Education Development Service

The aim of the Education Development Service, is to raise achievment of all pupils to enable them to reach their full potential, by:

• Monitoring the performance of all schools, and ensuring they have the necessary information to set and meet demanding targets for all groups of pupils, including those from ethnic and cultural minorities.
• Focussing services on schools which need challenge and further support to secure improvement and to intervene decisively where a school is failing its pupils.