Place-based collaboration: building our Theories of Change - Fair Education Alliance
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When tackling educational inequality, who you work with and where you work matters — this article shows Theory of Change thinking being stress-tested across three of England's most deprived regions.
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Theory Briefing
- The Fair Education Alliance is building Theories of Change across Liverpool, South Yorkshire, and West Midlands — three regions with deep, place-specific inequality.
- Place-based collaboration assumes local context shapes outcomes, challenging one-size-fits-all education policy and top-down reform models.
- Bringing partnership groups together to co-develop change logic tests whether collective impact frameworks can survive real-world geographic and social complexity.