Templates and proformas for the work the DfE framework asks of a Responsible Body, and the partnership's articles on what the standards require and how to meet them.
Articles from The Estates Strategy Partnership on what the standards require and how an organisation meets them. Each opens on the partnership's site.
By Julie Lawson and Mel Stokes | Lead partner and governance lead, The Estates Strategy Partnership., 5 October 2026
Estate governance fails at the joins. A site manager fixes what is in front of them. An estates lead manages a programme. A headteacher raises what stops a child learning. A committee reads a report. A board receives it.
By Richard Bunting | Compliance infrastructure, The Estates Strategy Partnership. Founder, Compliance Pod and EstatesBase., 30 September 2026
The most understandable pushback from the people who run estates is not that the Education Estates Strategy is wrong. It is that they cannot afford it.
By Mel Stokes | Governance lead, The Estates Strategy Partnership. Founder, Legacy Governance Solutions., 29 September 2026
Inclusion strategy and estate strategy are usually written by different people, approved at different meetings and filed in different places.
By Mel Stokes | Governance lead, The Estates Strategy Partnership. Founder, Legacy Governance Solutions., 21 September 2026
In governance training on estate oversight, the people I most want to reassure are the ones who have just discovered that they are the named person responsible for the estate.
By Julie Lawson | Lead partner, The Estates Strategy Partnership. Chartered Manager., 21 September 2026
As a Chief Operating Officer I could have told you what the trust wanted for its children in one sentence. I could not have told you what that sentence asked of the buildings.
