Labour pans for “super teacher hit squads” are a “first-aid approach” to school improvement and will muddy accountability, say sector experts.
Sir Keir Starmer, the party’s leader, has pledged to create new regional improvement teams to “end the scandal of ‘stuck’ schools”.
These teams, which will answer to the Department for Education’s regions group, will “work as partners with schools in responding to areas of weakness identified in new school report cards”, which will replace graded Ofsted judgments.
The party said the teams would “bring together oversight of improvement programmes and work with teachers so that schools know what support is available and enable schools to work together to improve standards”.
