Summary - this section of the site provides a single point of access to several materials dispersed across the site, along with such things as past articles on Education Improvement Partnerships and conference presentations.
EIP Prospectus - please click here ( 1.0 Mb).
NEW: Advice on a wide range of issues related to EIPs - Please click here ( 153 Kb).
NEW: EiC Self and Peer Review 2006: Framework and Guidance
Overall Partnership Self Review Criteria 2006 ( 216 Kb)
Guidance for Partnership Self and Peer Review 2006 ( 49 Kb)
Data Summary Sheet Spring 2006 - Annex A ( 89 Kb)
The strand documents below do not form part of the SPR framework. They may, however, be used as aids to evidence gathering where Strand Programmes are relevant to the partnership. Please note that they should be seen as complementary to other aids and reveiw processes that may have been devised by either, the Department or partnerships themselves.
G&T Criteria Spring 2005 ( 97 Kb)
LM Criteria Spring 2005 ( 112 Kb)
LSU Criteria Spring 2005 ( 56 Kb)
CLC Criteria Spring 2005 ( 146 Kb)
EiCAZ Criteria Spring 2005 ( 122 Kb)
Aimhigher Criteria Spring 2005 ( 40 Kb)
ECM links to EiC Spring 2005 - Annex C ( 60 Kb)
LEA Ofsted Links to EiC Spring 2005 - Annex D ( 135 Kb)
Turning the Curve
The Department has published a toolkit developed by Portsmouth Children's Trust, that provides an insight into the application of a practical technique known as 'Results Based Accountability' or 'Turning the Curve'. 'Turning the Curve' facilitates community engagement and capacity building. It enables professionals to:
identify meaningful measures and indicators;
facilitate community engagement and capacity building;
enable professionals, parents, children and young people to collaborate and share responsibility for making a difference.
To view the toolkit, please click here.
TES article on the process of becoming an EIP by Pat McDermott, Head of St Joseph's Catholic School - please click here ( 181 Kb).
The Model Service Level Agreement - please click here ( 120 Kb).
The Model Memorandum of Understanding - please click here ( 74 Kb).
Rt. Hon. Jacqui Smith MP's Key note speech to the EIP Conference 2006 - please click here.
'Vision for Collaboration' a presentation by Peter Wanless, DfES to the EIP Conference 2005 - please click here ( 2.5 Mb).
'Benefits and Barriers to Partnership Dividend'a presentation by Janice Lawson, DfES to the EIP Conference 2006 - please click here ( 154 Kb).
'Benefits and Barriers to Partnership Dividend' (Part 2) a presentation by Maureen Burns, DfES to the EIP Conference 2006 - please click here ( 100 Kb).
'Increased Collaboration' a presentation by Bob Clayton, Head of School Improvement, Bedfordshire County Council, to the EIP Conference 2005 - please click here ( 846 Kb).
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'Tynesdale 14+ Learning Partnership' a presentation by David Thompson, Joint Co-ordinator for the Tynesdale 14+ Learning Partnership, to the EIP Conference 2005 - please click here ( 4.6 Mb).
'Beyond School Walls'
Two presentations given to the EIP Conference 2005 showing how partnerships span instituitions.
- for the presentation given by Kerry De Jager, Extended Schools Co-ordinator, Chalvedon School, Basildon - please click here ( 276 Kb).
- for the presentation given by Tracy Wearn, Community Project Co-ordinator, Birmingham - please click here ( 152 Kb).
'In School Focus'
Two presentations given at the EIP Conference 2005 providing a school-based perspective on the benefits of collaboration.
- for the presentation given by Penny Bentley, Headteacher, Columbia Primary School - please click here ( 111 Kb).
- for the presentation given by Simon Elledge, AST at Wandsworth City Learning Centres - please click here ( 3.9 Mb).
'School Workforce Reform' a presentation by John Atkins, Principal, Kemnal Technology College, Bromley, to the EIP conference 2005 - please click here ( 47 Kb).
'Cross Phase Working'
Two presentations given to the EIP Conference 2005 on the subject of collaboration across primary and secondary schools.
- for the presentation by Alan Staton, Headteacher St Ann's Junior and Infant School, Rotherham - please click here ( 457 Kb).
- for the presentation by Stephen Munday, Principal, Comberton Village College and Chair of Cambridgeshire Secondary Heads - please click here ( 514 Kb).
'Multi - Agency Working'a presentation by Paul Threadgall, BIP Manager, Sunderland LA, to the EIP Conference 2005 - please click here ( 3.0 Mb).
'Wider Team Working' a presentation by Gary Fooks, Development Manager, Chesil Federation, to the EIP Conference 2005 - please click here ( 2.7 Mb).
Other useful resources
Federations Continuum - please click here.
'Establishing a hard federation' - please click here.
'Your Step Guide to 'Hard Governance Federation" - please click here.
Federation FAQs - please click here ( 60 Kb).
'Shape of things to come' booklet produced by the Innovation Unit - please click here ( 1.9 Mb).
Publication Date: July 2005
Last Updated: October 2005 |
