Preparing for Change
The last ten years has seen massive reform. We now educate more than half of children and young people in the Trust sector. In 2010, there were just 203...
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Leora Cruddas CBE is Chief Executive of the Confederation of School Trusts – the national organisation and sector body for academy and multi-academy trusts in England. She has advised successive governments and sits on several Department for Education Advisory Bodies. She was recently the vice chair of the Head Teacher Standards Review Group.
Prior to founding CST, she was Director of Policy and Public Relations for the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) where she set up the Ethical Leadership Commission. Leora has six years of experience as a Director of Education in two London Local Authorities. She has extensive experience at senior executive level of working with schools and trusts to improve the effectiveness and quality of education. She is a Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of Education, Centre for Education Leadership.
The last ten years has seen massive reform. We now educate more than half of children and young people in the Trust sector. In 2010, there were just 203...
Read moreWe are proud to publish this most recent edition of Trust – our journal for executive and governance leaders.
Read moreTwenty months of Covid-19 is a long time for people to operate in ‘crisis response.’
Read moreI am delighted to bring you this Autumn edition of Trust Journal. This edition is about the future – how we arise stronger from the global pandemic and...
Read moreAs we near the end of an extraordinary academic year, I thought it might be worth reflecting on the strategic challenges that next year will bring. I think...
Read moreThe Secretary of State for Education set out the Government’s ambition for every school to be part of a family of schools in a strong multi-academy Trust...
Read moreThis is a significant moment in the history of education in England. The policy reforms that are about to be implemented will shift the strategic picture....
Read moreMany in the education commentariat are talking and writing about the future of schooling in England. These arguments, situated in the context of the global...
Read moreIn the introduction to this edition of Trust, I want to make the case for ‘robust’ policy. Robustness can be defined as "a system’s ability to maintain...
Read moreWe have seen a plethora of articles and blogs written over the past few months, regarding all aspects of education. Many have called for fundamental and...
Read moreWe have seen some magnificent examples of civic leadership exercised by local authorities, schools and trusts during COVID-19 – leaders acting with professional...
Read moreRecently I wrote an article in TES about the path from crisis to recovery in the COVID-19 response. In this article, I talked about the need to build resilience...
Read moreIn the last edition of Trust, I wrote about school trusts as an insurgent mission. This is a bold mission, requiring spikiness and limitless horizons....
Read moreIn their excellent book, The Founder’s Mentality, Zook and Allen talk about the insurgent mission as one of the key features of the founders of successful...
Read moreEarlier this year, I was delighted to give evidence to the UPP Foundation Civic University Commission. It was a privilege to have the opportunity to think...
Read moreWe launched the Confederation of School Trusts on 11 October 2018. By this edition of Trust, we are thirty-eight weeks old and I thought it would be a...
Read moreThe term ‘autonomy’ is a highly contested and misunderstood concept. The whole question of the practice of autonomy needs more careful thought and...
Read moreAt the legal and ethical heart of what we do as academy trusts lies something bold and aspirational – our core charitable purpose is to advance education...
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 moreWelcome to the second edition of Trust, our Journal for Executive and Governance Leaders.
Read moreOver the past decade, academies have become a powerful force in education reform. With half of our children and young people in England educated in the...
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