Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will be used by regional improvement for standards and excellence teams to identify the schools it will be engaging with to deliver improvement in standards.

The department has introduced its new regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) teams to help drive high and rising standards. In advance of Ofsted school report cards being introduced later this year, schools will be eligible to receive bespoke RISE interventions if they have not had a change of structure since their last inspection, and:

• were previously due to receive structural intervention after 1 January
• are a ‘stuck’ school – defined as a school that was graded requires improvement, or equivalent based on sub-judgements, at their most recent Ofsted inspection, and were also graded below good at their previous inspection; or
• are in a category of concern.

The department is consulting on future eligibility criteria for targeted RISE intervention following the introduction of new Ofsted school report cards.