Guidelines

Assessment will be based in each case on a portfolio of evidence provided by the school to support their application.

Generic Evidence - The school should:
  1. demonstrate its strategic commitment to and development of work with families by highlighting the relevant sections of its School Plan (e.g. judicial use of the highlighter pen, or "cut and paste" of extracts from the Plan).

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  2. detail the success criteria that it uses to gauge whether its work with families is successful or not and give some idea of its current assessment of its progress.

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  3. demonstrate the processes it has introduced so as to ensure that work with families is a 'whole school' approach rather than being fragmented and not wholly effective across all the school's activities.

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  4. demonstrate how it strives to ensure that all families and parents are included in its work, not only those easiest to engage and to make contact with.

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  5. summarise those extended activities that enhance its work with families and specify those partner agencies that contribute to this aspect of the work.
Activity specific evidence - The school should

provide for each of the 25 activities:
  1. the appropriate evidence of the success of the activity

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  2. assessment of its impact on children and young people, families and the school.
Most of this is already available in their SEF/school plan but if additional work has to be done to prepare for IiF that can also be lodged in the documentation prepared for Ofsted.

In addition, the school produces an action plan that ensures development over the ensuing two years between assessments.'

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