Hounslow Education Partnership Finances 2022/23 | Hounslow Education Partnership

Welcome to the HEP Annual Report for 2022/23.

Here is an overview of some of the key activities we have delivered, with and for our schools, this academic year.

We have thoroughly enjoyed working closely with our schools to provide high quality training and meetings throughout the year.

We'd like to thank our HEP chairs and members for their excellent work and support. Our valued partnership ensures that we continue to deliver the best possible outcomes for the children and young people of Hounslow.

Financial Summary

HEP’s business targets support our schools.

Our total income for 2022/23 was £571k, £55k above the original budget. This included income from schools of £432k, LA linked income of £131k, £4k from STEM learning to support subject networks and £4k from Hounslow Promise for the Christmas present campaign. In addition to membership fees and School Improvement Grant totalling £230k, income from schools comprised the following work streams: £100k Fair Access, £59k Primary Peer Challenge, £39k John Yates training and £3k HEP training and CPD. LA income comprised £74k income for Specialist Home Engagement Leads (SHEL), £45k VRU grant, £10k for catch up funding project management, £1k for the Get Hounslow Reading Conference and £1k for Ofsted training.

Costs of sale were £526k, comprising staff costs of £181k, partnership meeting costs of £26k and £319k that is directly attributable to specific income streams. This was a saving of £28k against the budget.

General overheads were £46k, £9k below the budget due to savings and some unspent contingency.

The full-year position is a net deficit of £2k, against a budgeted deficit of £94k. Unspent balances of £111k are held as ring-fenced funds within the overall carry forward of £311k. These include VRU grant, Primary to Secondary Transitions funding, SHEL funding, Domestic Abuse Project funding, Peer Challenge income, Fair Access income and Subject Network funds, which we plan to spend on relevant projects over the next 1-3 years. Unrestricted reserves, after eliminating ring-fenced funds, are £200k, a surplus of £4k against the budget.

The majority of HEP income streams are exempt from corporation tax and we do not expect to incur a tax liability for 2022/23.

Note: These figures are based on those to be included in the full, audited accounts for the period ended 31 August 2023. The full Annual Report and Accounts will be made available via the HEP website once published.

For previous years' Annual Reports click here

For previous years' audited financial reports please go to the HEP Company Information section in the Members Area of the website.

Primary Summary

Delivering excellence in all we do for the children and young people of Hounslow.

Peer Challenge

A quality assured peer review programme in its 10th year
45 schools are actively involved in school improvement across the partnership

Primary Subject Networks

14 curriculum subjects expertly facilitated
Over 1000 teachers attended network sessions in 2022/23

Delivered by Hounslow Education Partnership, the Primary Subject Network area of the website is designed to further support the subject leader training programme, a joint practice development identified in Peer Challenge and funded by HEP. Developed in association with our partners, each section provides a range of resources, information and links to professional associations and useful websites to support planning.

Get Hounslow Reading

Over 350 teachers involved across 44 schools
Over 10,000 pupils reached and counting ...

Conference 2023 report

2022/23 report

SixintoSeven Transition Portal for all schools

Digitising transition for Y6 across Hounslow
Supporting 3554 pupils in 2023

Together with Hounslow schools, we have developed a bespoke digital transition service to support the best transitions possible for children moving from primary to secondary schools.

Aims

Modernise our way of working
Reduce administration and manual input
Add security and GDPR compliance

Significant improvements have been made to the portal, since the start of this project, including:

- The pre-upload of year 6 pupils from the council's data team
- A separate SEND area with an option to flag pupils who need further discussion with the secondary school

School Led improvement Primary Group (SLIPs)

Focused on sharing best practices and driving improvements in teaching and learning through joint practice development
Facilitates professional development, data-driven approaches, and partnerships through the outcomes of Peer Challenge

Secondary Summary

We respond to the needs of schools to build the capacity of the school-led system.

Secondary Subject Networks

Develop professional relationships between subject leaders from different schools which facilitates ongoing peer support
Facilitate sharing and development of good practice related to subject teaching, learning and assessment

Secondary Subject Networks meet on a termly basis allowing for collaboration, best practice sharing and middle leader development. They cover the following subjects:

How does it work?

Subject Networks are overseen by the SLTL group within HEP schools who:

Maintain up-to-date contact lists
Support processes, communications and time frames internally

Expert practitioners, endorsed by their Headteacher are nominated as Leads for these networks.

Pre-meeting collaboration

Ahead of each meeting members contribute agenda suggestions and rsvp to each meeting via a shared document distributed by HEP. Leads finalise and distribute the agenda a week in advance of their meeting. This ensures each network has autonomy over discussions.

Report 2022/23

Please click here for the 2022/23 Secondary Subject Networks evaluation

Senior Leaders of Teaching and Learning

Develop professional relationships between senior colleagues across HEP facilitating ongoing peer support
To provide a mechanism for efficient and effective consultation, development and information flow between SLTL and HEP on programmes

SLTL meet half-termly. The group is chaired by Laura Ellener (Headteacher - Chiswick School).

SLTL meet as a whole group the majority of the time, but also meet in SIP collaboration groups twice per year. These enable deeper conversations and discussion on specific foci agreed by the group and updated each year.

The collaboration group titles for this year were:

Creating a culture of high aspiration for all
Curriculum design and support (T levels /SEF/timetable/staffing)
Whole school literacy/reading focus

Develop your A level Teaching

A forum for Hounslow teachers and leaders with a passion and responsibility for excellent provision at post-16
A programme of high quality training that is based on current and relevant educational theory and research, supporting the in-school CPD offer.

