p10 Inclusion Statement p11 Strategic Education Partnerships in Hull p14 Education Reporting Structure p15 Council Structure p16 2019 City Wide School Standards p17 Hull School Signatures of Risk p18

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Education Ambitions Our ambitions are simple Ambition 1 All children and young people should be able to but significant. They are learn and develop in a provision that has been challenging but achievable. judged to be ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’. What we do know is that Ambition 2 In the key indicators of achievement and attendance reaching these ambitious in Hull, we will close the gap and then aim to exceed targets will improve the national figures. In order to deliver these ambitions educational outcomes and will work in partnership with all education providers to challenge and support them on behalf of our the life chances for our children and young people. Good education is their key to a bright future and to the future success of future citizens. the region. In a period of change in the education landscape the Council commits to working alongside the range of education providers in Hull to secure the entitlement for all children to learn and thrive in good schools.

3 The Role of the Local Authority in Education

The LA has a statutory duty ‘to promote high l To provide a Standing Advisory Council for l Duties in relation to school admissions both as standards and fulfilment of potential in schools so Religious Education local authority and as the admission authority for that all children and young people benefit from at all community schools least a good education’ (Education Act 1996). The l To make provision for the education of children Council as an education authority has a duty to with medical needs l Duty to ensure provision of school lunches for promote high standards of education and fair access those eligible for free school meals l To appoint LA Governors to maintained LA to education. schools and provide initial training l Duties in relation to schools finance, in particular The Local Authority has a range of statutory duties the duty to establish a Schools Forum and to l To receive information from schools regarding and functions in education. These can be maintain a Scheme for Financing Schools exclusions, make provision for excludees and summarised as: convene appeals panels in LA maintained Local Authorities are expected to intervene early to l To champion high educational standards on schools. prevent failure in maintained schools causing behalf of children and families and provide concern and to inform the RSC where there are l To record and monitor Elective Home Education political accountability for the best possible concerns about an . These expectations in accordance with national guidance and CYP in education on behalf of local communities are formally set out by the DfE in Schools Causing receipt of reduced timetables Concern Guidance which both the local authorities l To promote the best educational opportunities for l and RSC must follow: vulnerable children and those with SEND and to To make arrangements to identify children and www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools- intervene on their behalf where necessary young people of compulsory school age missing education in the area causing-concern l To promote high quality education for Children In addition, the LA has a remit to engage with all l To begin procedures for issuing a School Looked After via the Virtual School providers and convene effective partnerships to Attendance Order if it appears to the local facilitate the best outcomes for children. In a school- l To provide access to education and administer authority that a child of compulsory school age is led system the role of the LA is not to provide school formal processes for children with SEND not receiving a suitable education, either by improvement advice, but to know the education regular attendance at school or otherwise l To ensure a sufficiency of school and Early Years landscape, challenge provision, particularly for

places l Provide Assistive Transport in accordance with vulnerable groups and support the removal of national guidelines barriers to learning. The LA recognises and values l To monitor the administration of statutory tests the critical role of schools in the success of and assessments and provide the moderation communities. function

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LA Engagement with the Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC), Ofsted and other external bodies The LA has regular meetings with the RSC and a further meeting with the link HMI inspector for Hull. Regular meetings take place with Diocesan representatives. Discussions cover both general school improvement and organisation activity across the area and issues relating to standards, academy brokerage, place planning and safeguarding in individual schools. The LA works constructively with the RSC to share information and consider any action which may be appropriate. External partners, particularly the RSC, often require the input of the LA into decisions regarding national accreditation such as Teaching School or NLE status. The views of the LA are also sought in situations where the RSC is seeking to broker school to school support including re-brokerage of academies, sponsorship of new schools or applications to open Free Schools. The LA also works closely with the RSC in relation to place sufficiency proposals.

5 The Role of Schools

Schools contribute to the success of the local The LA seeks a professional and mutually respectful community by delivering high quality education, relationship with all its school leaders - with the upholding a sense of moral purpose, and influencing rights of all children to receive the best possible the lives of the next generation of adults. Schools education at the heart of every conversation. The are crucial partners in the realm of local service great majority of Hull schools are Academies and delivery. They hold the future in their hands. are accountable to the Secretary of State, via the RSC. The LA is respectful of their status and seeks The Education Development Trust has identified the to be part of the dialogue where appropriate, in the key dimensions of successful school leadership as: hope that they can add value to the work of the l Defining the vision, values and direction school on behalf of the community.

