The contract with National Strategies, which oversees the numeracy andliteracy strategies, will end in 2011, and funding will be transferredto schools, who will be expected to use it with school improvement plansto invest in improving literacy and numeracy.
The paper states that, 'The accountability system will continue to focussharply on literacy and numeracy.'
It also said that that 'early years achievement' would remain a priorityin moving to a new model of school improvement, with alignment betweenthe approach in schools and early years settings.
The new primary curriculum which the Government is consulting on forimplementation in 2011, will build on the EYFS, it said.
Teachers will need licences to teach, which will be up for renewal everyfive years. The plans will start with newly qualified teachers fromSeptember 2010 and teachers who have been out of the profession for sometime.
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