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Welcome to the Freedoms and Flexibilities website
This area will focus on highlighting a broad range of freedoms and flexibilities that schools could take up. More information can also be found within the Innovation Unit area of the Standards Site.
The 2002 Education Act, made provision for the establishment of an Earned Autonomy scheme. This would allow schools meeting specified performance and leadership criteria additional freedoms and flexibilities in the areas of teachers' pay and conditions and the national curriculum on an indefinite basis, provided the school continues to meet the qualifying criteria.
However, the Government is not currently operating an Earned Autonomy scheme. Instead, it has taken a number of steps to extend autonomy across the school system more generally for example;
- changes to the curriculum at Key Stage 4 set out in the strategy document 14-19: Opportunity and Excellence will enable schools to respond more flexibly to the needs of their pupils.
- we have established the Implementation Review Unit – a panel of serving head teachers and other school staff to identify areas where schools can be freed from bureaucracy and red tape.
- the Power to Innovate offers all schools the chance to apply for innovative projects which would otherwise be blocked by education legislation.
The Government wants to promote greater autonomy and professional empowerment across the system as a whole.
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