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Radical Reforms

During the past decade international commentators and researchers have likened
England to a science laboratory where the rate of experimentation has developed
at a frenetic pace. Some governments have watched this situation with interest
but from a distance, others have attempted to transfer policies and interventions
across geographical and cultural boundaries. The current political climate would
suggest this trend is likely to continue. Focusing on education as a major area
of public policy in England, this book explores a decade of rapid and intensive
modernization and draws out the lessons for those concerned with developing
education systems across the globe.
In 1997 New Labour set out to transform the public sector in general, and
education in particular. This book focuses specifically on reform in key areas:

• Standards and accountability

• Workforce reform
• Choice and diversity
• Every Child Matters and beyond.

The first decade of New Labour governments has produced reforms that are
subject to debate with arguments that range from centralized interference in
professional practice and the lives of children, through to recognition of major
investment to create opportunities for inclusion and to modernize the system.
Drawing on the framework which New Labour has developed to assess the
approaches to and outcomes of interventions and the extent to which policies
can deliver promised transformations, the authors present a critical account of
reform by studying examples of policies, and conceptualizing the interplay of
policy, practice and research.
This book will be of interest to researchers in education, education policy
and school leadership in the UK and beyond.

Dr Christopher Chapman is a Reader in Educational Leadership and School

Improvement in the School of Education at the .

Professor Helen M. Gunter is Chair of Educational Policy, Leadership and

Management in the School of Education at the University of Manchester.
Radical Reforms
Perspectives on an era of
educational change

Edited by
Christopher Chapman
and Helen M. Gunter
First published 2009
by Routledge
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by Christopher Chapman and Helen M. Gunter.
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Includes bibliographical references.
1. Educational change—Great Britain. 2. Education and state—
Great Britain. 3. Educational accountability—Great Britain.
4. Educational leadership—Great Britain. I. Chapman,
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Contents

Notes on contributors vii

List of abbreviations xiii

1 A decade of New Labour reform of education 1

HELEN M. GUNTER AND CHRISTOPHER CHAPMAN

2 Labouring to lead 14
ANDY HARGREAVES

3 Accountability for improvement: rhetoric or reality? 28

DANIEL MUIJS AND CHRISTOPHER CHAPMAN

4 Control and response in primary school teachers’ work 42

ROSEMARY WEBB

5 Raising standards: what is the evidence? 56

JOANNA BRAGG AND BILL BOYLE

6 School leaders: meeting the challenge of change 67

GILLIAN FORRESTER AND HELEN M. GUNTER

7 Remodelling and distributed leadership: the case of

the school business manager 80
CHARLOTTE WOODS

8 Initial Teacher Education: a(nother) decade of radical

reform 91
OLWEN MCNAMARA

9 New provisions of schooling 104

DENIS MONGON AND CHRISTOPHER CHAPMAN
vi Contents
10 Networking a more equitable educational future?
Rhetorics and realities 117
ANDY HOWES AND JO FRANKHAM

11 Personalized learning 128

MEL WEST AND DANIEL MUIJS

12 ‘Swing, swing together’: multi-agency work in the new

children’s services 141
ALAN DYSON, PETER FARRELL, KIRSTIN KERR AND
NADINE MEARNS

13 New Labour and breaking the education and poverty

link: a conceptual account of its educational policies 155
DAVE HALL AND CARLO RAFFO

14 Using research to foster inclusion and equity within

the context of New Labour education reforms 169
MEL AINSCOW, ALAN DYSON, SUE GOLDRICK AND
KIRSTIN KERR

