School Improvement Services
Hertfordshire Learning Partnership
We are 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
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 were held in May 2011
to explore these plans together.
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