TFSP background
Together the consortium brings:
- Experience and expertise covering the key areas needed to embed
the Trust and Foundation Schools Programme within the wider raising
achievement agenda
- Established networks, programmes and activities which enable
the consortium to rapidly, directly and cost-effectively reach the
key audiences (secondary, primary, special, governors and
partners)
- Wide experience of supporting fast-growing national education
programmes of comparable scale and complexity
In brief: Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
(SSAT)
Established in 1987, the Specialist Schools and Academies
Trust is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, working
to raise achievement in secondary education. SSAT has a membership
of 2750 mainstream English secondary schools. The SSAT’s schools
network also includes around 2000 other secondary, primary and
special schools, both in England and abroad.
The SSAT has been the main deliverer of the government’s
Specialist Schools Programme and supports several of the other
large educational programmes at the heart of raising achievement
and standards in English secondary schools.
In brief: Youth Sport Trust (YST)
Established in 1994, YST has a mission to support
the education and development of all young people through physical
education and sport. The YST has a proven track record of working
with primary schools, including:
- The development of resources, training and equipment in
physical education for all primary schools in England (TOP
programmes) – successfully implemented across all 18,000 primary
schools in England
- The development of a simple and sustainable subject
co-coordinator support programme – resulting in every primary
school now benefiting from the establishment of a primary link
teacher and support work
In addition, YST has a successful and respected record in
developing and delivering strategies in response to national
policy, eg:
- Identifying and supporting 400 schools to gain sports college
status and building a national and regional support programme for
them
- Development of practical approaches to behaviour management
with its Sky Living for Sport programme
- Supporting and driving key elements of the DCSF strategy
response to the London Olympic and Paralympic Games
In brief: Foundation & Aided Schools National
Association (FASNA)
FASNA is a national forum for
primary, secondary and special self-governing schools. It is the
only national organisation that expressly represents the interests
and views of self-governing schools (foundation, foundation with
trust and voluntary-aided).
Its membership covers primary, secondary and special schools
with equal representation of heads and governors as well as
including clerks to governing bodies.
As a 1000-strong membership organisation, FASNA represents the
interests of self-governing schools to government, DCSF, National
Employers’ Organisation for School Teachers (NEOST), unions and
other groups in the educational field. FASNA’s philosophy is
focused on increasing autonomy in order to support creative
leadership that develops individual school strategies responsive to
the needs of the local community – leading to raising
standards.
Alongside increased autonomy FASNA promotes the benefit of
schools working cooperatively with a variety of agencies and
different groups to fulfill the school’s vision.