15 Debating New Labour education policy 182

JOHN SMYTH AND HELEN M. GUNTER

16 Reflections on reform: perspectives and challenges 196

CHRISTOPHER CHAPMAN AND HELEN M. GUNTER

Appendix 209

Notes 219
References 223
Index 250
Notes on contributors

Mel Ainscow is Professor of Education and co-director of the Centre for

Equity in Education (CEE) at the . He is also
the Government’s Chief Adviser for the Greater Manchester Challenge, a
£50 million initiative to improve educational outcomes for all young people
in the region. Previously a headteacher, local education authority (LEA)
inspector and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Mel’s work attempts
to explore connections between inclusion, teacher development and school
improvement. A particular feature of this research involves the development
and use of participatory methods of inquiry that set out to make a direct
impact on thinking and practice in systems, schools and classrooms. Mel is
consultant to UNESCO, UNICEF and Save the Children, and is Marden
Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Two recent
books are Improving Urban Schools (Open University Press, 2006, co-edited
with Mel West) and Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion (Routledge, 2006,
with Tony Booth, Alan Dyson and colleagues).
Bill Boyle is Professor of Educational Assessment and the Director of the
Centre for Formative Assessment Studies in the School of Education at the
. He leads international assessment developments
for the World Bank, Department for International Development and
UNESCO, and since 1989 has been an adviser to the Qualifications and
Curriculum Authority (QCA) on national assessment strategies in England.
He has authored 75 practitioner and academic books and is currently involved
in primary leadership research and development in Vietnam for the World
Bank.
Joanna Bragg is Senior Researcher in the Centre for Formative Assessment
Studies, University of Manchester. Since 1992, she has worked on a range
of externally funded research projects. For ten years (1997–2007) she worked
on the QCA funded School Sampling Project, subsequently the Monitoring
Curriculum and Assessment project, and produced a series of reports, conference
papers and journal articles that focus on curriculum trends (in particular
allocation of teaching time and curriculum priorities), performance relating
to disadvantage in primary and secondary schools and the impact of national
viii Notes on contributors
testing on the school curriculum. Most recently, Joanna has been involved
in research funded by the National College of School Leadership (NCSL),
one project to examine New Models of School Leadership and the other to
evaluate the longer-term impact of the Bursar Development Programme
(BDP).
Christopher Chapman is Reader in Educational Leadership and School
Improvement in the School of Education at the .
Recent books include Improving Schools through External Intervention
(Continuum, 2006) and Effective Leadership for School Improvement
(RoutledgeFalmer, 2003, with Alma Harris, Christopher Day, Mark
Hadfield, David Hopkins and Andy Hargreaves). Christopher is involved in
a number of externally funded research and development projects focusing
on issues related to educational leadership. He is grant holder for the NCSL
longitudinal study of new models of leadership effectiveness and improvement
in urban and challenging contexts. Christopher is also Programme Director
for the MEd in Educational Leadership and School Improvement at the
.
Alan Dyson is Professor of Education in the where
he co-directs the Centre for Equity in Education and leads work on education
in urban contexts. His research interests are in the relationship between social
and educational inclusion and, particularly, in the relationship between edu-
cation and other areas of public policy in urban contexts. Recent studies
include the national evaluation of full-service extended schools for the
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and a study of school
governing bodies in disadvantaged areas for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
His publications (with colleagues) include Schools and Area Regeneration (Policy
Press, 2003), Housing and Schooling (York Publishing Services, 1999), School,
Family, Community (Youth Work Press, 1999) and Improving Schools, Developing
Inclusion (Routledge, 2006). He also led the production of theOpen File on
Inclusive Education for UNESCO. Alan has worked in universities since 1988.
Prior to that, he spent 13 years as a teacher, mainly in urban comprehensive
schools.
Peter Farrell is the Sarah Fielden Professor of Special Needs and Educational
Psychology, , and former President of the
International School Psychology Association. He has directed or co-directed
a number of projects for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
and DCSF. These include projects on the role of learning support assistants,
the education of children with medical needs, the relationship between
inclusion and pupil achievement in mainstream schools and the role of
educational psychologists. Two recent books are Making Special Education
Inclusive: From Research to Practice (Fulton, 2002, co-edited with Mel Ainscow)
and A Psychology for Inclusive Education (Routledge, 2008, co-edited with
Peter Hick and Ruth Kershner).
 Notes on contributors ix
