In the UK there is a movement stressing the need to create more formalised networks of schools. At first bringing schools into networks was primarily a means of helping deliver central and local government initiatives more effectively. Now the agenda is shifting as the power of networks which have come together around local interests is being harnessed as a mechanism for system-wide change. The movement from networking, to networks, to what they have termed, in the Networked Learning Communities Programme 'networked learning'. Experiences with linking of networks are discussed.