The School Partnerships Alliance (S.P.A.) researches, enables and promotes meaningful partnerships between different schools in the state and independent sectors for the benefit of children across the national education system. Our over-arching objective is to be a force for school improvement and the strongest pupil outcomes, informed by research and driven by impact. To achieve this, we need to: • Raise the profile, status and access to partnership working • Better understand and evaluate the impact of partnership working • Equip partnership leads with a common language and framework that will help schools at every stage of partnership engagement and development.