l Improving conditions for teaching and learning

l Redesigning the organisation: aligning roles and responsibilities

l Enhancing teaching and learning

l Redesigning and enriching the curriculum

l Enhancing teacher quality (including succession planning)

l Building relationships inside the school community

l Building relationships outside the school community

l Placing an emphasis on common values

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The Hull School Landscape

Children and young people in Hull are educated in the following schools (correct as of May 2019):

Trust/Group School Trust/Group School

Academies Enterprise Trust • Hall Road Academy Humber Education Trust • Adelaide Primary School • Newington Academy • Broadacre Primary School • The Green Way Academy • Christopher Pickering Primary School • Kingswood Academy • Clifton Primary School • Maybury Primary School Delta Academies Trust • Craven Primary Academy • Neasden Primary School • Estcourt Primary Academy • Parkstone Primary School • Mersey Primary Academy • St Nicholas Primary School • The Parks Academy • Woodland Primary School • Hull Trinity House Academy • Frederick Holmes • Ganton School • Tweendykes School David Ross Education Trust • Ainthorpe Primary School • Bude Park Primary School • Endike Primary School • Highlands Primary School • Wold Primary Academy • Kingswood Parks Primary School

EBOR Academy Trust • Alderman Cogan's CE Primary Academy • Primary School Horizon Academy Trust • Biggin Hill Primary Academy • Cleeve Primary School • Spring Cottage Primary School Enquire Learning Trust • Buckingham Primary Academy • Thanet Primary School • Primary Academy • Cavendish Primary School • Gillshill Primary School Hull Collaborative Academy Trust • Bellfield Primary School • Collingwood Primary School • Dorchester Primary School Independent Schools • • • Froebel House • Longhill Primary School • Pearson Primary School LA Maintained • St Andrew's CE Primary School • Stockwell Academy • Victoria Dock Primary School • Sutton Park Primary School • Northcott Special School • Thoresby Primary School • Oakfield Special School • Wansbeck Primary School • McMillan Nursery • Westcott Primary School • Wheeler Primary School •

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Trust/Group School Trust/Group School

Sentamu Academy Learning Trust • Newland St John's Church of The Education Alliance • Malet Lambert Academy • St James' CE Primary School Venn Academy Trust • Griffin Primary School • Archbishop Sentamu Academy • Mountbatten Primary School • Aspire Academy • Thorpepark Primary Academy • Compass Academy • Bridgeview Special School • The Boulevard Centre Standalone Academies • Ron Dearing University Technical College • The Sullivan Centre • • Whitehouse PRU • • 14-16 school Yorkshire & Humber • Chiltern Primary School Collaborative Learning Trust • Ings Primary School St Cuthbert’s Catholic • Endsleigh Holy Child Voluntary Catholic • Priory Primary School Academy Trust Academy • Sidmouth Primary School • St Anthony's Voluntary Catholic Academy • St Georges Primary School • St Charles' Voluntary Catholic Academy • Stepney Primary School • St Mary Queen of Martyrs Voluntary • Kelvin Hall Catholic Academy • • St Richard's Voluntary Catholic Academy • Oldfleet Primary School • St Thomas More Voluntary Catholic Academy • St Vincent's Voluntary Catholic Academy Post 16/Further Education • Hull College • St Mary's College • Archbishop Sentamu Sixth Form College • Sixth Form The Constellation Trust • Appleton Primary School • St Mary’s Sixth Form College • Bricknell Primary School • Wilberforce Sixth Form College • Francis Askew Primary School • Wyke Sixth Form College • Paisley Primary School • Hull Adult Training & Education • Rokeby Park Primary School • Primary School • • Sirius Academy West • Rise Academy

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Hull City Council Education Structure

The Council engages with local and regional educators and through the following structure (new structure currently subject to consultation):

Director of Children, Young People & Family Services & Lead Member

Assistant Director (Education)

Music Access & Inclusion SEND Early Years Virtual School Secondary

• Music Hub • Admissions • LA SEND duties • EY standards & sufficiency • Education for Looked after • 11-19 Standards and • Music traded service • Educational Welfare • Educational Psychology • EY inclusion & SEND Children improvement • Exclusions/Behaviour • IPaSS (inc • Primary SIO • Teaching Schools • Attendance HI/VI/PD/LU) • Portage • EHE • Family Information Service • CME • Governors • AP commissioning • Assisted Transport • Reduced timetables

Education Operations

• Mainstream Place Sufficiency • Internal Service Operations • Education Project Support

