DfE reveals first RISE advisers

The Department for Education has released the names of 20 advisers working in new Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) teams
3rd February 2025, 11:48am

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DfE reveals first RISE advisers

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DfE reveals first RISE advisers

The Department for Education has released the names of its new Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) advisers today.

The advisers will work with civil servants as part of the RISE teams that will support schools, with their work “strongly informed” by Ofsted report cards.

Ofsted has today published its report card plans, which would see schools inspected across at least nine different areas.

Based on the findings of the report cards, schools will be placed into one of three categories: those with minimal issues with strong capacity requiring “universal support”; those with one or several issues needing “targeted support”; and those requiring intervention.

The RISE teams will play a role in supporting schools in the first two categories. 

In a speech this morning, education secretary Bridget Phillipson said Ofsted’s proposals, which are out for consultation, will “swap single headline grades for the rich, granular insight of school report cards”.

She added: “Never will we go back to the dark days of weak accountability”, when it was “the children from disadvantaged backgrounds who suffered the most”.

All those appointed a RISE adviser have an “extensive educational experience and a track record of improving schools”, the government has said.

The vast majority are from multi-academy trusts.

Sir Kevan Collins, the DfE’s lead non-executive director, said the department “did some direct appointments” for the first 20 RISE advisers “to get this thing moving quickly”.

Around 80 per cent of applicants for the adviser positions have come from trusts “who want to give time to support other schools”, he added.

More details on RISE teams, and changes to the school accountability system, are expected today.

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