Annual Report and Accounts 2025 - 2026: Performance summary

Our performance in 2025/6. This pages presents a one-page high level overview of some of our manin content.

4 refocus through reform areas:

  • Curriculum

  • Professional learning and leadership

  • Scottish Attainment Challenge

  • Enhancing Inspection

Curriculum 

  • Curriculum Improvement Cycle activity continues to progress across all 10 curriculum areas and 3 cross curricular areas

    • Over 1500 teachers and practitioners involved in process

    • The new draft curriculum guidance aims to be available from summer 2026.

  • Curriculum design professional learning was developed for two cohorts in 2025/26 with 98 participants taking part 

Scottish Attainment Challenge:

  • The Improving Attendance QI Programme completed its third cohort, and  professional learning was delivered to all headteachers in five local authorities.  

  • The Improving Attendance QI Programme was delivered to 64 schools across Scotland, in eleven local authorities. 

  • Feedback from local authorities highlights the positive value of Education Scotland’s support.

Professional learning throughout 2025-26:

  • Through the Professional Learning and Leadership team:

    • 3,500 meaningful interactions with educators across the system

    • Almost 1,200 programme participants completed their professional learning

    • over 360 took part in BRL Plus online learning and 140 attended the in person BRL Anti Racist Leadership event

    • 370 educators engaged in Introduction to Self Directed Learning sessions.

    • Into Headship received reaccreditation from GTCS until 2031

  • 5,807 engagements taking part in professional learning focusing on curriculum

  • Youth Voice Toolkit launched in August 2025 - “Thank you for sharing, looks like a great model and really useful toolkit. Brilliant to hear about in practice too!”

Inspection:

  • Fieldwork for the Broad General Education Primary Thematic commenced in March 2026

  • National Thematic Inspection Report publish in January 2026 – Literacy and English within Scotland’ curriculum

  • 179 schools and 90 ELC settings inspected

  • The new shared quality framework for inspection of ELC settings commenced in September 2025.

  • New framework for the inspection of local authorities will be trialled during 2026.

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