Question reference: S2W-30182
- Asked by: James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 27 November 2006
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Current status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 7 December 2006
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, following its commitment in Ambitious, Excellent Schools to “publish a performance report on the National Priorities, by 2006, to assess the performance of each local authority since 2003”, when this report will be published and what other methods it has in place to assess local authorities’ performance.
Answer
HM Inspectorate ofEducation’s recent publications Improving Scottish Education and ImprovingScottish Education: Effectiveness of Education Authorities fulfilthis Ambitious, Excellent Schools commitment. Copies of both reports areavailable in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 38934 and41128 respectively). Local authority performance in respect of their educationfunctions is subject to regular inspection by HM Inspectorate of Education. Inspectionis supplemented by regular dialogue between officials and Directors ofEducation.