Gillian Forrester is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies in the Faculty of
Education, Community and Leisure at Liverpool John Moores University,
and is Honorary Researcher in the School of Education, University of
Manchester. Her main research interests are in education policy and
modernization, teachers’ work, performance management in schools and
school leadership. Between January 2006 and December 2007 Gillian was
Research Assistant to Professor Helen M. Gunter (School of Education,
) on the Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) project, Knowledge Production in Educational Leadership (KPEL) (RES-
000-23-1192), which investigated the origins and development of school
leadership in England.
Jo Frankham is Senior Lecturer in Education in the School of Education at
the . Her interests include interpretive approaches
to educational inquiry and researching sensitive issues. Recent work has
included an ESRC funded exploration of the rhetoric of ‘partnership
research’ with service users and Joseph Rowntree Foundation research with
children and young people who have been permanently excluded from
school. Her interest in networking was provoked by research on the ESRC
Teaching and Learning Programme. Recent publications have appeared in
British Educational Research Journal and Journal of Education Policy. Jo also leads
the taught doctorate (EdD) in the School of Education.
Sue Goldrick is a Research Associate at the Centre for Equity in Education
in the School of Education at the . Her main
research interests include development and research processes involved in
working with practitioners to achieve greater equity in education systems,
educational improvement across school networks, teacher development,
student voice, and pedagogy for diversity.
Helen M. Gunter is Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership and
Management in the School of Education at the .
Three recent books are Leaders and Leadership in Education (Paul Chapman,
2001), Leading Teachers (Continuum, 2005) and Modernizing Schools: People,
Learning and Organizations (Continuum, 2007, co-edited with Graham Butt).
Helen’s main area of research is in knowledge production in policy studies
and educational leadership. She is grant holder for the ESRC project,
Knowledge Production in Educational Leadership (RES-000-23-1192), and
she is researching the origins and development of school leadership in
England.
Dave Hall is Senior Lecturer in Education in the School of Education,
. His research, linked to a series of externally funded
research projects, has mainly focused upon the relationship between schools,
teaching and socio-economic context and educational transitions. His
publications have recently featured in the International Journal of Inclusive
Education, British Journal of the Sociology of Education, Journal of Education Policy
x Notes on contributors
and Journal of Vocational Education and Training. Dave is also Programme
Director of the MA in Education at the .
Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the
Lynch School of Education at Boston College, MA. He was the Simon
Visiting Professor in the School of Education, Faculty of Humanities,
in 2007. He has authored and edited more than
25 books in education, which have been published in many languages. His
book, Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity (Open
University Press, 2003) received outstanding book awards from the American
Educational Research Association and the American Library Association.
Andy Howes is Senior Lecturer in Education in the School of Education at
the . Recent books include Improving Schools,
Developing Inclusion, Reforming Education? (Routledge, 2006, with Ainscow,
Booth and Dyson et al.) and Improving the Context for Inclusion (Routledge-
Falmer, 2009, with Sue Davies and Sam Fox). Andy’s research is in the area
of teacher development, pedagogy and social justice. He is grant holder for
the ESRC project, Facilitating Teacher Engagement in Inclusive Practice, and he
is involved in a number of other funded inclusion-related projects. He also
coordinates the Educational and Professional Studies programme in the
Secondary Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE).
Kirstin Kerr is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Centre for Equity in
Education, School of Education at the . Her research
explores the complex webs of factors that create inequities in disadvantaged
communities, how these impact on education, and how multi-agency
working can be developed in response. Kirstin’s work also involves supporting
Local Authorities and Education Improvement Partnerships who are seeking
to develop new strategies to address local inequities.
Olwen McNamara is a Professor of Teacher Education and Development in
the School of Education at the University of Manchester, where she is
Director of the Primary Initial Training Programme and Executive Director
of the Teach First Northwest Programme. Her research interests are practi-
tioner focused with a particular emphasis on professional learning and
mathematics education. She publishes widely in these fields and her books
include New Teacher Identity and Regulative Government (Springer, 2005, with
Tony Brown), Practitioner Research and Professional Development in Education
(Sage, 2004, with Anne Campbell and Peter Gilroy 2004) and Becoming an
