Next Practice in System Leadership - South London

New leadership models and flexible leadership deployment across a federation of six academies
 

Harris Federation of South London Schools, London

A group of six academies in a highly challenging South London area have formed a hard federation which will operate as a single legal entity with one board of trustees. It will incorporate a seventh school in 2008. It is implementing a new Leadership and Governance structure across the federation of academies - including the role of the CEO, a single Governing Body, the mobilisation of leadership capacity across the federation, the use of an internal researcher and a bespoke, federation-wide Masters programme.

The new leadership arrangements include flexible leadership deployment and federation succession management strategies. The site is designing and implementing these new leadership arrangements and leadership learning strategies across the federation, to generate the leadership capacity for its bold plans and is also exploring federated 14-19 arrangements.