Our Mission

 The New Schools Network is an independent, not for profit organisation set up in 2009.

 

The Network aims to improve the quality of education – particularly for the most deprived – by increasing the number of independent, innovative schools within the state sector. 

Schools should drive social mobility. Talent and hard work, not background, should determine success. Yet successive governments – of all parties – have failed to make opportunity equal in our schools. The wealthy can buy a good education - paying for private schools or by buying a house in the right neighbourhood. Others are denied those options. The Network believes that allowing new schools – accountable to government, but not run by politicians – will raise achievement across the country. We will help groups who want to set up new schools, and work to create the conditions which allow them to succeed.