Memorandum submitted by Hilary Pitts,
Director of Children Services, Swindon Borough Council
1. What investigations have been undertaken
in 2007 to ensure that the application of the Annual Performance
Assessment criteria has resulted in consistent judgements across
all Local Authorities? In particular, in Authorities where Key
Stage 2 and/or Key Stage 4 are below the national average, have
all those Local Authorities been graded as "adequate"?
2. What investigations have been undertaken
to ensure that Local Authorities who have made representations
around the judgements made, are not significantly over-representative
of non-Labour controlled Councils?
3. If no analysis has been completed, could
the Select Committee request that investigations are undertaken
and published, in order to improve Local Authority and public
confidence in the impartiality and thoroughness of the current
process for Annual Performance Assessment undertaken by Ofsted?
December 2007
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