Contractor Outcomes. BCC expects the Contractor to deliver improvement for all Birmingham pupils and across all Birmingham schools– delivering or brokering school improvement activity for maintained schools and taking a role in the co-ordination of system led improvement. The Council recognise performance may be impacted by changes in assessment and school performance measures. It is evident that performance indicators will need to be revised in light of those changes and this will form part of the contract management process. The outcomes are: • Birmingham children are increasingly attending good or outstanding schools – achieving incremental improvement year on year relative to the core cities, statistical Inspection of the local authority arrangements for school improvement Ofsted will assess the quality of local authority education functions in relation to promoting improvement, high standards and the fulfilment of educational potential of children and young people in schools. Ofsted recognises that the configuration of school improvement functions will be diverse and relevant to local circumstances. Ofsted has no fixed view on the configuration of such functions, but will focus on their impact, strengths and weaknesses. Ofsted recognises that local authorities are discharging their statutory duties within the context of increasing autonomy of schools. It is also the case that improvement should be led by schools themselves within a framework of accountability. In particular, Ofsted will evaluate: • the effectiveness of corporate and strategic leadership of school improvement • the clarity and transparency of policy and strategy for supporting school improvement and how clearly the local authority has defined its monitoring, challenge, support and intervention roles • the extent to which the local authority knows schools and, where appropriate, other providers, their performance and the standards they achieve and how effectively support is focused on areas of greatest need • the effectiveness of the local authority’s identification of, and intervention in, underperforming maintained schools, including, where applicable, the use of formal powers available to the local authority • the impact of local authority support and challenge over time and the rate at which schools and other providers are improving, including impact of the local authority strategy to narrow attainments gaps • the extent to which the local authority brokers and/or commissions high quality support for ma...