Evidence-based Practitioner (RoutledgeFalmer, 2002).
Nadine Mearns is an Educational Psychologist with the City of Liverpool.
She has for five years provided advice and practical support to a Sure Start
Local Project, a Sure Start Children’s Centre and a Multi-agency Early Years
Special Educational Need (SEN) assessment service in the city. Her doctoral
thesis (University of Manchester, 2007) examined the subjective experience
of Early Years professionals employed in a range of multi-professional contexts,
 Notes on contributors xi
including both Sure Start and SEN project teams. She has previously
published work on Computer Assisted Learning – ‘Using computers in the
home and in the primary school: Where is the value added?’, Educational
and Child Psychology, 18, 3, 31–46 (with D. Moseley and T. Harrison, 2001).
Denis Mongon is a Senior Research Fellow at Manchester University and
Senior Associate at the Innovation Unit. His current research interest is in
the role of schools in their communities, in particular, the poor outcomes
for white working-class students, new forms of management and governance
for the range of children’s services and the contribution of schools to local
regeneration. His teaching career was in Inner London, mainly with ‘dis-
turbed or disaffected’ young people and he has since held senior posts in
several local authorities and worked for a range of national agencies on policy
development.
Daniel Muijs is Professor of Pedagogy and Teacher Development in the School
of Education at the . He has conducted a wide
range of research in the areas of school and teacher effectiveness and
leadership. He is joint editor of School Effectiveness and School Improvement and
active in a number of professional bodies in the field. Books written include
Effective Teaching, Evidence and Practice (Paul Chapman, 2001, with David
Reynolds) and Teacher Leadership: Improvement through Empowerment? (Open
University Press, 2004, with Alma Harris).
Carlo Raffo is Reader in Equity in Urban Education in the School of
Education, . Carlo’s main area of research is in the
area of education and poverty and educational equity in urban contexts. He
is grant holder for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation project, Education and
Poverty – a critical review of theory, policy and practice and has been involved
in numerous other externally funded projects that focus on schools and
education in areas of urban disadvantage. His publications have recently
featured in the Journal of Education Policy, British Journal of the Sociology of
Education and International Journal of Inclusive Education. Carlo is also
Programme Director of the Ed.D and coordinator of the Urban Contexts
pathway.
John Smyth is Research Professor of Education, School of Education,
University of Ballarat, Australia. Three recent books are Critically Engaged
Learning (Peter Lang, 2008, with Lawrence Angus, Barry Down and Peter
McInerney), Teachers in the Middle (Peter Lang, 2007, with McInerney) and
‘Dropping Out’, Drifting Off, Being Excluded (Peter Lang, 2004, with Robert
Hattam). He is the grant holder for two Australian Research Council projects:
‘Individual, institutional and community “capacity building” in a cluster of
disadvantaged schools and their community’ (with Angus) and ‘Enhancing
school retention: school and community linkages in regional/rural Western
Australia’ (with Down). He was the Simon Visiting Professor in the School
of Education, Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester in 2008.
xii Notes on contributors
Rosemary Webb is a Professor in the School of Education at the University
of Manchester. She has published extensively on aspects of primary education.
A recent book is Changing Teaching and Learning in the Primary School (Open
University Press, 2006). She has had a varied career in primary education as
a teacher, professional officer at the National Curriculum Council, lecturer
and researcher. She is a past chair of the Association for the Study of Primary
Education (ASPE), initiated the British Educational Research Association
(BERA)/ASPE Special Interest Group (SIG) on Primary Teachers’ Work
and is currently its convenor
Mel West is Professor of Educational Leadership and Head of the School of
Education, . His work, principally being in the fields
of school management and school improvement, has taken him to many
countries including Iceland, Laos, Chile, Hong Kong, China, Puerto Rico
and Malawi, working with a number of international agencies including the
British Council, Department for International Development, Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), UNESCO and Save
the Children. In the late 1980s he was one of the architects of the influential
Improving the Quality of Education for All (IQEA) programme. A recent book
is Improving Urban Schools (Open University Press, 2006, co-edited with
Mel Ainscow).
Charlotte Woods is Lecturer in Education within the Management and
Institutional Development group of the School of Education. Charlotte has
worked on a series of funded research projects for NCSL in connection with
the development of School Business Management capacity nationally via
their Bursar Development Programme (BDP). She is currently working with
colleagues in the School of Education on a three-year investigation of the
longer-term impacts of the BDP within the context of current reforms.
Abbreviations

