partnerships
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welcome to the Partnership Working website
Partnership Working brings creativity, practical solutions & support for leadership & management when it is most needed.
We have over 30 years experience of analysis & development to create real impact in key areas of education work
Send us an email by clicking the link or give us a call: we'd love to hear from you! Partnership Working
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Partnership Working
recent & current project activity
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"immensely useful advice...."
"thought-provoking and pragmatic"
"you either believe in partnership working or you don't...."
Meet the Partnership Working team of experts, ranging from architects and artists to education leaders and social enterprise specialists.
Take a look at some case studies & reviews from a small selection of our work over the last three years.
Our Knowledge
If you would like to share some of our ideas, consider booking one of the team for a Partnership Working Learning Leadership Seminar
Further details available on request
Partnership Working offers a series of specialised seminars reflecting the current educational context.
Aimed at strategic senior management, these are workshops which will provide practical solutions to the challenge of delivering really effective & efficient use of finite resources.
Topics covered include:
- Early Intervention & long term benefits
- Information Advice & Guidance
- Learning environment development
- Efficient and effective use of resources
- Education improvement partnerships
Our current interests
A Fresh Look!
Partnership Working is part of a unique consortium offering schools cost-effective makeover and building development projects. From £2k to £2m - we have the imagination and skills to help you.
Bringing Learning to Life!
The Science Alive gallery in Harlow is a stunning project providing hands-on learning to support STEM subjects.
We have recently appointed a new Operations Manager, Shell Fearn.
To book a visit, take a look at the brand new Science Alive website: www.science-alive.co.uk
Education service remodelling
Partnership Working is supporting a new project in Newham, remodelling school support services.
The initiative is the result of a strong partnership between the local authority and its schools.
It represents a radical and imaginative response to the context of budget constraints and the need to develop a new relationship between schools, the local authority and other providers.
Our comments
Academic?
The current DfE policy of driving relentlessy towards the academy model for all schools is understandably the cause of considerable concern within the education profession.
Firstly, there is the resulting erosion of the local authority system, which has served for almost 70 years as a means of co-ordinating local services, for all its faults. There is nothing in its place.
Secondly, increasingly complex funding arrangements are leading - as a mathematical certainty - to serious diseconomies of scale in public service provision and in many cases will accelerate the abolition of many valuable education support services.
Thirdly, there is the issue of local accountability.
It is one thing for a school community, in consultation with key stakeholders to decide on the best way to sustain and develop the quality of learning provision.
It is quite another to enforce remote, centralised decisions upon a school and remove self-determination from local education provision.
Finally, there is the essential issue of educational quality, which is always driven by support and challenge from internal and external partnerships.
The jury is out on the impact of a new national pattern of school provision which is increasingly detached from communities and in most cases has no underpinning provision for education improvement through collaboration.
Education...is learning together.
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Since launching in 2008, Partnership Working has provided professional support for education leadership & management in many areas, some of which are shown here.
Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Bath, Bexley, Brent, Bristol, Bromley, Croydon, Dorset, Ealing, Enfield, Essex, Hampshire, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hertfordshire, Hillingdon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Kensington & Chelsea, Kent, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond, Somerset, Southampton, Suffolk, Tower Hamlets, Westminster and Wigan...
Partnership Working Project Updates
May 2012: the demand for our services is increasing!
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Co-operative schools in the South-East look set to expand significantly in 2012, creating a family of around 300 schools sharing a common vision and set of values.
The PW management team has helped Science Alive to win the bid to operate the new Museum of Harlow community service which will re-open in late May 2012.
Newham Partnership Working, a groundbreaking project supported by Partnership Working and Pearson Publishing, is preparing to start delivering local education support services from this Summer, based on a shared cross-phase vision for educational improvement.
Our Destinations project is now underway, helping schools, children and young people in identifying career and lifestyle options in partnership with the BAA Community Fund
The new Riverside Community School in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is over-subscribed for its first year of provision from September 2012
ArtWorks Studio Ten project in Leigh on Sea now has funding in place for building to start this year. Sponsors are invited to get involved in supporting students
Education Swanage have been approved as the very first Co-operative Free school, opening in 2013 with a strong partnership involving Human Scale Education
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Jon O'Connor, Senior Partner, has been appointed to the National advisory board for the National Education Trust NETworks programme, funded by the DfE
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Jon O'Connor of Partnership Working has been appointed as manager for the London & South East Region network of the Co-operative College.
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Carol Rockall has joined the team, working as Partnership Working's visual design adviser on the Harlow Museum Living History project
Partnership Working
clients 2008-2012
The Cooperative College: Associate Advisor for Education Trusts and Partnerships (London & South-East Region)
National Education Trust: NET Associate, providing Training for Excellence in Early Years (Children's Centres)
DfE/Avail Consulting Value for Money programme: Consultancy support for leadership & management
Pearson/INTEC: A new model for education service delivery
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Barking Riverside Learning Partnership: consultancy support for new school development
Education Swanage: partnership consultancy support
Felixstowe Learning Trust: project management for education improvement partnership
Wigan & Golthorpe Learning Partnership: education partnership advisory support
Harlow Children's Centre Network: specialist QA consultancy for curriculum and family support
Newham Partnership Working: developing a new education improvement partnership
Burton Co-operative Learning Trust: support for new school proposal
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Bright Buttons Nursery: education set-up advice for a new early learning provider, launched January 2012
Science Alive, Essex: project management for a £4m learning gallery & additional community services
Studio Ten, Essex: project development for a new Arts/Mental Health Centre
Razed Roof Theatre Group: development support for this award-wining group, establishing a new strategic direction
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Chace Community School: visual display consultancy
Charlton School: master-planning advice and re-modelling project for reception area
Tubbenden Primary School: education management support & visual display consultancy
Great Easton Primary School: artist in residence project
Ravenscroft School: visual display consultancy
Partnership Working Art:
For creative partnerships and outstanding display and design services
Residencies, display, publications and much more besides: contact us for further details
Providing tailored support for creative arts projects, working with schools, education and children's services
tel: 020 3091 8113
Partnership Working Consultancy LLP is a company registered in England and Wales, no. OC341072
Site updated March 2012