The creation of strong partnerships between providers and stakeholders is crucial to the delivery of education services to young people and adults.

We …

• project manage significant change programmes requiring partnership development
• analyse the capacity of partnerships to deliver high quality services
• utilise various tools including climate analysis to evaluate capacity for improvement
• support technical requirements of partnerships, for example facilities auditing and common timetabling
• deliver change management programmes
• support legal and structural change requirements of partnership. For example agreeing terms of reference and partnership protocols.

Our Experience …

In 2000 Northern Education was brought into being to facilitate the New Relationship between Local Authorities and Schools. Since then we have developed partnership within local authorities, with schools FE Colleges, Universities and the Private Sector. We are now heavily involved in the development of 14-19 Partnerships.

Our partnership development work includes:
• North East 14-19 Commmission, supporting the partnership between ONE NorthEast, LSC and Government Office
• DCSF Advisory support for 14-19 in the North East
• Employer Engagement Strategy for the North East
• supporting the development of Schools North East (http://www.schoolsnortheast.com)
• BSF advice to private sector and local authorities
• reviewing the climate of partnership with a number of local authorities in the north east and Lancashire
• Sure Start restructuring
• college and school federations and mergers.