DAT Report 2022/23

Please click here to read the 2022/23 DAT evaluation

STEM Enthuse Partnership

2 year partnership building a bespoke training offer for teachers at all stages of their career
Focusing on improving KS5 outcomes

HEP secondary schools are able to opt into a STEM Enthuse Partnership (EP) with a defined focus around raising KS5 outcomes. This began in November 2022 and runs for two years. Currently 12 schools have opted in and this EP brings with it £20,000 of funding held in a virtual pot to be spent on training. Each term of the two-year partnership, once reporting has been submitted by HEP and approved by STEM, HEP receives £2000. This is being fed into Secondary Subject Networks.

During 2022/23 £6070 was spent from the virtual pot on:

STEM facilitators supporting DAT meeting delivery
HEP teachers attending STEM-delivered courses, many of which also come with large bursaries to contribute to cover costs
Delivering the Science Technician network meetings

There are 4 HEP teachers and 1 technician who are 'Professional Development Lead' (PDL) trained. They are able to lead training and access resources made by STEM to deliver sessions for HEP schools and beyond. Their schools can be reimbursed for their time using STEM funding from the virtual pot.

Plans for 2023/24:

To spend a further £10,000 from the virtual pot on both STEM delivered and HEP PDL delivered CPD
To receive a further £6000 of payments into HEP following termly reporting

Testimonial

‘It was such a valuable experience, even without all the instructors and course leaders, it was so useful to discuss ideas with other Physics teachers who are really keen on stretching our most able and inspiring students.’

Teacher who attended 'Inspiring A level Physics’ a residential CPD fully funded by STEM

SixintoSeven

Digitising transition for Y6 across Hounslow
Supporting 3554 pupils in 2023

Focus30 project in partnership with Brentford Football Club Community Sport Trust (BFCCST)

Now in its second full year, HEP secured a further £40,000 funding from The Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) for a weekly intervention programme to support secondary students facing barriers to learning and struggling to manage their own behaviour, impacting on their achievements in school. BFCCST coaches work with small groups of targeted students (Year 7-9) for half a day each week for 8 weeks.

Focus30 has two elements which sees students take part in a classroom lesson working through key identified topics, followed by a practical sports session. BFCCST coaches deliver the full programme in school.

Project target outcomes:

Remove barriers to learning
Develop skills and strategies to manage own behaviour for improved learning
Reinforce positive attitude to learning
Raise aspirations and a sense of achievement

Statistics:

72% of students said that they were better at taking responsibility for their own behaviour
70% felt having completed the programme that they could now manage their own feelings and emotions
70% stated that they were better at taking responsibility to owning up to their own actions which often get them in trouble

Feedback from participating schools:

“Prior to the programme starting we sat down with the BFCCST staff, we discussed the criteria of the programme and then went back to look over our behaviour reports from the start of the year. We wanted to select students who were currently struggling with barriers to learning due to a range of different factors including neighbourhood deprivation as we felt they would gain so much from this programme. As a school we measured the impact through student feedback and observation of students’ overall behaviour during lesson time and unstructured time.”

What our members say

Ofsted Inspection Training – "Four days well spent! Supporting the development of our school under the guidance of a skilled trainer with a wealth of experience across the primary range was invaluable."

Primary Subject Networks – "The content in the sessions covers all aspects of high quality practice in Maths and it makes me reflective on my practice in class and how I lead and help develop other teachers."

Primary Subject Networks – "Meeting other subject leaders and sharing, makes me feel better about what we are delivering and that we are on the right track."

Develop your A level Teaching – "It was really nice to be able to talk to other A level German teachers as there aren’t very many and we could share our experiences."

Contingent Talk with Books – "Such a worthwhile project for Early Years, which you can see working right in front of your eyes. Well-planned and organised project, fantastic expert who inspires us all."

Get Hounslow Reading – "The biggest impact has been on our teachers’ enthusiasm for reading/books and their knowledge of high quality texts, finding innovative ways to engage readers through displays, book talk and story time."

Secondary Subject Networks – "There are so many useful takeaways from the meeting to help improve teaching and learning and they are things which can easily be put into place after the meeting."

Get Hounslow Reading – “There can be no doubt of the enthusiasm of Hounslow teachers and impact of their hard work on growing a Reading for Pleasure practice in their schools over this academic year. Many teachers said that the time to talk and share practice was what they valued most highly.” Charlotte Raby – Programme Facilitator

Secondary Subject Networks – “I really enjoy the content and the supportive group of fellow geography leaders discussing ideas in a non-judgmental, relatively informal way. The group certainly helps each other and fundamentally discusses relevant topics which are benefiting me.”

Get Hounslow Reading – "Very informative and helpful. A lovely chance to reflect. Excellent, enthusiastic delivery which would inspire anyone! You are very knowledgeable and sessions are well-organised. Thank you!”

Challenging Behaviour Training – “Great training, thank you for all your expertise and advice. I learnt lots of things about different ways that can affect pupils’ behaviour and how to deal with different situations."

Deep Dive Subject Leader Training – “Thank you for the very detailed and thorough subject leader checklist. It is an extremely useful and much necessary exercise. It's been an eye opener. Thank you”

Develop your A Level Teaching – “A much appreciated forum to apply pedagogy to a subject specific domain, with such rich professional talk after the keynotes in the Economics breakout session.”

Contact us

The success of the Hounslow Education Partnership depends, in part, on good communication so please do get in touch to give us your feedback or about anything else you would like to discuss.

Email: info@hounsloweducationpartnership.co.uk

Finances 2022/23