ASPE Association for the Study of Primary Education

BDP Bursar Development Programme
BERA British Educational Research Association
BEST Behaviour and Education Support Team
BIP Behaviour Improvement Programme
BSF Building Schools for the Future
CACE Central Advisory Council for Education (England)
CATE Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
CEE Centre for Equity in Education
CPD Continuing Professional Development
CSBM Certificate of School Business Management
CTC City Technology College
CVA Contextual Value Added
D&R Development and Research
DCSF Department for Children, Schools and Families
DENI Department of Education, Northern Ireland
DES Department of Education and Science
DfE Department for Education
DfEE Department for Education and Employment
DfES Department for Education and Skills
DSBM Diploma of School Business Management
EAL English as an Additional Language
EAZ Education Action Zone
ECM Every Child Matters
EiC Excellence in Cities
EIP Education Improvement Partnership
EP Educational Psychologist
ERA Education Reform Act
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
FE Further Education
FSES Full Service Extended Schools
FSM Free School Meals
FSR Fifty Schools Revisited
xiv Abbreviations
GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education
GM Grant Maintained
GTC General Teaching Council
GTCNI General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland
GTCS General Teaching Council Scotland
GTCW General Teaching Council for Wales
HE Higher Education
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
HEI Higher Education Institution
HMCI Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools
HMI Her Majesty’s Inspectorate
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IEA International Association for the Evaluation of Educational
Achievement
ITE Initial Teacher Education
ITT Initial Teacher Training
KPEL Knowledge Production in Educational Leadership
KS Key Stage
LA Local Authority
LAA Local Area Agreements
LEA Local Education Authority
LIG Leadership Incentive Grant
LMS Local Management of Schools
LPSH Leadership Programme for Serving Heads
NAO National Audit Office
NCC National Curriculum Council
NCSL National College for School Leadership
NDPB Non-Departmental Public Body
NEET Not in Education, Employment or Training
NESS National Evaluation of Sure Start
NIS National Indicator Set
NLS National Literacy Strategy
NNS National Numeracy Strategy
NPQH National Professional Qualification for Headship
NQT Newly Qualified Teacher
NVQ National Vocational Qualification
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OfSTED Office for Standards in Education
OfSTIN Office for Standards in Inspection
ONS Office for National Statistics
PA Personal Adviser
PANDA Performance and Assessment
PAT Policy Action Team
PAYP Positive Activities for Young People
PGCE Postgraduate Certificate in Education
 Abbreviations xv
PISA Programme for International Student Assessment
PMSU Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit
PNP Primary Needs Project
PNS Primary National Strategy
PSHE Personal, Social and Health Education
PTA Parent Teacher Association
PwC PricewaterhouseCoopers
QAA Quality Assurance Agency
QCA Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
QR Quality-Related
QTS Qualified Teacher Status
R&D Research and Development
RAE Research Assessment Exercise
RATL Raising Achievement/Transforming Learning
SAT Standard Attainment Tests
SBM School Business Manager
SCITT School-Centred Initial Teacher Training
SEF Self-Evaluation Form
SEN Special Educational Need
SES Socio-Economic Status
SIG Special Interest Group
SIPs School Improvement Partners
SITE Standard for Initial Teacher Education
SLT Senior Leadership Team/School Leadership Team
SSAT Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
SSP Specialist School Programme
TDA Training and Development Agency (for Schools)
TIMSS Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
TLRP Teaching and Learning Research Programme
TTA Teacher Training Agency
TVEI Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative
UCET Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers
YA Youth Apprenticeship
YFP York-Finnish Project
YJP York-Jyväskylä Project
1 A decade of New Labour
reform of education
Helen M. Gunter and Christopher Chapman

Introduction
In 1997 New Labour set out to transform the public sector in general, and
education in particular.1 From the outset this involved significant input of
resources into schools combined with high-profile targeted interventions aimed
at improving educational standards, often in the most socially deprived areas.
Early targeted interventions included Education Action Zones (EAZs) and the
Excellence in Cities (Office for Standards in Education (OfSTED) 2003a)
programme,2 and then the Leadership Incentive Grant (LIG) (DfES 2003a).3 These
were followed by a second wave, including national strategies for literacy and
numeracy (OfSTED 2003b),4 the introduction of the Every Child Matters (ECM)
(DfES 2003b) agenda,5 and then Education Improvement Partnerships (EIPs) (DCSF
2008a).6 These initiatives have tended to be underpinned by attempts at curri-
culum and leadership development, a broadening of agendas and the promotion
of cross-school collaboration such as Federations (DCSF 2008b).7 More recently,
the reform has shifted its focus to organizational structures and the workforce,
leading to radical systemic changes to the type of schools such as Academies
(DCSF 2008c) and Trusts (DCSF 2008d),8 and the composition of the workforce,
known as Remodelling (DfES 2003c).9 These policy interventions have been
implemented rapidly, with policy-makers arguing for a ‘boldness of reform’ and
‘quality of implementation’. Michael Barber (2007) as an architect of New
Labour education policy conceptualized this approach to educational reform
as outlined in Figure 1.1.
For Barber (2007) the aim was nothing short of transformation articulated
through the goal of a world-class education system, with an emphasis on simul-
taneously securing high standards and personalization. Such a strategy continues
to be contested, and can be polarized, with discourses which stress the
opportunities created, while others reveal the erosion of professional and public
sector values. New Labour uses a ‘score card’ approach to measuring the impact
of transformational reforms, and we intend to go much deeper and wider than
this. By ‘we’, ourselves as editors and our co-writers (and colleagues), we mean
those involved in producing a portfolio of work with valid things to say about
educational reform. Drawing on a programme of research undertaken by
2 Helen M. Gunter and Christopher Chapman

