Systems and place-based change

Watch recordings of all the main sessions from the Fair Education Summit 2025 and relive those key conversations from the day.

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.

Today we announced the Mayoral Combined Authorities selected for three Collaboration Partnerships, as part of our ‘Neighbourhood to National’ strategy. ​     ​​ 

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.

Following the launch of our Neighbourhood to National strategy, members across the Fair Education Alliance are already putting Collective Voice, Collective Action and Collective Strength into motion.

Take a look at what’s coming up in the next few months.

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.

Our new strategy, From Neighbourhood to National, is rooted in systems change - tackling not just policies and practices, but also the resources, relationships, power and mental models that hold inequity in place.

By taking this system-wide approach, through our three core strands – Collective Voice, Collective Action and Collective Strength – we can bring lasting change.  

A curated summer list of powerful reads, podcasts and reflections on systems change, place-based approaches, and collective action — handpicked by the FEA team to inspire fresh thinking ahead of our new strategy launch.

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.

Yesterday, we hosted our final member workshop to shape our strategy for 2025-30. What did we learn from the workshops and our member survey?

In this blog, our Director of Operations & Impact, Rachel, shares why we’re refreshing our strategy now and how we’re approaching it.  

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.