Yellow Support Category A school in this category may receive up to 10 days of Challenge Adviser time. Amber Support Category A school in this category may receive up to 15 days of Challenge Adviser time. Red Support Category A school in this category may receive up to 25 days of Challenge Adviser time. The school will automatically receive a letter from the Local Authority where appropriate statutory powers may be invoked. In ERW, the support may exceed or be less than the allocation noted but will include support from other staff in LAs, ERW or other schools. This will include a proportionate response according to school need and size. In line with national and regional priorities, we will focus support on: building a self improving system; reducing the impact of poverty on attainment; capacity to respond to Successful Futures and new curricular and pedagogy including literacy, numeracy and digital competence; and leadership.
School support category - Yellow Level of support Level of intervention/ brokered support Support Way forward Schools will be advised and supported on key priorities for improvement. Schools submit SER, SDP and other relevant documents to LA. Challenge Adviser reviews the documentation and provides feedback to the school’s SLT and Chair of Governors as appropriate. Specific areas for improvement are agreed. Improvement planning to include LA minimum support and, where necessary, additional commissioned support from existing school resource. A bespoke programme of support agreed between the school and Challenge Adviser according to areas for development identified in CSV1. School improvement planning will be monitored to ensure that it identifies actions and resources that will lead to improved standards and / or leadership and provision as appropriate Jointly agreed brokered support according to SER and SIP where necessary. 10 support days, to include: the core entitlement as outlined for green schools; and an agreed programme of follow-up support, challenge and intervention work which is focussed on improving pupil outcomes and / or leadership and provision as appropriate. NOTE Where there is a between the first and second judgements (standards and capacity to improve respectively), the programme of support must be planned according to the main areas that need to be improved, i.e. the weakest judgement. Schools will be challenged to become self-improving schools and move into the green category. These schools may be used to provide school-to-school support. In some cases, these schools may receive school-to-school support from schools in the green category to support their ongoing improvement.
Appendix 1: ERW Ladder of Support, Challenge and Intervention Visits 2017 – 2018 – Myth Busting ERW Ladder of Support, Challenge and Intervention Visits 2017 – 2018 ERW’s work in schools is…. an opportunity to work collaboratively alongside schools to support their school an opportunity to discuss the school’s strengths and areas for development in Teaching and Learning and Leadership; an opportunity to validate the school’s own evaluation; an opportunity to agree further ongoing support; ERW’s work in schools is not…. a mini or mock-inspection; to prepare schools for inspection; we will not allow schools to use evidence from these visits as a basis for, or as part of, any informal or formal competency procedures; aiming to take teachers beyond three lesson observations per year.