| Support
for School
Improvement |
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| Inspection includes the following areas of activity:
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 | the extent to which the
LEA has defined monitoring, challenge and
intervention, and shared those understandings with
schools; |
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| the extent to which the
LEA’s support to schools is focused on areas of
greatest need; |
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| the effectiveness of the
LEA’s work in monitoring schools and challenging
them to improve, including the use made of performance
data; |
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| the effectiveness of the
LEA’s identification of, and intervention in,
under-performing schools; |
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| the extent to which the
LEA is successfully implementing national strategies
to raise pupils’ achievement, including in:
 | literacy |
| numeracy |
| information and
communication technology (ICT) |
| Key Stage 3 |
| schools facing
challenging circumstances; |
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| the extent to which the
LEA is supporting schools in raising standards of
ethnic minority and Traveller children, including the
effective deployment of grants such as the Ethnic
Minority and Traveller Achievement Grants; |
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| the extent to which the
LEA is supporting schools in the provision they make
for gifted and talented pupils; |
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| the LEA’s support for
school leadership and management, including support
for schools’ efforts to achieve best value; |
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| the LEA’s support to
school governors; |
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| the effectiveness of the
LEA’s services to support school management
(including financial services, human resources, and
services for ICT in school administration); |
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| the extent to which the
LEA is successful in assuring the supply and quality
of teachers. |
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