Help us to co-produce a new Education Strategy for Warwickshire
Councillor Colin Hayfield, County Council Portfolio Holder for Education and Learning, says; ‘We have given a lot of thought to providing this document as a ‘starter for ten’ but we want the end product to look far less bureaucratic. We are truly serious about co-producing this Education Strategy; the Council is a partner round the table with headteachers and education leaders. It is your voice that we want to hear, so that you will join with us in writing the final version’.
We have listened to headteachers. We have scrutinised data, information, compliments and complaints. We have considered strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats. As a result, we are proposing the following priorities for Education in Warwickshire:
WE1: Promoting the best possible start in life through early education
WE2: Unlocking talent, building resilience, and fulfilling the potential of our vulnerable learners:
- Children out of school
- Children at risk of under-achieving
- Children who are Looked After, through the Virtual School
- Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- People with social, emotional and mental health needs
WE3: Supporting successful system leadership, empowering education communities, so that Warwickshire’s Family of Schools can thrive, there are sufficient good/outstanding school places, and outcomes for Warwickshire’s children exceed national levels.
WE4: Promoting employability; offering the best possible opportunities for all learners so that the local economy can grow, young people can take on the responsibilities of adult life and adult learners contribute to a growing local economy.
In order to work towards these aims, we think we should:
- Champion
- Challenge
- Empower
What do you think? Please tell us; if you were setting out an Education Strategy for Warwickshire, what would you include?
The online consultation is open from 5 March – 2 April 2018.
Please tell your staff, parents, students…. we want to hear from a wide range of stakeholders. We will be bringing the draft Vision and Strategy to meetings through March. We have also set up some face to face focus groups with staff, parents, secondary students, primary pupils and pupils in a special school.
Please visit our questionnaire at www.warwickshire.gov.uk/ask to register your comments.
You can also contact us by telephone: 01926 742588 or by email educationstrategy@warwickshire.gov.uk