The Sea View Trust’s Chief Executive Officer, Angela Holdsworth MBE, was named yesterday as one of 20 new school improvement advisors appointed by the Department for Education.  Angela was approached directly to carry out this role and more will be selected through a formal recruitment process by April.

As part of the new regional improvement teams, known as RISE teams, Angela will work alongside schools to drive the improvements needed to ensure that every child, regardless of their background, has the education they deserve.  RISE teams will deliver “a bespoke package of challenge and support to target areas of weakness identified in Ofsted report cards, instead of moving directly to structural change”. 

From this month, RISE teams will deliver “targeted intervention” to the more than 600 ‘stuck’ schools, educating more than 300,000 pupils.

Stuck schools are defined as those graded ‘requires improvement’ at their most recent inspection and also graded below ‘good’ at their previous one.

Government said they “need to do more to speed up improvement in these schools”.

Louise Parrish has been internally seconded as Deputy CEO for two days per week for the period that Angela is working with the DfE.