The Department for Education is expected to announce the name of the commercial provider that will develop and trial the new assessment following a bidding process for the £10m contract.
Delegates debated the Baseline at the National Education Union’s annual conference for the NUT section of the union held in Brighton over the Easter weekend.
The teaching union's members have committed to a major campaign to stop the Baseline and will be encouraging schools not to take part in the pilot of Baseline Assessment in September 2019.
The NEU is part of the More than a Score coalition of organisations and individuals that are calling for the baseline to be scrapped. The union is against testing children in the first few weeks of starting school and is in favour of observation-based assessment of children over time.
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