Partnership Learning welcomes approaches from maintained schools, single academies or MATs interested in working with or joining us.

Why Partnership Learning?

  • A collaborative structure, based on leaders and governors trusted to drive their schools forward in line with their own vision, developing each school’s individual ethos, character and approach
  • A strong role for local governing boards, with a full range of responsibilities and powers
  • A positive culture of school-to-school support
  • Resources kept under school control, with only 2% of income retained to provide central services
  • Effective central services, provided within the 2% retention, including:
    • School Improvement
    • Finance Support
    • Human Resources
    • Employee Wellbeing Programme
    • Payroll
    • Legal Advice
    • Facilities and Estates support, guidance and management software
    • ICT strategic advice and guidance
    • Website hosting and support
    • GDPR management
    • Governance support
  • Optional additional services, including:
    • ICT Support
    • Planned Preventive Maintenance Programme
    • Pupil Attendance
  • Access to capital investment from the Trust’s £3.5m annual capital allocation

The Trust:

  • Currently supports 20 schools – secondary, primary, all-through, special and University Technical College – across five local authorities (Hillingdon, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Waltham Forest and Southend) serving around 15,000 pupils.
  • Is large enough to operate efficiently but small enough to enable working as a family of schools
  • Encompasses Partnership London SCITT – a successful Initial Teacher Training provider which gives access to high quality Early Career Teachers.
  • Is financially sound with significant reserves
  • Has successfully incorporated both individual joiner schools and an established MAT
  • Is in the top 20% of MATs across all major outcome measures and in the top 5% for most
  • Offers services to schools outside the Trust, including ICT support

Further information

If you would like to explore further either working with or joining us, please email us at office@partnershiplearning.com or phone 0203 909 2333