Home visitors work in partnership with parents offering carefully structured play based activities to promote learning and development. Primary Schools Redbridge has 52 primary schools. Redbridge primary schools are large in comparison with primary schools nationally. The key role of the advisory and inspection service is to help schools improve and to raise standards across the borough. A programme to achieve these objectives, based on an audit of existing strengths and weaknesses, is set out in the Redbridge Education Development Plan .
Support is offered in a number of ways.
For example courses for teachers are organised, advisers contribute to the governors' training programme and a range of publications is produced. Information about how schools and groups of pupils are performing is gathered together. The interpretation of this information assists schools with target-setting and forms an increasingly important part of advisers' quality assurance work. Advisers meet and talk with both teachers and pupils on their visits to schools. In that all advisers are Ofsted-trained inspectors, they are often called upon to observe lessons and to identify what standards are being achieved.