The offer focuses on matching eligible schools with system leaders from schools and trusts who can help leaders identify short term improvement actions and priorities to ensure there is sustainable improvement capacity in the long-term.

Support will be sought for a maintained school or a school within a trust with any of the following criteria:

• The school receives an Ofsted ‘requires improvement’ judgement during the 2021 to 2022 academic year
• The school enters the 2021 to 2022 academic year with a current ‘requires improvement’ judgement for overall effectiveness where their previous judgement was also ‘requires improvement’ or worse

In addition, and by exception, if a school does not meet these criteria but identifies as needing support or the Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC) judges that they are in need, they should contact school.improvement@education.gov.uk and we will consider whether support can be provided.