Project details
Portfolio: Education, skills and inclusion
Funding amount: £2.2m
Funder: Investment Fund
Project status: In progress
Delivery partner: Seven local authorities in the North East and multiple delivery partners
Key contact: Children and Young People’s Team
Key contact email: education@northeast-ca.gov.uk
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Our ambition is to build an economy everyone can contribute to and benefit from. We aim to equip residents with the skills and support needed for the region to thrive. The North East CA aims to do this in part by directly supporting schools, children and their families with targeted education improvement and child poverty prevention programmes.
The Education Improvement Programme (EIP) is focused on taking steps to address the significant educational achievement gap in our area, with pupils in the North East likely to underperform in comparison to their peers elsewhere in the country. The programme works collaboratively right across the education landscape, adding value to the work of our constituent local authorities. The programme has developed a convening role within education in the region, bringing together LAs, Multi Academy Trusts, School Federations, Teaching School Hubs and Research Schools as well as individual schools. This shared sense of collaborative working across a complex education system provides a social return on investment that would not occur without this programme.
The Education Improvement Programme works across three key workstreams:
- School Improvement – with a focus on providing training and connecting school improvement leaders from schools, Trusts and LAs across the region and beyond.
- Professional Development – with a focus on connecting schools across the region to share good practice and learn from each other, as well as commissioning additional professional development provision in identified priorities like Literacy and Oracy.
- Responding to local priorities – including providing support in priority areas for schools like Mental Health, Cultural Capital, Transitions, Inclusive Leadership, Reading for Pleasure/Reading Fluency and Climate Change & Sustainability engagement.
We also provide a small grants programme that is designed to support the development of creative, innovative and scalable approaches to tackle the challenges which schools are facing.
