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From early years to employment: three place-based partnerships driving change
Our Place-Based Collaboration Partnerships are deep, long-term, funded projects to improve life chances for children and young people in partnership with three mayoral combined authorities (MCAs).
Each partnership focuses on a different stage of the journey from childhood to employment, reflecting the priorities of the region while contributing to shared learning across the Alliance.
Here’s an introduction to each Collaboration Partnership from the MCA project leads.
Relive the Fair Education Summit
Watch recordings of all the main sessions from the Fair Education Summit 2025 and relive those key conversations from the day.
Reflections from a youth judge for the FEA’s place-based Collaboration Partnerships
Youth Steering Group member Aisha writes about her experience helping to decide which Mayoral Combined Authorities would receive over £500,000 in support and funding.
Fair Education Alliance, supported by Bloomberg, enlists Metro Mayors as part of £6 million programme to tackle educational inequity
Today we announced the Mayoral Combined Authorities selected for three Collaboration Partnerships, as part of our ‘Neighbourhood to National’ strategy.
One week to go: building momentum for the Fair Education Summit 2025
With less than a week to go until the Fair Education Summit 2025, we’re sharing some of the key speakers and panellists taking part in the day.
Building our place-based team
We’re recruiting for three Head of Collaboration Partnership roles- one for each of our Mayoral Combined Authority areas. These roles will sit at the heart of our place-based work spending time embedded in their region each week, enabling deep cross-sector collaboration and driving system-wide change.
Communities in the lead: opportunity, inequity and the power of local change
At the Fair Education Alliance, we’ve long recognised the power of place. Over the past five years, we’ve explored how systems-level, community-led collaboration can transform outcomes for children and young people. Read more about how we’re putting place at the heart of our strategy going forward.
Innovation Award Winner - PLACE to page and practice
Sean Harris, Director of PLACE and Innovation Award Winner discusses the significance of place-based approaches to address inequality in the Tees Valley and emphasises the importance of collaboration.
Game changing: Systems and place-based change
Jacquie Bance de Vasquez from Magic Breakfast shares her views on the recent Systems and Place-Based Change workshops held by the Fair Education Alliance.