Standard+2

=__**Standard 2**__=
 * A strategy and development plan for improving literacy and numeracy standards, with targets for the whole organisation.**
 * It has a whole organisation strategic approach embedded in its development plan and policy for raising standards in literacy and numeracy. This must include a rationale for:**
 * **Choice of interventions and use in specific groups (eg school year groups or post 16 vocational group)**
 * **Moving learners in and out of interventions**
 * **Monitoring procedures for progress of underattaining learners**
 * **Deployment of teaching/learning support assistants in supporting basic skills**
 * **Effective use of resources', staff, teaching time and funding to support basic skills**
 * **Training of teachers and teaching/learning support assistants to support basic skills**
 * **It has targets for improving the literacy and numeracy standards of underattaining learners that are quantifiable, measurable, realistic and evidence based**
 * **It is able to demonstrate that meeting the literacy and numeracy needs of underattainers is the responsibility of all staff**
 * **It is able to demonstrate that basic skills learners have access to sufficient hours of support each week to meet the needs identified by initial Assessments**
 * **Training of teachers and teaching/learning support assistants to support basic skills**
 * **It has targets for improving the literacy and numeracy standards of underattaining learners that are quantifiable, measurable, realistic and evidence based**
 * **It is able to demonstrate that meeting the literacy and numeracy needs of underattainers is the responsibility of all staff**
 * **It is able to demonstrate that basic skills learners have access to sufficient hours of support each week to meet the needs identified by initial Assessments**
 * **It is able to demonstrate that meeting the literacy and numeracy needs of underattainers is the responsibility of all staff**
 * **It is able to demonstrate that basic skills learners have access to sufficient hours of support each week to meet the needs identified by initial Assessments**
 * **It is able to demonstrate that basic skills learners have access to sufficient hours of support each week to meet the needs identified by initial Assessments**
 * **It is able to demonstrate that basic skills learners have access to sufficient hours of support each week to meet the needs identified by initial Assessments**