The Leadership, Empowerment & Improvement Workstream is designed to promote connections across the eight local authorities and support collaborative improvement across the West Partnership.
This workstream has been designed in to grow an empowered learning system, supporting leaders in all parts of the West Partnership.
A range of opportunities are available for teachers, middle and senior leaders with a focus on enhancing practice and developing capacity for leading school improvement. These are laid out in the tiles below.

Alison Drever
WORKSTREAM LEAD OFFICER
Sector background
Primary
Areas of responsibility:
Operational leadership of the Leadership, Empowerment & Improvement Workstream, including:
• Partnership work to deliver senior leadership coaching, mentoring and learning sets
• Thinking about Headship Programme development and delivery
• Strategic and operational lead for Improving our Classroom Programme
Primary
Areas of responsibility:
Operational leadership of the Leadership, Empowerment & Improvement Workstream, including:
• Partnership work to deliver senior leadership coaching, mentoring and learning sets
• Thinking about Headship Programme development and delivery
• Strategic and operational lead for Improving our Classroom Programme
IT AIMS TO:
- support and develop leaders in school and ELC settings across the West Partnership
- provide opportunities for leaders to connect and network
- improve outcomes for all children and young people
- make equity core to all aspects of the learning system
Outcomes:
- Participants connect more with colleagues in other WP local authorities with a focus on improving experiences for children and young people by June 2022.
- Participants demonstrate changes in their practice that lead to improved experiences for children and young people by June 2022.
- Collaborative activities being taken forward by the specialist networks lead to increased sharing of approaches and practice that support continuous improvement by June 2022.