Implementing new funding and governance structures in Scottish schools: associated social risks

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Table 1. Managerial levels of respondents.

#	Job role	Managerial role	Level of involvement in SSES provision and reform
1	Chief executive	Senior manager with strategic role (SMS-1A)	Responsible for setting the strategic direction of the education department.
2	Communities director	Senior manager with strategic role (SMS-2A)	Member of Alpha council’s senior leadership group. Ensures strategic priorities are addressed.
3	Education director	Senior manager with strategic and implementation roles (SMSI-1A)	Directly involved in setting the strategy for schools. Responsible for education and social work, leisure and sport. Maintains strategic overview of education.
4	Head of education	Senior manager with strategic and implementation roles (SMSI-2A)	Responsible for providing school education across Alpha council. Line-manages headteachers. Responsible for strategic change in school provision, school operations.
5	Schools’ manager	Senior manager with strategic and implementation roles (SMSI-3A)	Responsible for allocation, distribution, and management of resources centrally, leads resource meeting and provides schools with resourcing formula to adopt and apply. Responsible for ensuring greater school autonomy. Co-led some education service review in previous role as education officer.
6	Internal auditor	Middle manager with strategic role (MMS-1A)	Responsible for finance. Leads risk management within Alpha council in an advisory capacity. Not directly involved in school education.
7	Inclusion manager	Middle manager with strategic role (MMS-2A)	Focused on Additional Support for Learning. Was previously responsible for the provision of early learning and childcare.
8	Improvement manager	Middle manager with strategic role (MMS-3A)	Indirectly involved (advisory capacity) in provision and reform. Developed service review toolkit to support change and improvement across Alpha council’s departments.
9	Service review manager	Middle manager with strategic and implementation roles (MMSI-1A)	Involved in the provision of nursery education. Responsible for ensuring positive outcomes for learners in nursery, primary and secondary schools. Responsible for reforming Alpha council’s school education service. Leads reform on curriculum and school improvement.

Table 2. References to reductionism as social risk.

S/N	Managerial role	Why (reason)	Who (groups that may be negatively impacted by reductionism)
1	SMS-1A	Unaddressed poverty-related issues, lens approach	Individuals, young people, families, local communities, local council and society
2	SMS-1A	Bounded rationality	Young people from middle-income families
3	MMS-1A	Tick-box exercise	Individuals, young people, families, local communities, local council and society
4	MMS-2A	Inadequate recognition and development of non-academic skills in young people	Individuals, young people, families, local communities, local council, and society
5	MMSI-1A	Unaddressed health and wellbeing issues, lack of clarity due to insufficient information	Individuals, young people, families, local communities, local council, and society