Hertfordshire Learning Partnership
Update - May 2011
Standards and School Effectiveness is currently exploring ways of building on successful partnership working to create a new Hertfordshire Learning Partnership. This will facilitate a school-led ‘self improving school system’ in which schools themselves work together and take responsibility for supporting and challenging one another to improve their performance. Early discussions with representative heads and governors have indicated strong support for exploring a 'co-produced’ service between schools and the local authority that would:
- Establish a family of schools assuming shared responsibility for improving learning and wellbeing outcomes of all children
- Further develop a culture of continuous improvement across groups of schools that enables a system that engages and stretches the most successful schools as well as reaching out early to provide support to schools at risk
- Develop an effective framework for peer review and enhance school to school support through specialist expertise and subject knowledge
- Provide leadership, management, and coordination of specific initiatives and projects identified by schools as priorities
- Establish mechanisms for quality assurance, accreditation and innovation
- Provide other packages of support identified through analyses of collective and individual needs of schools and local priorities
- Be commissioned by the Local Authority to provide services and packages of support for schools causing concern.
These new school improvement arrangements would primarily be ‘for schools by schools’. Strategic leadership for the Partnership would therefore come from schools with the Local Authority as a key partner. Consideration will also be given to the best delivery model for the Partnership and this will include looking at the business case for a social enterprise or mutual company.
The new Hertfordshire Learning Partnership (HLP) will only be successfully established with the full and active involvement of schools to shape the vision, role, function and funding of the Partnership. Building on the initial work that has begun with representative headteachers and governors, workshops, facilitated by the Office for Public Management were held in May 2011 to explore these plans together.
To read more about the existing Hertfordshire Learning Partnership:
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