Committee details

Education Attainment Improvement Board

Purpose of committee

Membership

The Membership shall be comprised of:

·         Deputy Executive Leader (Children and Families)

·         5 x Frontline Councillors

·         1 x secondary head teacher (plus nominated substitute)

·         1 x primary head teacher (plus nominated substitute)

·         1 x member of Tameside Governors’ Forum

·         1 x representative of Teachers’ Consultative Committee

 

Chair

·         The Board will be chaired by the Deputy Executive Leader (Children and Families) who has delegated portfolio for dealing with schools.

 

Quorum

The quorum shall be three Members.

 

Terms of Reference

The Education Attainment Improvement Board, appointed by the Council, and comprised of all its Members, shall have responsibility via the Deputy Executive Leader (Children and Families) for ensuring that there is a co-ordinated approach ensuring the best possible progression for children and young people through the education system and on to higher education, training or employment.  More specifically, it will discharge this remit by:-

·         Shaping and testing educational policy and delivering the Council’s priorities and the Community Strategy at a Borough and Greater Manchester level;

·         Ensuring young people have the required skills to engage successfully in the new labour markets and through continuing improvements in attainment, achievement and attendance increase the numbers entering and succeeding in further and higher education, training and employment;

·         Maximising economic growth and reducing dependency on public services through public sector reform, including reforming the early years and education and skills systems;

·         Ensuring that academies and free schools that become established in the borough operate in a way that fully delivers the vision for our young people;

·         Transforming the quality and effectiveness of school governance and leadership as a key lever of improvement;

·         Supporting the Tameside family of schools to manage the national frameworks of curriculum, external inspection, changing standards and funding reform and determine their own governance arrangements in partnership with the Council;

·         Addressing the on-going increased demand for school places driven by the growing and diverse Manchester population.

 

The Board will do this by:

·         Providing a vision and direction for education in the Borough;

·         Monitoring the performance of schools and other providers aimed at raising standards;

·         Using the outcomes of inspections of data from all forms of assessment to keep under review the quality of education being delivered and facilitate access to improvement, support and attainment;

·         Supporting integrated working for vulnerable children and young people to deliver a more holistic approach to supporting their educational attainment and progress including looked after children, pupils with special educational needs and those attending pupil referral units;

·         To ensure the speedy admission and fair distribution of pupils with agreed additional needs through the fair access protocol and place planning.

Membership

Contact information

Support officer: Charlotte Forrest, Senior Democratic Services Officer. 0161 342 2346 or Email: charlotte.forrest@tameside.gov.uk