Partnership Learning started life as a Multi-Academy Trust in 2015 and now oversees 18 schools serving 14,000 pupils across Barking and Dagenham, Hillingdon, Havering, Waltham Forest and Southend, with a further three approved to open over the next three years. The Trust: • seeks to achieve its vision through establishing new schools, transforming under-performing schools and working with existing good schools; • values the individual character of its schools and their leaders, whilst encouraging and facilitating the development and deployment of effective common strategies to ensure that all its pupils thrive; • takes responsibility for driving improvement and challenging under-performance, whilst supporting schools and their leaders through collaboration; • has particular expertise in providing excellent outcomes within disadvantaged communities, using strategies that work across the socio-economic spectrum.