We drive Collective Action

Hear directly from our members what this has meant for them and the impact it has had on their organisations:

Below we have outlined the ways in which members can get involved in the Fair Education Alliance’s Collective Action:

Collective action to steer our collective message and agenda

The FEA secretariat hosts regular monthly 'Overarching Campaign Working Groups' for ALL member organisations. This group helps us frame and develop the Fair Education Alliance’s overall message and collective agenda, with information fed in from all other working groups. Importantly this group is then used to guide all our work – including what we focus our collective action on, our policy and influencing (statements, letters, media etc) and also shapes our support for Scaling Impact Programmes.

2. Support for member-led collective action

The Fair Education Alliance Secretariat will support members to collaborate and take collective action on specific issues - this might be to either collectively advocate on policy and practice and/or to share learnings and practice between organisations on topics.

3. Joining up with others:

Collaboration is key to creating a fairer and more equitable education system. Therefore, if there is already significant collective action happening and momentum that has been established by another organisation, we will join and amplify that group rather than replicating.

4. Policy and influencing:

The Fair Education Alliance will continue to seek member feed-in for letter/statement/inquiry responses and will convene one off groups to continue this work. Find out more here.

5. Scaling Impact:

The FEA secretariat will continue to run our three Awards (The Scaling, Intrapreneurship and Innovation Awards) helping members and the wider public to Scale and Innovate impactful solutions. We will also run our annual Fair Education Impact Festival to help all our member organisations learn, connect and support each other to scale. Find out more here.

Active Collective Action Working Groups :

AI Working Group:

This group is for leaders within FEA members seeking to utilise AI within their organisations and address systemic challenges to its use to close the education disadvantage gap. The group exists to share strategic learning on AI developments to ensure uptake of AGI is maximised, effective and safe.

The group’s first meeting will be on Thursday 20th June and will meet quarterly.

Delivery:

This group is focused on sharing best practice and supporting each other to ensure all programme provision provided is high quality.

This group meets monthly.

Early Years:

This group is focused on influencing government policy in this area for the benefit of all children alongside building connections amongst those working in early childhood education and care.

This group meets every 2 months.

Submission to Labour’s Early Years Review - December 2023

Overarching Campaign Working Groups:

This group is focused on sharing campaigning updates across the membership. This group is hosted centrally by the FEA secretariat and all members are encouraged to attend.

This group meets monthly.

Parental Engagement Forum:

This group, led by Learning with Parents, is focused on driving forward a shared understanding across the sector of effective parental engagement and its pivotal role in addressing the attainment gap, and to transform parents’ role in education.

This group meets quarterly.

Tackling Racial Inequality:

This group is focused on equality, inclusion and diversity in education. We are currently discussing racial diversity in the teaching workforce, particularly focusing on school leadership.

Tuition Advocacy:

This group, led by Action Tutoring, is focused on advocating on the value of tuition in supporting schools and colleges. It is particularly focused on making tuition a sustainable part of the education landscape.

This group meets monthly.

Wellbeing and inclusion:

This group is focused on embedding long-term provisions for wellbeing and inclusion into the education system, including via a broad curriculum and interventions that support the needs of all pupils.

This group meets every 6 weeks.

Youth Engagement Working Group:

This group is focused on providing practical workshops on how to start, improve and grow different elements of your youth engagement.