List of "Phonics Team" members

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Geraldine Carter

Dear Department for Education,

I would be grateful for your list of members of the "Phonics Team", responsible for Synthetic Phonics' programme assessment and for the compilation of the DfE "Phonics Catalogue".

Could you also list the main advisors to the "Phonics Team" in respect of the forthcoming "Phonics Catalogue".

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,
Geraldine Carter
www.piperbooks.co.uk

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Department for Education

Dear Ms Carter ,
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 3 May
2011. You requested a list of members of the "Phonics Team", responsible
for Synthetic Phonics' programme assessment and for the compilation of the
DfE "Phonics Catalogue". You also requested a list of the main advisors
to the "Phonics Team" in respect of the forthcoming "Phonics
Catalogue". I am dealing with your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

In order to identify and locate the information that you have asked for, I
require some further information from you. I need to check the exact
nature of your request. There is a phonics team in the Department that
deals with the administration of the self-assessment process. Separately
there are the two organisations, Roger Beard Consultancy and the NFER who
are actually evaluating the self-assessments.

It is important to note that the arrangements for self-assessment are
separate from the recent announcement by the Government about
match-funding for schools of up to -L-3000 for approved phonics products
and training. In your email you mention the forthcoming `Phonics
Catalogue'. The self-assessment process and match-funding arrangements
are two separate processes. The evaluators of the self-assessments are
different from the organisation dealing with the match-funding and
managing the catalogue of approved products. We have appointed a public
sector buying organisation to manage the match-funding and develop and
manage a catalogue that will be available to schools with a list of
approved products and training.

Therefore I am requesting information as to whether you require details of
the Department's phonics team, the names of the independent evaluators
dealing with the self-assessments or the details of the public sector
buying organisation that are dealing with the catalogue of approved
products.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Yours sincerely,

Claire Campbell
Standards Division
[email address]
[1]www.education.gov.uk

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2011/0033655.

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J Downs left an annotation ()

The organisation handling the procurement of synthetic phonics products and training is ESPO. The "approved" phonics material will appear in the ESPO catalogue in September although the DfE has promised a PDF version on its website before then. It's got just five weeks to do this from today (20 July 2011). Only the materials listed in the ESPO catalogue will be available for matched funding and schools will have to buy the materials from ESPO to receive the matched funding. The Bookseller has complained that if the matched funding is only available through ESPO then this is a monopoly.

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/monopo...