Creating successful partnerships

It is important to work in partnership to 'get it right for every child'.

All staff share a responsibility for identifying the needs, including care and welfare needs, of children and young people and working in partnership to put support in place to meet those needs. Partnership working should be an important element when planning for learning and assessment.

Identifying partnerships

Learning centres should make use of existing partnerships or reach out to other organisations and create new partnerships that can contribute to the delivery of the curriculum and provide the personalised learning needed for an individual.

Establishments and partnerships have the freedom to think imaginatively about how the experiences and outcomes might be organised and planned for in creative ways which encourage deep, sustained learning and which meet the needs of their children and young people.

Making partnerships a success

Schools and centres need to develop learning and assessment that allows access for all to the learning described in the experiences and outcomes, allows progression for all and provides different kinds of choice.

A collaborative approach is needed to ensure progression within and across levels, particularly at transition, and to enhance learning through regular professional dialogue across partnerships, sharing knowledge, information, ideas and expertise.

The framework encourages more responsive and dynamic approaches, which include planning across partnerships to improve outcomes for all children and young people.