To approve the Education, development and skills strategy (appendix a) and the Herefordshire school improvement partnership delivery model (appendix b).

The strategy sets out how Herefordshire Council will work with partners, including school and college leaders, early years’ settings, external agencies such as Ofsted and the Department for Education (DfE) and the range of multi-agencies within Herefordshire to raise standards of achievement for children and young people in our county.

The delivery model sets out how improvement will be taken forward by the partnership across the county. The council aims to continue its approach of supported autonomy for schools and settings that has recently positively impacted on educational outcomes with rising standards in the primary phase over recent years.  Close working with the county’s accredited teaching schools is key to developing schools’ pedagogy and practice.