Sheffield Strategic Partnership

Sheffield City Council and Learn Sheffield are exploring some new approaches to developing education strategy in the city and have jointly setting up a working group to develop and make recommendations for a new approach to civic partnership.

This work is being supported by Jonathan Crossley-Holland (who will chair the working group) and ISOS, both of whom have led research in this field. The working group met for the first time in the summer term and have been tasked with a brief to make recommendations by December 2023.

Meetings of this working group are open to all school leaders but Learn Sheffield will also work with sector partnerships to ensure that each sector and type of setting is reflected within the group. These links to the existing meeting infrastructure will also ensure that the work of the group is disseminated and widely understood.

We have scheduled three meetings for this working group – to be held at Learn Sheffield (Albion House) - see dates below:

• Wednesday 1 November 1:00pm – 3:00pm
• Thursday 23 November 11:00am – 1:00pm
• Friday 15 December 10:00am – 12:00pm

Further information about this project, including meeting papers as they become available can be found below.

Working Group minutes – 23 November 2023
Listening to, and learning from, parents in the attendance crisis (September 2023 – Public First)
Learn Sheffield Insight Report – Attendance (November 2023)
ISOS Input – AEC Pilot (23.11.23)
Presentation (Learn Sheffield) – 23 November 2023

Working Group minutes – 1 November
Presentation (Developing a Partnership) - 1 November 2023
Presentation (Learn Sheffield) - 1 November 2023

Working Group minutes – 14 July 2023
Lessons from other Strategic Education Partnerships (Simon Day – ISOS – 14.7.23)
Background Briefing (Jonathan Crossley-Holland - 14.7.23)