Biii. Towards a national strategy for partnerships: the School Partnerships Alliance, 2025-27 | HMC Spring Conference 2025

How can so many partnership projects, entered into in good faith and at no little expense of time and resource, be so easily dismissed as tokenistic or performative and do so little to move the political dial?

Dr Joe Spence, CEO of the School Partnerships Alliance, explores how HMC schools can best build impactful and sustainable independent-state school partnerships that will make a difference to all pupils and lead to a greater understanding of the independent sector’s sincere commitment to collaborative working.