The Five Year Strategy for Children and Learners: Maintaining the Excellent Progress

Two years ago the DfES published the Five Year Strategy for Children and Learners. As we move toward the Comprehensive Spending Review, the Department has published this progress report - Five Year Strategy for Children and Learners: Maintaining the Excellent Progress - which sets out achievements to date and priorities going forward to 2009 and beyond.

This document provides a report on the delivery of the Strategy two years on, setting out the rapid progress already made. It then looks ahead to how the Strategy will be taken forward to 2009 and beyond, and sets out the priorities on which the Department and partners will focus, and against which success should be measured.

Finally, this document sets out lessons for the Department and partners for meeting the challenge of delivering on these priorities.