Many see collaboration as being key to system-wide improvement. Andrew Redman discusses how one hub of schools is working together in Lowestoft, helping to overcome many of the challenges faced by their coastal communities

The coastal school conundrum, highlighted once more by the recent Social Market Foundation report (January 2016), is characterised by a lack of good teachers, low aspirations, educational isolation and difficulties brought about by changes to education policy.

At the Active Learning Trust (ALT), our learning hubs, based geographically in Cambridge, Lowestoft and Ipswich, are designed to create strong professional partnerships across all ALT academies, and to stimulate and support schools across all these challenges.

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