Our FV&WL RIC Strategic Plans
You can access our Forth Valley and West Lothian Regional Improvement Collaborative strategic plan for 2022-2024
Our RIC aims to add value to the service our Local Authorities provide. Our role is to support
our Local Authorities to enhance the educational experience and outcomes for all of our children and young people.
Through collaborate collegiate working we can collectively:-
1. Better support the professional development of our practitioners through enhanced CLPL.
2. Build professional networks to allow our practitioners to collaborate and share best practice.
3. Provide opportunities to broaden and enhance curricular opportunities for all our children and young people.
Given the limited resources of our RIC the main focus of our work will be targeted at those learners who are at the greatest disadvantage through circumstances such as poverty. It is hoped however, that by developing pedagogy and skills, and by building practice sharing networks that all learners in our RIC will benefit from improved pedagogy and broader curricular opportunities.
Our RIC therefore has the following specific aims over the course of this three year plan:-
• To improve the quality of the learning pathways of learners affected by poverty
• To work collaboratively and proportionately to raise the attainment/achievement of learners affected by poverty
• To facilitate support and professional development to support educational recovery and accelerate progress.
Our FV&WL RIC Impact Summary
Click the link to access our full FV& WL RIC Impact report
The aim of our Forth Valley and West Lothian Regional Improvement Collaborative is to reduce the poverty related attainment gap. Reducing the gap however, cannot be achieved with a single action, it requires many interventions and collaborations working in concert to achieve this. For an impact report of one element of the collaborative network trying to support this change it is very difficult to assess the direct impact of your actions. What we can say however, is that our RIC has helped build collaboration, share best practice and has had a role in improving pedagogy. Regional Improvement Collaboratives were built on the idea that by developing collaborative professionalism we could improve pedagogy, enhance the learning experience and improve outcomes for our children and young people. Whilst there is a long way to go, we believe that this report demonstrates that we have impacted positively on practitioner skills and pedagogy and acted as a catalyst, supporting greater collaborative working.
Regional Improvement Collaborative Plan 2019-2022
The Regional Improvement Plan takes account of the following national and local plans and advice for Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian:
- 2019 National Improvement Framework and Improvement Plan for Scottish Education
- Education Reform – Joint Agreement (Scottish Government, June 2018)
- Regional Improvement Collaborative plan 2018-2019
- Local Outcome Improvement Plans
- Integrated Children’s Services Plans
- School Improvement Plans 2019-2020
This phase of the plan has been informed by:
- The review of the Forth Valley & West Lothian Regional Improvement Plan (Phase 2)
- Regional Improvement Collaboratives (RICs): Interim Review, November 2018