Controversy without Transformation

Boldness of reform

impact

Successful
delivery

Status quo Improved outcomes

Quality of execution

Figure 1.1 The map of delivery (Barber 2007: 83)

members of staff in the School of Education, , we

present a critical account of reform by studying examples of policies, and
conceptualizing the interplay of policy, practice and research. Hence while the
language of New Labour is about ‘new’, ‘modern’ and ‘transformation’, we
intend to show that there is much in common with the direction of travel set
by previous administrations, not least through the dominance of neoliberal
values, thinking and espoused practices. Hence radical change to the roots of
the public sector system is about the protection and extension of market processes
and practices in ways that are more functional than socially critical (Raffo et
al. 2007). The book will not only examine the strategic aspects of reforming
the public sector through major policy initiatives but also move inside the policy
process through examining evidence and analysis that is close to practice.

Policy context
After a decade of New Labour governments, Tony Blair (2007) spoke to the
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and outlined the importance of edu-
cation that had been the mantra of ‘education, education, education’, in 1997:

Good education makes a difference. Good teaching changes lives. Educate

a child well and you give them a chance. Educate them badly and they
may never get a chance in the whole of their lives.
(Blair 2007: 13)

New Labour had wanted to invest in public sector services, and recognized the
need to improve the status and impact of education if they were to keep parents
and the taxpayer onside. He gave testimony to the achievements of this
‘investment for results’ (Blair 2007: 1) policy by celebrating outcomes:
 A decade of New Labour reform of education 3
• ‘English 10 year olds are now ranked third in the world’
• ‘Funding per pupil has doubled’
• ‘The success in specialist schools has been remarkable’
• ‘More than 1,500 previously failing schools have been turned around’
• ‘We have achieved the best ever GCSE [General Certificate of Secondary
Education] and A Level results’
(Blair 2007: 7)

He professed the belief that both excellence and equity can be achieved, and
that this is through two forms of ongoing restructuring: first, systemic diversity
with a range of providers such as Academies and Trust Schools; and second,
responsiveness to learning needs through personalization. And so, ‘what was
once monochrome is now a spectrum offering a range of freedoms and path-
ways’ (Blair 2007: 11). While in 1997, to paraphrase New Labour catchphrases,
standards mattered more than structures, by 2007 structures through restruc-
turing of the ownership of education (e.g. private ownership of Academies)
and the growth in non-departmental public bodies (e.g. NCSL) re-emerged
within the strategy.
The approach taken has been recognized by New Labour as centralized
regulation, where the need for top-down performance management has been
justified through the outcomes identified combined with the need for rapid
change (Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (PMSU) 2006). Hence the ‘Blair
generation’ of children who went to primary school from 1997 could benefit
(Miliband 2004a). Blair along with Adonis (Adonis and Pollard 1997) and Barber
(1996) conceptualized, controlled and secured the type, order and pace of
educational reforms (Beckett and Hencke 2005). Complacency, low per-
formance and rent-seeking behaviour by ‘professionals’ were identified as barriers
that had to be overcome, and so the emphasis was put on eradicating failing
schools, teachers and bureaucrats. Major changes took place as outlined in
Excellence in Schools (Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) 1997a)
and based on six principles:

1 Education will be at the heart of government.

2 Policies will be designed to benefit the many, not just the few.
3 The focus will be on standards, not structures.
4 Intervention will be in inverse proportion to success.
5 There will be zero tolerance of underperformance.
6 Government will work in partnership with all those committed to raising
standards.
(DfEE 1997a: 5)

And further policy texts were generated to develop the detail, for example
national literacy and numeracy strategies, performance management, training
and headteachers as leaders (DfEE 1998a). The approach was to directly
intervene in strategically determining the purposes of schooling, the tactical
4 Helen M. Gunter and Christopher Chapman
day-to-day operation of schools, and the work of teachers and headteachers in
curriculum design, teaching, learning outcomes and assessment. Attention was
given to ‘failing’ schools and resources were targeted on areas of deprivation
with Education Action Zones and Excellence in Cities, and those with low
attainment through schools facing challenging circumstances (Reynolds et al.
2002).
Barber (2007) outlined the rationale and detail of reform implementation
through a ‘delivery chain’ from Whitehall to school that became known as
‘Deliverology’:

The crucial concept was the delivery chain. Again, it is not more than a
blinding flash of the obvious, but none the less important for all that. The
best way to think about it is to imagine what is implicit when a minister
makes a promise. Supposing a minister promises, as David Blunkett did, to
improve standards of reading and writing among eleven-year-olds. Implicit
in this commitment is that, in one way or another, the minister can influence
what happens inside the head of an eleven-year-old in, for example, Widnes.
The delivery chain makes that connection explicit.
(Barber 2007: 85).

