Researching the operation of a collaborative framework within the Concorde Partnership has highlighted a number of significant factors, from the perspective of students and parents that will allow the partnership to exploit particular opportunities, and to better understand the inherent challenges and constraints within an on-going planning process for future collaborative activity and cross-site working. The views of students and parents to students travelling were the vehicle used to gain much of the baseline data, but it became apparent very early on that there were fundamental social and location issues underlying the attitudes to travel held by students, and parents, that could impact negatively upon collaborative working within the Concorde partnership schools
