• Excellence through raising attainment and improving outcomes. 

• Achieving equity: ensuring every child and young person has the same opportunity to succeed.  

Key priorities of the National Improvement Framework: 

• Placing the human rights and needs of every child and young person at the centre of education. 

• Improvement in children and young people’s health and wellbeing. 

• Closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children and young people. 

• Improvement in skills and sustained, positive school-leaver destinations for all young people. 

• Improvement in attainment, particularly in literacy and numeracy. 

• School and ELC leadership. 

• Teacher and practitioner professionalism. 

• Parent/carer involvement and engagement. 

• Curriculum and assessment. 

• School and ELC improvement. 

• Performance information. 

Scottish Attainment Challenge: framework for recovery and accelerating progress. 

Scottish Attainment Challenge Logic Model – Tackling the Poverty-Related Attainment Gap – Our Theory of Change. 

SAC Organisers: 

• Learning and teaching. 

• Leadership. 

• Families and communities. 

3 main themes: 

1. Health and wellbeing 

• Learning and teaching 

• Self-evaluation 

Priorities:  

1. Child protection 

• Mental Health and Wellbeing 

• Involving young people 

• Reducing poverty and disadvantage 

3 priorities: 

1. Cost of living crisis and the underlying causes of poverty 

• Sustainable development 

• Addressing inequalities