The working of the delivery chain depended on minimizing interference so

that what has been determined centrally is secured without direct resistance or
indirect obscuration. Hence New Labour put in place a legal framework
requiring compliance (e.g. DfES 2004a), a guidance framework simulating
compliance (e.g. DfES 2004b), a training regime seducing compliance (e.g.
DfEE 1998a), and structural arrangements staffed with advisers and consultants
based on contractual compliance (see Gunter and Forrester 2008). New Labour
has been able to co-opt a range of people who it could trust to deliver either
by being brought in to lead reforms or to work locally to ensure compliance
(see Clark 1998; Collarbone 2005; Hopkins 2001; Munby 2006; Reid 2007;
C. Taylor 2007) or to supply policy information and strategies (e.g. DfES/
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) 2007).
The delivery chain also required performance targets to be underpinned by
data collection and analysis at key ‘links’ in the ‘chain’ either at national level
with the Prime Minister’s stocktaking meetings or locally with headteachers
examining student outcomes with staff, inspectors and School Improvement
partners (SIPs). Barber (2007) outlines his case for the public collection and
analysis of data and the rank ordering of schools:

Not everyone in public services likes league tables, but I love them. I have
spent much of the last decade advocating them, usually in front of sceptical
or even hostile audiences of headteachers. They make the evidence about
performance public, they focus minds on the priorities they encompass,
and they make sure, in whatever system they are applied, that something
is done about the individual units at the bottom of the league table –
 A decade of New Labour reform of education 5
whether they are schools, hospitals, police forces or local authorities. This
is why I never accepted the idea put forward by many in education that,
once we had a measure of value added or progress, this should replace the
raw data. I have always advocated the publication of both indicators. The
value-added figures show what contribution individual schools are making,
which is important; the raw figures reveal where the biggest challenges are
in achieving universal high standards and focus the system on those
challenges, which is even more important. By laying bare the problems,
league tables drive action. The fact that school failure has been much
reduced (though there is still a lot more to do) and that the gap between
the lowest-performing schools and the average has been narrowed owes a
great deal to league tables. In fact, there is no more powerful driver of
equity.
(Barber 2007: 96)

The micropolitics of convincing Whitehall politicians and civil servants,

combined with unrelenting direction of schools and the profession, is key to
Barber’s strategy, and even though New Labour insiders such as Hyman (2005)
saw the challenges this created at school level.
In the run-up to his resignation as Leader of the Labour Party and hence as
Prime Minister, Blair made sure that his legacy of achievement combined with
an agenda for what still needed to be done was made public. For him, the data
show not only success (see above), but also the need to retain the permanent
revolution of change. The argument being made is the need to shift from the
top-down performance regime towards users shaping reforms (see PMSU 2006):
‘but recently we have moved increasingly from centrally driven approach –
necessary to address the worst of the problems we inherited – to try to make
change self-sustaining by the use of incentives, user choice and contestability
of service’ (Blair 2006: 2). Central to the Every Child Matters (DfES 2003b)
agenda is questioning the nature of provision through separate services (schools,
welfare, health and security) and separate professions (teachers, social workers,
doctors and police) with particular expertise. Trends suggest that schools as they
have traditionally been conceptualized together with teachers, support staff and
a headteacher are open for fundamental change, with restructuring leading to
a range of provision (e.g. all-through schools, federations) and a workforce that
may be more concerned with executive delivery based on generic leadership
skills than on educational professional teacher determined leadership (see Butt
and Gunter 2007). Consequently, emphasis remains on choice, diversity of
provision, the targeting of resources linked to choices, and workforce changes
that produce a flexible response to consumer choice attitudes and practices:

Throughout the process of reform, there are certain maxims I have learnt.
Put the consumer not the producer first. Learn from those at the frontline
actually doing it. Question the system as well as just work it. Back public
servants who take risks and tough decisions. Experiment and innovate.
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