Welcome to this issue of Trust journal. As ever, it is the product of a range of voices in the school system, from School Trusts to partners offering commercial services and, of course, input from CST too. We hope it speaks to a range of trust leadership roles and that there’s ‘something for everyone’ here. This matters to us because Trust leadership is, of course, a shared endeavour.
Read moreCognitive dissonance is a term first coined by Leon Festinger in the 1950s and is used to describe the mental discomfort an individual feels when they...
Read moreWith schools spanning from the Isle of Wight to Middlesbrough, Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) has one of the largest national footprints when it comes...
Read moreWhen the White Paper was released, many commentators were quick to suppose a lack of real vision and ambition from Whitehall. Cries of ‘there’s nothing...
Read moreIn his paper Communities of Improvement: School Trusts as Fields of Practice, Steve Rollett notes that:
Read moreThe 2022 version of Keeping Children Safe in Education landed on 20 May 2022. Along with some tweaks around the edges and an expansion of Part 5, there...
Read moreIt has long been a requirement for Academy Trusts to formally manage their risks through a risk management policy and system and maintenance of a risk...
Read moreFollowing the publication of the Schools White Paper, Steve Rollett, CST’s Deputy Chief Executive, spoke to John Dickens, Schools Week Editor, about...
Read moreDigital transformation and the digital maturity journey that it represents are ideas that have percolated into many public sector organisations. Steps...
Read moreAs our digital landscape continues to evolve, commercial charge cards provide a range of financial efficiencies and risk control opportunities in the education...
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