1. Partnership – process and outcomes: deliberating the impact – what it can mean for a SCITT
Alys Finch
Executive Lead, Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance SCITT
Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance SCITT: ytcascitt.co.uk

2. Context
“Our vision is to ensure the best possible education for young people in Yorkshire schools through our collective passion for Initial Teacher Training. Our partnership of schools, external providers and inspirational young people in our schools leads on the selection, design and delivery of the teacher training programme across the Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance. We strive for excellence: the rigour, experiential and academic learning that comprise the YTCA SCITT teacher training course are matched by excellent pastoral care and Masters’ level work delivered in tandem with our university partner. The Yorkshire Three Counties School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (YTCA SCITT) provides a ‘mixed economy’ of training, an opportunity to "grow our own" talent and respond strategically to succession planning across our partnership. We invest in all of our communities across three Yorkshire counties of very different social and economic needs, developing established staff and enhancing the improvement of learning in all partnership schools whilst producing outstanding newly-qualified classroom teachers. Our Vision, Purposes and Outcomes: All students in all of our schools have a right to the best education and learning opportunities through being taught by outstanding teachers. All teachers who train through the Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (YTCA SCITT) programme will become reflective, inspirational and continuously developing practitioners whose impact on learners is significant.”
Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance SCITT: ytcascitt.co.uk

3. Context
SCITT built to meet the needs and challenges of schools in the Alliance
The Community dimension
The wider moral purpose
Learning from others
Diversification and development
Learners at the centre
Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance SCITT: ytcascitt.co.uk

4. The Challenges Recruitment and retention Competition and complexity
Needs of learners, needs of schools
‘shifting sands’: the Carter Review, update reports, policy for schools and ITT providers
Money, money, money
Principles, pedagogy and practice
Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance SCITT: ytcascitt.co.uk

5. The Opportunities Diversification of offer
Working beyond ITT to look at career-long, community learning
Long-term recruitment ‘pipelines’
Broadening partnerships
The Portfolio Programme
Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance SCITT: ytcascitt.co.uk

6. Microcosm versus macrocosm
“ No [educational establishment] is an island”
Recruitment, retention, regeneration
Succession planning and ‘future-planning’
Voices in the void – connecting and continuously developing
Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance SCITT: ytcascitt.co.uk

7. And what it’s all really about…
Yorkshire Three Counties Alliance SCITT: ytcascitt.co.uk