Next Practice in System Leadership - Winsford

Whole town 'one school' provision to meet ECM and inclusion aspirations

Winsford Education Partnership, Winsford

The 17 schools in the Winsford Education Partnership have worked well in partnership for a number of years. Through this field trial they are seeking to develop from comfortable collaboration to harder-edged system leadership of a whole-town plan to deliver ECM outcomes, working with the Local Authority to redesign its emerging strategy to fit the Winsford context and vision. Work with The Bridge Change Leadership Framework crystallised the need for the schools to relax their commitment to full consensus in order to make more rapid and radical progress.

They are jointly developing, with Local Authority and Local Council support, a town-wide plan for the future of education locally. Winsford aims to become a 0-19 centre of education with a full commitment to inclusion and the delivery of ECM. This is likely to be driven by a change leadership group, possibly involving the creation of a trust, and a principle change manager.