This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Senior Education Liaison Officer, Rachel Cross, for the attention of Headteachers in Slough.
The Slough Local School Improvement Fund arises from of an agreement by schools forum to use an underspend of centrally retained funds to support local school improvement initiatives. In addition it was recently topped up by the council and the total of the local school improvement fund is £229,500. Schools are able to ‘bid’ for funding for school to school support or to work on collaborative projects, linked to local priorities. The funds are held by the Slough Teaching School Alliance on behalf of the Slough schools’ community and can be accessed through a simple application and assessment process.