9 The Education Core Offer to Schools and Academies

The LA will (in addition to compliance with the l Provide SEND advice and Early Help support l Provide school organisation advice and support statutory responsibilities outlined in section 2): (e.g. significant change applications) l Support the sharing of relevant data between l Convene and participate in purposeful education schools to target improvement l Support school self-evaluation by sharing partnerships relevant school data and intelligence l Convene a service ‘Team around the School’ for l Invite leaders to regular information exchange schools and academies of concern and in l Clerk and support a range of Education and consultation meetings with LA senior emergencies Partnerships leadership and partner agencies l Support elected members to fulfil their duties with l Provide safeguarding support and training via regard to education school safeguarding officer and information via the LADO and the DSCB l Attend at Ofsted feedback when invited

l l Provide Early Years advisory support Attend at Headteacher final interviews when invited

Traded Services to Schools and Academies

l Educational Welfare Service l Information Governance l Free School Meals

l Educational Psychology Service l Educational Visits l Heritage Learning

l Data & Analysis l Media l Maternity

l Music Service l Occupational Health l Legal Services

l School Governors Service l Payroll l Safeguarding Audits

l Audit l Pension Advice

l Procurement l Health & Safety

10 Inclusion Statement

moral purpose and passion for inclusion, as well as Our collective vision for inclusion is one where for continuous improvement in outcomes for all potential is unlocked for all learners whatever their Inclusion is everyone’s right, and everyone’s children and young people. This Education Protocol abilities and needs. The LA and the Learning responsibility. LAs have a legal responsibility to recognises the importance of system leadership in Partnership will act as champions of educational champion the needs of the most vulnerable children promoting inclusion and school improvement. In the transformation to ensure the best possible provision and young people, promote educational excellence new educational landscape the Learning for Hull’s children and young people, and will work and ensure fair access to school places for all Partnership, including the LA, and Teaching School together to connect best practice across the learners, but this can only be delivered via genuine Alliances are taking an increasing role in developing educational estate, irrespective of the status of, or and strong partnerships with education leaders system leaders and sharing good practice across governance arrangements in place for, individual across the city. MATs, ensuring that education leaders take schools and academies. Education leaders in Hull are committed to a shared responsibility beyond their own organisations.

11 Hull is committed to achieving quality education for children should be equally valued wherever they l SEND Improvement Strategy all. We will work to ensure that “no child is left access their education. We will strive to eliminate behind and every child gets the best start in life”. We prejudice and discrimination, and to develop an l Attendance Strategy

will take the necessary steps and interventions to environment where all children can achieve, feel l School Place Planning Strategy address areas of concern, including exclusion, safe and included. attendance and attainment. All aspects of education, l Exclusion Protocol All of the city’s six Special Schools are rated by including the curriculum, teaching methods and Ofsted as good or better, as are five of the six Pupil l Fair Access Protocols school culture & environments present opportunities Referral Units. The LA manages the Virtual School for promoting inclusion, and a partnership approach l for Looked After Children which works with schools Children Missing Education is required to ensure that all children and young in the city (and further afield) to support an inclusive people in Hull benefit from the commitment that the l Reduced Timetable Protocol education for the city’s looked after children. city has given to inclusion. Inclusion in Hull, is cross-cutting and is the As partners we are committed to providing an responsibility of all services and partners. Hull’s appropriate, high quality, inclusive education to inclusive approach is delivered via a range of ensure the best possible outcomes for all our pupils, policies and strategies, including (but not limited to): whatever their abilities or needs. We believe that all

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Absence, Exclusions and Elective Home 2016/2017 2017/2018 Aut - 18/19 Aut/Spr - 18/19 2018/19 Aut - 19/20 Education - Termly Reporting:

5.6% 5.5% 5.4% Absence: Pupils with SEN - Primary 5.5% 5.2% 6% (Eng. – 5.5%) (Eng. – 5.7%) (Eng. – 5.6%)

7.9% 7.0% 8.0% Absence - Pupils with SEN - Secondary 6.8% 6.9% 7.8% (Eng. 7.7%) (Eng. – 8.0%) (Eng. – 8.2%)

46% 50% 48% All Exclusions - Pupils with SEN 49% 51% 37% (Eng. 45%) (Eng. 44%) (Eng. – 43%)

