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Conference Stellar names and lively debate Leading policy-makers put on the spot at the FASNA Spring Conference The Spring Conference, attended by over 150 delegates from across the country, once again managed to attract a stellar line-up of speakers. The conference opened with Chris Wormald, the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education. Chris referred to a review of the DfE undertaken last year. This review aimed to help the Department become a “world class service”. He argued that the review was helping the DfE to meet the challenge of continued austerity, the growth of autonomous schools and academies and the need to improve the DfE’s effectiveness. The Department had required serious structural changes to meet a 50% cut in resources. However, the challenge of bringing about a change in the ethos and culture of the Department has been just as difficult. The audience smiled when he said that there needed to be an emphasis on Performance Management of officials (something schools have had to practice for years). Staff are being deployed flexibly and no longer remain in one specialist team. This means that the DfE may not have experts in every field but will seek advice from external experts as needs be. The service needs to be data driven (more smiles from the audience) and decisionmaking has to be leaner – the DfE would do those things that only a Department of State could do, and not focus on things others could do, even if these were valued by the Department. The impact of this on schools is that the Department cannot be a source of advice and support in the way it is Tom Clark, FASNA chair, questions Permanent Secretary Chris Wormald Questions from the audience has been. It sets the framework and leaves autonomous schools to it, only intervening if things go wrong. Chris then took questions from the audience. He surprised delegates by saying that the introduction of Free School Meals for KS1 had been long-planned and not a knee-jerk response born out of coalition politics. He also extolled the need for research-based changes in education, much as there is in the health service. In an echo of Jon Cole’s speech to the Autumn Conference, Chris Wormald compared practice in the Health Service – where there is enormous respect for practitioner’s research who would never seek advice from government on how to do things – to education, where practitioners have too little regard for, or engagement in, their own research. The Permanent Secretary of the DfE was followed by an ‘audience’ with Peter Lauener, the Chief Executive of the Education Funding Agency. Martin Latham, Head of Robinswood and Waterwells Academies and a member of FASNA’s Executive Board, questioned Peter on aspects of funding. Peter wanted Summer 2014 | 39
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