Haringey Education Partnership

Haringey Education Partnership (HEP) is a not-for-profit school improvement company, set up by schools, for schools. Our member schools own and govern us. Since 2018, we have grown to more than 150 member schools across Haringey, Enfield and Waltham Forest in north London. They span every phase, from nursery to post-16, including special schools, alternative provision, maintained schools and academies. We also work with schools and trusts beyond our boroughs.

What makes us different is that we combine national expertise with local depth. We turn research, policy and inspection change into clear, practical guidance. Then we work alongside leaders in their schools to put it into practice.

Our team of more than 100 quality-assured Improvement and Support Partners includes serving and recent headteachers, and senior leaders who specialise in SEND, inclusion, behaviour, curriculum and pedagogy. When a leader calls us, they speak to someone who has done the job.

We ask every member school what it thinks of us each year. In our 2025/26 survey, every responding school said it would recommend HEP, and schools rated us 4.8 out of 5 for acting with values and integrity.
We answer to schools, not shareholders, and we reinvest what we earn in our work with schools and in our charity, HEP Horizons.

We work with trusts to develop bespoke school improvement offers, based on our experience working with our 150+ member schools. Trusts can choose to work with us by accessing one or more of the offers below. We agree pricing for trusts that buy together.

Virtual Professional Development: hundreds of live online sessions for everyone in your schools, from teaching assistants, class teachers and subject leaders to SENDCos, school business managers, senior leaders and headteachers.

HEP Science: a complete science curriculum for Years 1 to 6. Every unit comes with pupil booklets, lesson slides, retrieval assessments and vocabulary resources, backed by curriculum mapping, training and support for your teachers.

The Mini Bro Code and The Bro Code: fully resourced modules that challenge misogyny and sexism, written for pupils in Key Stage 2 and in Key Stages 3 and 4.

Ofsted preparation: training on the renewed inspection framework, from self-evaluation workshops to practising the planning call. For trusts, we build bespoke programmes, including whole-school reviews, leadership coaching and support when inspection is called. We can work online and in person, whatever your trust needs.

SEND and inclusion: live online training for staff, and bespoke trust programmes led by our specialist SEND and inclusion team.

Strategic consultancy: bespoke support for trust leaders, shaped with our Deputy Chief Executive and drawing on primary and secondary expertise.

Designed for your trust. We help you ensure consistent quality across every school, working alongside your central team.

Our work focuses on lasting improvement for the children in every school and trust we support. We believe the best improvement is led from within, so we help your leaders do the work themselves rather than doing it for them.

Since 2018, we have worked with schools of every phase across north London, both maintained schools and academies. That experience shapes how we work with trusts: we start with your context and priorities, not a fixed package.

We combine challenge with support, and we do not stop at diagnosis. We agree a small number of priorities with your leaders, then stay through implementation until the change shows in what pupils learn and achieve.
In one multi-academy trust, each school has its own Improvement Partner. They meet the trust’s executive team and compare notes with each other, so the trust sees an independent, joined-up picture of every school.
We also contribute to the wider system. Our Chief Executive sits on the steering group of the Area-based Education Partnerships Association and is a London adviser for the Department for Education’s Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) programme.

Any school leader can sign up for our free Monday Briefing and access our insight reports, including on those on Inclusion Bases and AI.