Question follow-through · 22550

Education: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 18093 on Education: Access, what progress the Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence teams are making on engaging with schools.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
9 Jan 2025
Answer
15 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 18093 on Education: Access, what progress the Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence teams are making on engaging with schools.

  2. 9 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The new Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) teams will begin in early 2025, with their first RISE advisers in post this January.Once established, RISE teams will engage schools to facilitate networking and sharing best practice, bring...

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