By working together, through federation and other partnership arrangements schools can:
Raise their standards, for example, by shared training, encouraging their staff to support each other and developing integrated curriculum and pastoral policies.
Offer pupils a wider range of opportunities, for example, by holding joint activities or sharing facilities or teachers that might be difficult to sustain individually.
Develop a range of extended services and activities for pupils and the wider community.
Improve their leadership and management, for example, through shared headship or School Business Managers
Maximise the sharing of resources, taking advantage of economies of scale.
The ability of federate under a single governing body could also be of particular benefit to small schools or schools in more isolated rural areas, opening up opportunities to share management and governing body responsibility and curriculum expertise.