38% 35% 29% 30% 30% 28% Elective Home Education (EHE) - SEN (8 EHCP/61 (11 EHCP/71 (12 EHCP/77 (16 EHCP/88 (17 EHCP/97 (20 EHCP/59 SEN-S) SEN-S) SEN-S) SEN-S) SEN-S) SEN-S)

l Primary SEN Absence – although a welcome l SEN exclusions as a percentage of decrease between 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 allexclusions in the city reduced between locally, like for like Autumn Term 2019/2020 data 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. Like for like – reflects a considerable increase on 2018/2019. Autumn 2019/2020 data compares favourably to the preceding year l Secondary SEN Absence - a significant increase between 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 l EHE – the incidence of SEN continued on a brought the city into line with the England positive trend as the 2019/2020 academic year average. A like for like comparison suggests a came to a close. significant increase in Autumn 2019/2020

13 Strategic Education Partnerships in Hull

The appended education partnerships structure shows the range of partnership School Organisation and Place Planning Board: Securing the supply of bodies. Each have their own ToRs & Membership, however a brief summary of sufficient school places, including nursery to 19 provision in an increasingly the key partnership bodies is provided below: autonomous context with a range of providers, and ensuring fair access for admission to school. Learning Partnership: Key partnership body which aims to provide strategic oversight of partnership activity, maximise outcomes and promote life chances Education Standards Board: Monitor and challenge standards across all for children and young people phases in the city. Support priorities for improvement from the existing partnerships. Schools Forum: Statutory body, which has decision making powers re: DSG retention by the LA, delegation of funding and changes to the Scheme of Inclusion and Attendance Board: Develop and monitor the implementation of Financial management. Also consultative powers re: local funding formula, the Inclusion Strategy, focus on attendance, behaviour and exclusions. contracts, arrangements for SEND / AP / Early Years SEND Board and SEND Accountability Forum: Deliver the SEND Music Hub: Ensure compliance with nationally agreed terms of Hub funding, Improvement programme, hold all agencies accountability for delivery of SEND oversight of the Hull Music Service against its agreed business plan. Promotion functions. and celebration of music culture in the city. SACRE: Statutory body to ensure development of RE curriculum, provision of Early Years Board: Oversee sufficiency and quality of provision. Multi-agency locally agreed syllabus and monitor standards of support. monitoring and governance of school readiness. Virtual School GB: Provide oversight for the operation of the Virtual School for Looked After Children.

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Education Reporting Structure

Education Reporting Structure

Council Structure (see page 15)

Better Together for Children Board Hull Safeguarding & Internal CYPFS Directorate Governance Children Board & Structures, including Children’s Community Safety Health and Wellbeing Board Improvement Board where appropriate Partnership

School Early Corporate Learning Organisation & Music Inclusion and SEND Schools Years Parenting SACRE Partnership Place Planning Hub Board Attendance Board Forum Board Board

Education Virtual School Primary Secondary Special/PRU Primary Secondary Standards Sub-groups Governing Sub-Groups Heads Heads Heads Board FAP FAP Body

SEND SEND Delivery Stakeholder Board Board

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Full Council: Adoption of Budget and Policy Framework/Constitution/Appointments to Committees and External Bodies

Statutory and Regulatory The Executive Scrutiny Comissions: Governance Committees Committees Commits resources within budget and Develop policy and reviews exercise of executive Application of council policy upon policy framework set by Full Council powers non-executive and regulatory matters upon matters where the Council is the community decision The Leader Overview and Scrutiny Management Audit Committee maker Responsible for all executive powers Committee Hears requests for review of executive decisions Appointments Committee (call-in) and allocates work to Scrutiny CE Officer Reference Group Commissions Health & Delegates Powers Wellbeing Board

Planning 7 Area Committees Cabinet Health & Wellbeing Finance and Value Committee Executive decision making for Money Appeals Committee to the extent delegated by The Leader and statutory People and Culture and decisions as determined by Executive Licensing Communities Regeneration Independent the Council Sub-Committees Committee Remuneration Panel Early Support and Energy and Lifelong Learning Infrastructure Licensing Executive Sub- Commissioning Committees Committee

Committee in Common (with NHS CCG)

Corporate Trustee Committee

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2020 City Wide School Standards and Demography

Notes:

l l ‘Stat. Neighbours’ refers to the city’s 10 statistical neighbour local authorities Data relating to inspection outcomes from August 2015 to March 2020 is – these are authorities that are deemed to have similar characteristics to the sourced from Ofsted’s ‘Dataview’; September 2020 reflects local data at 14 city and are useful for comparative purposes September 2020. .

l . l Primary school and secondary school absence levels relate to the latest DfE There were no formal assessments in 2020 at any Key Stage published data – 2018/2019 academic year

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“The Council and partners consider the performance of every These factors are used to determine risk and inform school school and academy in the City and assess identified self-evaluation. ‘signatures of risk’.

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