Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools she plans for each regional improvement for standards and excellence team to support in (a) the North East and (b) each region, per year.

The department expects regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) teams to have worked with around 600 schools by March 2026. RISE teams will focus their efforts on schools which are stuck and have not had a change of structure since their last inspection.

Based on the latest published Ofsted inspection data, at the end of December 2024, there were 664 “stuck schools” in England and 31 “stuck schools” in the North East.

Across the other regions there were:

• 90 in the East Midlands
• 71 in the East of England
• 18 in London
• 104 in the North West
• 72 in the South East
• 102 in the South West
• 97 in the West Midlands
• 79 in Yorkshire and Humber

Following last week’s announcement, the department is contacting all responsible bodies with schools that currently meet the eligibility criteria.