How we work
We bring together residents, professionals and decision-makers to co-design a programme that is bespoke to the needs of the local community.
We call this way of working “place-based change”.
Our Theory of Change sets out the steps that we take in order to effect change.
The target beneficiaries are the children and young people living in the communities where we work.
Together with local residents, professionals and leaders, we:
Our Principles
There are four principles that guide our work and to which we are held accountable. We believe that following these principles, together with our partners and local leaders, gives us all the greatest chance of success.
No single organisation can solve the problem of educational inequity, but together we can. The collective approach sees partners working together to deliver a solution to a specific social problem.
- We identify and communicate the common agenda, ensuring local buy in.
- We ensure clear measurement frameworks are in place that can be shared.
- We champion activities that reinforce and enhance one another’s impact, leading to a greater positive change on the child than if delivered alone.
- We encourage clear and open communication, and a commitment to a transparent community of practice.
- Unlike collaboration or partnership, collective impact initiatives have a centralised infrastructure with dedicated staff, known as the backbone. Our role as this backbone is to help you shift from acting alone to acting in concert.
Being research informed provides the greatest chance of success. We need your knowledge, insight and data to understand need and observe what is and isn’t working. This way we can ensure improvements are effective and lasting.
- Identifying need and careful planning gives us a clear idea of what success looks like
- We work hard at creating a culture of improvement
- We use a well-validated and standardised measurement framework
- We produce clear reporting to create actionable insights
- We use qualitative processes to listen and respond to the voices of those with lived experience
We recognise the importance of understanding an area and believe local leaders are best placed to discover what works, what doesn’t, and what will have the most positive impact on their community.
- Decision making is owned by local stakeholders
- We co-create a shared vision for improving outcomes
- We build a better understanding among local governance groups of “how” and “why” collaborative interventions can work, highlighting the unique strength that comes with being able to adapt to the local context.
- We build the confidence of local networks to question and challenge entrenched practices.
- We respond to those who have lived experience when we deliver services
- We commit to understanding and meeting the needs of children and young people
- We advocate for the voice of young people when we talk about making positive changes
Transforming outcomes requires a long term, focused, intensive approach. We work with you to develop people and culture.
- We enable others to make better use of data, insights and evidence to identify and remove barriers to learning.
- We build the capabilities of staff using professional development that respects their existing abilities and potential
- We support commissioning behaviours to create greater savings which in turn mean more effective preventative work can be afforded
- We advocate for the needs of the communities we work with when talking to system and policy leaders in order to gain the resource and conditions required to transform outcomes
- We take our learning from the ground to system and policy leaders to better inform future changes
Our Values
- Collaboration – we drive collaboration in everything we do, supporting our colleagues and partners to work better together by pooling resources, learning and expertise.
- Commitment – we are committed to achieving only the best in the long-term for the children, young people and communities that we serve, and we place sustainability at the heart of our work.
- Curiosity – we ask questions, listen without bias, and strive to keep an open mind.
- Integrity – all our work is guided by our values and mission; we are willing to have difficult conversations to ensure this, and use clear processes and decision-making mechanisms to hold ourselves accountable.
- Humility – we understand that the people in the communities we work with are the experts on their own lives, and we are constantly learning from them.
How we work
Right to Succeed’s brings together the professionals driving improvement in education to build on and grow the great work being done to improve outcomes for young people.
Education is data rich, but rarely does that data provide actionable insight that gives professionals confidence of what approaches/interventions might be most effective in improving outcomes in their school. Part of the problem is that we are often considering data-sets that don’t give us the depth of understanding of the development of the children we see in front of us.
We take a developmental focus, helping schools to understand the capability development of children. This allows the school to understand what capabilities might be holding back a child’s development, and consider what approaches might best develop these young people.
We do this because many of the most compelling research reports that consider the impact of various educational interventions are approaches that focus on developing a child’s capability-set.
We see capability as falling into the cognitive, social & emotional, and physical realms, but with some key capability sets that sit across a couple of these realms including meta-cognition (thinking about thinking).
Our Mission
Right to Succeed is a collective impact charity. We bring local and national partners together to overcome the barriers that are preventing children living in poverty doing well at school and beyond.
Our Principles
There are four principles that guide our work and to which we are held accountable. We believe that following these principles, together with our partners and local leaders, gives us all the greatest chance of success.
No single organisation can solve the problem of educational inequity, but together we can. The collective approach sees partners working together to deliver a solution to a specific social problem.
Read more...- We identify and communicate the common agenda, ensuring local buy in.
- We ensure clear measurement frameworks are in place that can be shared.
- We champion activities that reinforce and enhance one another’s impact, leading to a greater positive change on the child than if delivered alone.
- We encourage clear and open communication, and a commitment to a transparent community of practice.
- Unlike collaboration or partnership, collective impact initiatives have a centralised infrastructure with dedicated staff, known as the backbone. Our role as this backbone is to help you shift from acting alone to acting in concert.
Being research informed provides the greatest chance of success. We need your knowledge, insight and data to understand need and observe what is and isn’t working. This way we can ensure improvements are effective and lasting.
Read more...- Identifying need and careful planning gives us a clear idea of what success looks like
- We work hard at creating a culture of improvement
- We use a well-validated and standardised measurement framework
- We produce clear reporting to create actionable insights
- We use qualitative processes to listen and respond to the voices of those with lived experience
We recognise the importance of understanding an area and believe local leaders are best placed to discover what works, what doesn’t, and what will have the most positive impact on their community.
Read more...- Decision making is owned by local stakeholders
- We co-create a shared vision for improving outcomes
- We build a better understanding among local governance groups of “how” and “why” collaborative interventions can work, highlighting the unique strength that comes with being able to adapt to the local context.
- We build the confidence of local networks to question and challenge entrenched practices.
- We respond to those who have lived experience when we deliver services
- We commit to understanding and meeting the needs of children and young people
- We advocate for the voice of young people when we talk about making positive changes
Transforming outcomes requires a long term, focused, intensive approach. We work with you to develop people and culture.
'Read more...- We enable others to make better use of data, insights and evidence to identify and remove barriers to learning.
- We build the capabilities of staff using professional development that respects their existing abilities and potential
- We support commissioning behaviours to create greater savings which in turn mean more effective preventative work can be afforded
- We advocate for the needs of the communities we work with when talking to system and policy leaders in order to gain the resource and conditions required to transform outcomes
- We take our learning from the ground to system and policy leaders to better inform future changes
Our Values
- Collaboration – we drive collaboration in everything we do, supporting our colleagues and partners to work better together by pooling resources, learning and expertise.
- Commitment – we are committed to achieving only the best in the long-term for the children, young people and communities that we serve, and we place sustainability at the heart of our work.
- Curiosity – we ask questions, listen without bias, and strive to keep an open mind.
- Integrity – all our work is guided by our values and mission; we are willing to have difficult conversations to ensure this, and use clear processes and decision-making mechanisms to hold ourselves accountable.
- Humility – we understand that the people in the communities we work with are the experts on their own lives, and we are constantly learning from them.