Minutes:
Johnny Kyriacou reported on the following matters:
· Rachel Gallyot had been appointed as Senior Standards and Effectiveness Officer, to work 4 days per week from September 2017, specialising in primary standards.
· The Senior Education Liaison Officer link is to be filled by Rachel Cross, on secondment from St Mary’s CE Primary School on two days per week. The link role is between the LA and the school-to-school support strand of the Slough Teaching School Alliance now in place.
· A local School Improvement Fund had been set up with a budget of £150,000, with access to the fund via a bidding process. The aim is to provide fair access to funding for as many schools as possible.
· A national Strategic School Improvement Fund had been initiated, inviting large scale bids demonstrating, where possible, collaboration between teaching school networks and Local Authorities. With a deadline for first round bids of 23 June 2017, a bid had been made to support middle leadership development in around 50 - 60 schools across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire which met the strict eligibility criteria. Six Slough schools had been included. A DfE decision on the bids was awaited.