CEO, Eastern Learning Alliance; RISE Adviser, DfE

Policy Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy

Lucy Scott is the founding CEO of the Eastern Learning Alliance: a multi-academy trust with eleven settings across Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. ELA has primary, secondary, special and sixth-form provision and is a high-performing trust with expertise around gaining strong outcomes for disadvantaged students; the quick turn-around of previously failing schools; and inclusive approaches to education.

ELA is sector leading, having opened The Cavendish School (the world’s first International Baccalaureate state special school specifically designed for autistic students with Education, Health and Care Plans) and the Cambridge Maths School (one of nine specialist Maths school nationally, opened with Cambridge University). The trust has also been recognised by the Department for Education for its excellent outcomes for disadvantaged students; its work on attendance; and approaches to inclusion. ELA also hosts best practice visits for education programmes led by international governments, including India, Nepal and Kazakhstan.

Additionally, Lucy is seconded to the Department for Education as one of 65 RISE advisers, nationally, supporting school improvement across a range of settings.

Her particular areas of interest are: curriculum development and how strong curriculums can engage the disengaged; the impact of education on social mobility; the role of the arts and enrichment in education; how to create strong and supportive school cultures where students and staff thrive; and developing the next generation of educational leaders.