Regional Improvements for Standards and Excellence 

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.  

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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).

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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

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

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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.