In a speech at a Policy Exchange event, the education and childcare minister said that there was already a network of 100 teaching schools and that 20 of them would be making new links with early years providers in their area.
Teaching schools have a large remit to provide training and development to other schools and early years providers in a number of different ways (see below).
Teaching school networks have to be open to all providers and the Department for Education aims to have a network of 600 teaching schools by March 2016.
Charlie Taylor at the National College for Teaching and Leadership has overall responsibility for teaching schools, which must all be graded outstanding and meet set eligibility criteria to apply for funding.
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