The aim of our work is to provide schools with both personal improvement strategies and also professional practice improvement strategies. However we recognise that these can often mean that schools are given plenty of prescription but very little in the way of ongoing support and developmental. All too often consultant experiences are positive at the moment of input, but fade quickly. We seek to form a longer-term relationship with our schools that will be built around tailored programmes for senior management teams, head teachers, governors and the teaching and ancillary staff. We believe this requires very targeted and specific support strategies built on joint analysis of the problems and issues that schools wish to address. The strategy would involve joint audit of the school and its current practices; discussions of the school vision and where it wishes to be; consideration of the issues that limit development and change; strategies for action; formative and summative evaluation of development and change; support, development and reflective techniques to promote change.

Our view of capacity building rests on a common vocabulary that identifies three high level elements; aspirations, strategy and organisational skills, three foundation elements; systems and infrastructure, human resources, and organisational structure with a cultural element which serves to connect all the others.

Importantly the process would be co-operative and involve progressive work with the school using a whole range of support frameworks for staff. It would apply peer mentoring, team building strategies and the latest practices from both the public and private sectors to enhance the working environment of all those concerned to provide the best possible education for our pupils.

Our team is made up of school managers, senior staff from Higher Education, members of OfSTED HMI, and human resource managers from the private sector. All of these people are concerned to help you promote and develop your school.