That is the view of Steve Davies, managing director of the South-East Wales consortium – one of four regional bodies charged with improving Wales’ schools.
Mr Davies believes that real progress has been made in the three years since the consortia were established and there is now a “real commitment” and “tremendous amount of will” among senior leaders to discuss more openly the challenges they face.
He made the comments while giving evidence to the Welsh Assembly’s Children, Young People and Education Committee. He said: “We are under a tremendous amount of pressure to deliver and a natural instinct is to be getting your head down and getting on with it. We should have been doing it (collaborating) beforehand ... but we were too busy delivering.”
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