Welcome to the third edition of Trust the digital professional journal for executive and governance leaders. This publication is one of the many outcomes of the close collaborative partnership between the Confederation of School Trusts (CST) and its wholly owned subsidiary National Teacher Accreditation (NTA). CST is the national organisation and sector body for school trusts and NTA (formerly NIPT) is the largest independent national Appropriate Body providing a high quality NQT accreditation service to schools of all types and phases including a growing number of MATs.
Read moreLast month, the Department for Education launched the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy, and the Early Career Framework (ECF). There was an astonishing...
Read moreWhat gives us character? What makes us resilient? These are two of the questions I look forward to grappling with as I chair the group announced by the...
Read moreI won’t pretend to be a governance expert, but I’ve served on the body of an independent school, as the chair of a single Academy trust, now as a chair...
Read moreIt’s that time of year again when schools are beginning to consider what their curriculum and staffing structures might look like in September. The process...
Read moreAs part of a huge swathe of policy on teacher recruitment, retention and development, the government has announced a new suite of National Professional...
Read moreWithout a curriculum, a school is just a building full of teachers and pupils.
Read moreNot a day goes by when there isn’t something in the press about executive pay. Whether it’s a piece urging ethical governance or a piece challenging...
Read moreStrong governance is vital to the success of any organisation and it is essential that those people employed to implement good governance practices in...
Read moreThroughout 2018, the threat to schools from fraudsters has compounded – not only are schools’ finance teams being targeted through malicious emails...
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