Building a partnership for delivery

Best Practice Network could not deliver its programmes without working in close partnership with teaching school hubs, academy trusts and early years chains, as well as individual schools and other organisations.

The partner network is crucial and after a year of steady growth now stands at 86 delivery partners. This consists of 15 teaching school hubs, 29 academy trusts, 8 early year chains and 34 others.

Most of those partners deliver the suite of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs), with many offering our ECF programme alongside. Our new Early Years SEN programme is delivered through our early years partners and there are now a number offering ITT.

The scale of the partnership network’s delivery is significant. In 2022 the network ran 244 ECF partner-led groups and 368 partner-led NPQ groups. Those programmes couldn’t be delivered without an army of facilitators; there are now 699 trained and active facilitators across the partner workforce.

New partners can be found across the country, including:

Ҍ Reach South MAT, Wessex MAT and Palladian Academy Trust , delivering NPQs in the South West

Ҍ Primitas Learning Partnership, delivering NPQs in the West Midlands

Ҍ Nova Education Trust , set to deliver ECF in the East Midlands

Ҍ Titan Partnership (West Midlands) and Cumbria Teacher Training (North West) will deliver ITT.