The Essex Learning Partnership – Mission and Objectives

2. The Essex Learning Partnership – Mission and Objectives The Essex Learning Partnership - Mission The Essex Learning Partnership (ELP) is totally committed to achieving world class, outstanding outcomes for all Essex learners through school improvement. Our aim is to ensure that all Essex schools provide outstanding outcomes for their learners recognising their differing social contexts and starting points. ELP is committed to diversity and equality • The Essex Learning Partnership – Objectives • Develop a collaborative approach to school improvement to enable all schools to improve. • School improvement opportunities concerned with getting the best from staff • A recruitment arm to coordinate models of teacher recruitment, training and deployment • A transparent, rigorous evaluation process to report on the effectiveness, impact and results of the partnership.

3. Essex Learning Partnership Company Structure • The Essex Learning Partnership – Structure • ELP is a not-for- profit community interest company with partner Essex schools. • ELP does not wish to be a local authority. • Its core business is solely school improvement, working with Essex schools, for Essex schools and using local expertise, leaders and teachers. • Will act as a contracting and umbrella organisation authority and with close links to the Local Authority Core Team and a range of providers and school groups.

4. Essex Learning Partnership Company Structure The Essex Learning Partnership – Organisation

5. Essex Learning Partnership relationships Essex Learners Parents Zone of School Improvement Governors Teachers, Support Staff and Leadership Other Providers and Early years Essex Learning Partnership All Schools +LA core+ admin support+ data team SSAT NCSL TDA ASCL NAHT Staffing Innovation Leadership Curriculum Development Recruitment High quality CPD NQT GTP Succession Planning Resources SIPS/ Consultants AST LLE NLE Academies Trusts Federations Individual schools Accredited providers Bought Services HR Finance Communications Safeguarding Administration Policy Unit Premises Health and Safety Essex Headteacher Associations and Teacher Associations

6. Essex Learning Partnership Resources The Essex Learning Partnership Resources and Expertise Available Accredited school groups and providers School Improvement Partners (deployment, assessment of data and evaluation of performance) Academies Enterprise Trust - AET Advanced Skills Teachers Local Leaders of Education and Professional Partners National Leaders of Education Teaching and Learning Behaviour Management Assessment and Data Tracking Data analyses and training Curriculum Design Change Management Expert Workshops in English and Maths for Students for all abilities SEN outreach (MLD) Children with Disabilities advice Subject Specific Expertise Middle and Senior Leadership development Pastoral and Academic leadership development Succession planning Executive Leadership Coaching Headteacher Induction Sports leadership and development Self evaluation, SEF writing, Ofsted preparation and follow up. Monitoring and evaluation Professional development programmes Support for Specialisms Governor Support for Headteacher Recruitment Recruitment of staff Financial and Administrative management advice ELP has links with a wide range of organisations and has access to Specialist Schools Trust and National College recourses and programmes.

7. Essex Learning Partnership school support

8. Essex Learning Partnership Accountability Essex Learning Partnership

9. Essex Learning Partnership Accountability Guarantee Company: its DifferencesThe main differences between a guarantee company and a company with shares are: Its members do not receive share certificates and whilst they control the guarantee company, through decisions taken by them at General Meetings, they do each not "own" a proportionate part of the guarantee company. Its members cannot receive any dividend, profit or other income from the guarantee company, nor can they receive a share of its assets if it comes to an end. Its members enjoy limited liability, but usually have to pay an annual subscription (at a rate set annually by themselves at General Meeting) and, if the guarantee company is forced to come to an end through a liquidation, they are obliged to pay a final sum of £1.00 each to the Liquidator. The members (in most cases) elect the Board of Directors (usually called Trustees or Governors to avoid connotations of salaries and bonuses) which is responsible for setting and overseeing the policy of the guarantee company. The Directors also enjoy limited liability, provided that they have not acted negligently, or fraudulently, or have not permitted the guarantee company to continue trading when it was insolvent (this is known as "wrongful trading").

10. Essex Learning Partnership Accountability Guarantee Company: AdvantagesMembers' liability is restricted (usually to £1.00 each); The guarantee company can hold property and borrow money in its own name; The guarantee company is subject to the democratic control of members - both in relation to fundamental decisions (e.g. a change in its constitution) and in relation to election/re-election of the Board; It is relatively easy to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary company, with a share capital owned by the guarantee company, which is particularly useful where the guarantee company is a charity and the subsidiary company is to be used for non-charitable trading (often called "a trading subsidiary").

11. Essex Learning Partnership Company Structure

12. Essex Learning Partnership Where are we now? • LA launched a Traded Services Model which excluded ELP. • ELP has set up its own service model and began to gather resources from schools and consultants. • The issue the flyer was to highlight to school that we are still moving towards a school to school support mechanism. • We are still discussing the correct legal framework to exempt schools from VAT. • Company structure then needs to be agreed • We then need a website, database and finance system agreed. • LA has been in talks to renegotiate its place in ELP awaiting decision.