State of Education Report 2017 state-of-education-booklet-Final-WEB | Page 5

What do you expect to be the biggest challenge for your school to manage over the next academic year (2017/18)?
Top five most-cited
challenges:
51%
Budget
pressures/lack
of funding
53% Budget
pressures/lack
of funding
50% Budget
pressures/lack
of funding
Governor perspective
A lack of funding
is also a concern for
11% Teacher and
school leader
workload
15%
12% Teacher and
school leader
workload
Teacher
recruitment
and retention
the majority of school
governors. Eight in
10 (79%) governors
expect budget pressure
10%
9% Teacher
recruitment and
retention
Teacher
recruitment
and retention
8%
Teacher
and school
leader workload
to be a challenge for their
board to manage or oversee
in the 2017/18 academic
6%
Quality of
teaching and
leadership
6%
4%
Quality of
teaching and
leadership
Quality of
teaching and
leadership
year. Monitoring school
performance under the new
performance measures, and
managing staff wellbeing
4%
Providing
for pupils
with SEND
5%
Providing
for pupils
with SEND
4%
Other
and morale, also rank highly
as expected challenges for
59% and 47% of governors
respectively in the year ahead.
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