Building foundations stage

At this stage there is a core group of partners that have interest and capacity (time/ authority/ scope) to progress the idea.  Early scoping has indicated that there is a need and appetite, and that the ‘school as community platform’ model would not be duplicating or complicating the local system. There are other partnerships and relationships that are needed to realise a coordinated response.

Signposts

• There is in principle endorsement/ authorisation from critical leaders.
• There is an appetite to collaborate towards a shared goal of improving education outcomes but not a shared understanding of what that would look like
• There is a backbone (coordinating) entity that is able to lead and progress engagement with core partners, alignment of goals and defining high level measures of success.