Department for Children, Schools and Families: consultation results

National Curriculum Review - Call for Evidence

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:00:00 GMT

The results of the National Curriculum Review can be found by clicking here.

Revised Statutory Guidance on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Director of Children's Services and the Lead Member for Children's Services

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:15:00 GMT

Proposed changes to performance management and capability arrangements for teachers

Tue, 24 May 2011 08:15:00 GMT

Proposed changes to teacher performance management and capability arrangements

The current arrangements for teacher and head teacher performance management are set out in: The Education (School Teacher Performance Management) (England) Regulations 2006 which came into force in September 2007. They are extremely detailed and prescriptive, and allow schools very little scope for agreeing policies that meet their own particular needs.

The School Staffing Regulations 2009 require school governing bodies to have procedures for dealing with staff capability issues. When dealing with capability issues for teachers, schools must have regard to statutory guidance. The current guidance takes the form of a model capability procedure which was issued in 2000. The procedure pre-dated the current performance management arrangements, and there are areas of overlap and duplication between the two.

The White Paper "The Importance of Teaching" set out plans to shorten and simplify current teacher performance management regulations, and remove the duplication between current performance management and capability procedures.

This consultation sought views on revised performance management arrangements that were designed to strip out unnecessary prescription, support school leaders in dealing with underperformance quickly, and give schools much greater freedom to design their own teacher appraisal policies. It offered a new optional model policy that combined appraisal and capability into one coherent procedure that is consistent with the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures and it raised wider questions about other barriers to tackling the underperformance of teachers, and the timing of implementation.

250 responses were received from a range of stakeholders including head teachers, teachers, governors, local authorities and professional associations.

Next steps

New arrangements for teacher and head teacher appraisals in maintained schools in England, and for dealing with underperforming teachers were announced on 13 January 2012. Details are available at http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/leadership/deployingstaff

Click here to read the analysis of responses to the consultation document

Qualifications for 14-16 year olds and Performance Tables

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:45:00 GMT

The full response to the consultation on 14-16 qualifications and performance tables has now been published and can be viewed by clicking here.

Ensuring Good Behaviour in Schools: Guidance for Governing Bodies, Head teachers, School Staff and Employers

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:00:00 GMT

The advice and guidance documents referred to in the consultation summary are available via the links below. The document Ensuring Good Behaviour - Summary of Consultation Responses is available below.

Guidance and advice on behaviour and discipline

Advice on preventing and tackling bullying

Guidance on dealing with allegations of abuse

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) consultation about the transfer of responsibility for the registration of independent schools and the regulation of independent and non-maintained special schools (NMSSs) to Ofsted

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:00:00 GMT

Bailey Review on the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood (Industry and Wider Stakeholder Version)

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:30:00 GMT

The following report - Letting Children be Children - Report of an Independent Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood can be viewed here

Bailey Review on the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood (Parents and carers version)

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:45:00 GMT

The following report - Letting Children be Children - Report of an Independent Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood can be viewed here

Global Learning Strategy

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT

Thank you for responding to the Global Learning Strategy Consultation, however due to the changes in government, administration and the Spending Review this policy was not taken forward.

Key Stage 2 Testing and Accountability Review - Call for Evidence

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:00:00 GMT

The Final Report of Lord Bew's Review into testing, assessment and accountability at Key Stage 2 and the report on the online call for evidence are available to download from www.education.gov.uk/ks2review.