As the first intake of 46 young children settle into their brand new school in Newcastle Great Park this week, the success of the programme that delivered it will be celebrated far more widely than in just the north east. Brunton First School is the first school in the country to be delivered by a Local Education Partnership outside of the phased programmes of work developed under the government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative. It was always the intention when the government embarked on its multi-billion BSF programme, that the public private local education partnerships created to deliver BSF schools would eventually extend their reach to deliver wider public services reflecting local needs. Newcastle is already ahead of the game. It has now opened more BSF schools than any other part of the country through a
