The North East Learning Trust (NELT) is delighted to welcome Churchill Academy as the 15th school to join the Trust. Formerly Churchill Community College, Churchill Academy, as the school will now be known, has a long history of educating children in the Wallsend area of North Tyneside. They join us with 800 pupils and the exciting prospect of a brand new school building after recently receiving government rebuild funding. Speaking of the news, Chief Executive Officer of NELT, Dame Lesley...

Since summer 2025 our CEO, Dame Lesley Powell DBE, has served on the panel of the Inquiry Into White Working Class Educational Outcomes. Published today, the final report finds that the education system is not serving the interests of white working class children, and calls for "once-in-a-generation" reforms if structural shortcomings are to be fixed. The Inquiry set out to answer one of the most pressing questions in contemporary public policy: why white working class educational performance...

The North East Learning Trust is proud to announce that our founder and chief executive officer, Lesley Powell CBE, has been made Dame...