11/01/2016

The National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education is central in driving work to continually improve Scottish education and close the attainment gap.

The current priorities for the National Improvement Framework are:

•  Improvement in attainment, particularly in literacy and numeracy;
• Closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children;
• Improvement in children and young people’s health and wellbeing; and
• Improvement in employability skills and sustained, positive school leaver destinations for all young people;

Everyone working in Scottish education should be clear about what they are seeking to achieve in making their contribution to addressing these priorities. There may be further improvement priorities at school level, based on local needs and self-evaluation.

The priorities may change over time, depending on what the evidence is telling us. Indeed, we expect they will as issues are addressed successfully and new priorities emerge.