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A National College guide to federations
Author:
National College
Subject:
Models and partnerships
Audience:
Headteachers, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers, School business managers, Early years leaders, Stakeholders and partners
Date of publication:
August 2010 |
File format and size:
PDF, 1.01 Mb
This brief, practical guide provides an overview of federations of schools. It looks at the implications of the statutory regulations, reasons to develop a federation, and offers a step-by-step guide to forming a federation.
The term federation has previously been used to describe a variety of collaborative arrangements on a continuum from informal arrangements with no common governance, through soft federations set up under the collaboration regulations, to a formally constituted hard federation of schools with a single governing body.
The term collaboration has now replaced soft federation. This guide looks only at hard federations which, in every case, have a single governing body for a number of schools.
This is one of a series of practical guides for school leaders, governors and local authorities who are exploring more flexible approaches to leading New models of leadership are developing rapidly and these guides are only snapshots of the best information available at the time of writing (February 2010).
You can also download the publication A National College guide to partnerships and collaborations
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