Universal RISE Offer

Regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) aims to break the link between young people’s backgrounds and their future success.

Every school is a RISE school, whether through universal resources that connect them with best practice and peer support, or targeted help for schools facing particular challenges.  

At the core of RISE are the RISE advisers, who are educational experts with direct experience of improving schools. RISE advisers work as part of a wider RISE team within the Department for Education (DfE).

RISE teams will operate at 2 levels:

• through Universal RISE – empowering all schools to grow and share great practice
• providing bespoke targeted interventions to schools with the greatest barriers to improvement

For the Universal RISE service, RISE teams will work across all schools to:

• signpost effective practice
• encourage peer-to-peer support
• bring schools together to share knowledge and innovation

For Targeted RISE intervention, RISE advisers will engage with the eligible school and its responsible body to consider the school’s specific improvement needs.

Where appropriate, RISE teams will arrange for a high-quality organisation to work with a school to support improvement. RISE teams will be able to draw on funds to support this activity. RISE teams are regularly reviewing progress and engagement with the targeted intervention.

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