Leaders of partnerships and projects to improve outcomes for children and young people.
The SDSA fulfils a number of roles to support improvement and development activity within Leicester, across the East Midlands region and beyond. We were created by the DfES in 2000 but are now owned by Leicester City Council as an arms-length not-for-profit company.
We are a very flexible organisation working with a small core team and growing number of associate partners to deliver against a rapidly-moving and wide-ranging agenda. Several national and regional partners commission us to support their work in key areas.
The following principles and values are crucial to all of the SDSA's work:
- Collaboration - because new possibilities emerge when ideas come together
- Creativity - because experience improves when personal expression matters
- Equalities - because potential is wasted when unnecessary barriers remain
- Participation - because life improves when people are shaping their own future
- Conviction - because life has integrity when both hearts and minds are engaged
Our current work areas are described within this site under the button headings provided at the side of this page.
This website is designed to provide introductory information about our work and, perhaps more importantly, to provide a place for people to share ideas and resources.