We help schools build cradle-to-career support so that
Every child can enjoy a life of choice and opportunity.
Our programmes
Schools are already at the heart of their neighbourhoods
Almost every family walks through a school gate. Schools are trusted, they know children for years, and they notice early when something isn't right. That makes them the natural place to start joining up everything else a child needs: the nursery, the health visitor, the youth club, the first employer.
When it's joined up, support around a child is:
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Coherent
Each stage of learning builds on the last, from the early years to adulthood.
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Connected
Health, care, education and community services work around the same child.
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Consistent
Trusted adults stay close through every transition, not just within one institution.
Four ways we help
Each strand of our work supports schools and their partners to build cradle-to-career support in their neighbourhoods.
We develop leaders
We nurture the leaders this work needs: people who can think and act across institutions, not only within them.
Leadership programmesWe cultivate the workforce
We develop the wider workforce around children, so people see themselves as one connected team, not separate services passing a child between them.
Workforce programmesWe strengthen places
We help schools build partnerships in their neighbourhoods, bringing services, families and communities together around children, cradle to career.
The Cradle-to-Career PartnershipWe innovate
We pursue breakthroughs on the hardest problems, testing new ways to join up support where children need it most.
BreakthroughsIt started in Feltham
We began in Feltham, in west London, more than a decade ago, with a school asking what else its children needed to thrive. Now schools and their partners are doing this work in neighbourhoods and places across the country, from single communities to whole regions.
Learn from the work
What we're learning, as we learn it, from the neighbourhoods and schools building cradle-to-career support.
Changing the odds
We've been filming in the places doing this work: the leaders, the families, the people who decided their neighbourhood could be organised better around its children.
Watch the filmsThe Reach Foundation Training Hub
Videos, short courses and practical tools, so any leader or team can start building cradle-to-career support in their own community.
Start learningFieldbook
Our termly publication: long reads, case studies and evidence from the places building joined-up support around children.
Read the latest issuesFind your way in
However you come to this work, there's a place to start.
Build support in your neighbourhood
For school, trust and local authority leaders ready to join up support around children in their place.
Join a leadership programme
For aspiring headteachers and trust leaders who want to lead across institutions, not only within them.
Fund or partner with us
For funders and organisations who want to help make cradle-to-career support the norm, not the exception.
Join our team
See current roles at the Foundation and across our programmes.