--- title: "Work with or join us" url: "https://partnershiplearning.com/work-with-or-join-us" school: "Partnership Learning" --- # Join us Partnership Learning welcomes approaches from maintained schools, single academies or MATs interested in working with or joining us. Why Partnership Learning? - A collaborative structure, based on leaders and governors trusted to drive their schools forward in line with their own vision, developing each school’s individual ethos, character and approach - A strong role for local governing boards, with a full range of responsibilities and powers - A positive culture of school-to-school support - Resources kept under school control, with **only 2%** **of income retained** to provide central services - Effective central services, provided within the 2% retention, including: - School Improvement - Finance Support - Human Resources - Employee Wellbeing Programme - Payroll - Legal Advice - Facilities and Estates support, guidance and management software - ICT strategic advice and guidance - Website hosting and support - GDPR management - Governance support - Optional additional services, including: - ICT Support - Planned Preventive Maintenance Programme - Pupil Attendance - Access to capital investment from the Trust’s £3.5m annual capital allocation The Trust: - Currently supports 20 schools – secondary, primary, all-through, special and University Technical College – across five local authorities (Hillingdon, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Waltham Forest and Southend) serving around 15,000 pupils. - Is large enough to operate efficiently but small enough to enable working as a family of schools - Encompasses Partnership London SCITT – a successful Initial Teacher Training provider which gives access to high quality Early Career Teachers. - Is financially sound with significant reserves - Has successfully incorporated both individual joiner schools and an established MAT - Is in the top 20% of MATs across all major outcome measures and in the top 5% for most - Offers services to schools outside the Trust, including ICT support Further information If you would like to explore further either working with or joining us, please email us at or phone 0203 909 2333 ### About Us - [Meet the Team](https://partnershiplearning.com/meet-the-team) - [Vision and Ethos](https://partnershiplearning.com/vision-and-ethos) - [Join us](https://partnershiplearning.com/work-with-or-join-us) ![Partnership Learning](https://files.schudio.com/partnership-learning-trust/images/logo/Partnership-Learning-footer-logo.png) ### Partnership Learning Parsloes Ave Dagenham RM9 5QS 0203 909 2333 © Copyright 2025–2026 Partnership Learning School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://partnershiplearning.com/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)