This session explored the current state of the education landscape, including key themes and emerging risks.

1. Education law conference
March 2017, London
Mapping out the future landscape of education

2. Mapping out the future
landscape of education
Prospects & priorities over the next 12 months
1st March, London
Nick MacKenzie
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3. Session overview
• State of the ‘room’
• Key themes
• Emerging risks

4. School Leaders Survey 2016

5. Question:

6. Question:

7. Question:
Taking into account external factors, how do you assess
the educational prospects of the children/young people at
your organisation/group compared with 12 months ago?
Very
positive
Positive Neither
negative or
positive
Negative Very
negative
Don't know
/ Unsure
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%

8. Question:
Taking into account external factors, how do you assess the financial
prospects of your organisation / group compared with 12 months ago?
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Very
positive
Positive Neither
negative or
positive
Negative Very
negative
Don't know
/ Unsure

9. Join in with Sli-do
Question:
To what extent is implementing curriculum changes likely to be a
priority for you over the next 12 months?
• major priority
• priority
• not a priority
• don’t know/ unsure

10. Join in with Sli-do
Question:
To what extent is staff restructuring likely to be a priority for you
over the next 12 months?
• major priority
• priority
• not a priority
• don’t know/ unsure

11. Join in with Sli-do
Question:
To what extent is creating/joining/growing a school group likely
to be a priority for you over the next 12 months?
• major priority
• priority
• not a priority
• don’t know/ unsure

12. Question:

13. Key theme 1
accountability & regulation
tendency to bureaucracy?

14. Key theme 2
leadership
how do we foster?

15. Key theme 3
central services
do we have an effective ‘corporate centre’?

16. Key theme 4
increased interventions
&‘re-brokering’
do we have a resilient operating model?

17. Key theme 5
talent management
do we develop the different
type of talent we will need?

18. 1. Are we moving to a robust operating model that is resilient to
shocks, including “re-brokering” of one or more of our academies?
2. Are we moving to a leadership & staffing model that does not
rigidly treat each school as a building that must have a head, SBM
etc?
3. How effective is our recruitment & talent management strategy?
Emerging risks (1)

19. 4. How will we improve attainment with the challenges NFF
presents? What mitigations are we deploying now?
5. With continued constraint in the public sector how do we avoid
“mission creep” in the face of increasing number of agendas
(Prevent, keeping children safe, ensuring mental wellbeing,
tackling obesity etc)?
6. Are we moving to a way of working that is able to effectively
manage service delivery & risk across multi-site operations?
Emerging risks (2)

20. Any questions?

21. Find out more
www.brownejacobson.com/education

22. Talk to us
Nick MacKenzie | 0121 237 4564 | nick.mackenzie@brownejacobson.com
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