Key priorities and challenges facing trusts in 2023/24
This third annual report uncovers the key priorities and challenges facing trusts across the country and provides practical, data-driven guidance for addressing them.
Inside, you’ll find valuable insights and expert commentary on:
- Ethical Leadership: See how CEOs tackle new pressures while focusing on pupil outcomes.
- Financial Sustainability: Insights into managing budgets, reserves, and growth.
- Workforce Wellbeing: Strategies for recruitment, retention, and flexible working.
- School Improvement: How trusts achieve excellence across multiple schools.
- Strategic Governance: Explore evolving governance models and stronger accountability.
The report offers actionable strategies and benchmarks to help your trust thrive in an evolving educational landscape.
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You can also download the National CST School Trust Report infographic to unlock key insights at a glance.
Access in-depth insights tailored to central trust teams
Read the deep-dive reports to see how trusts are addressing key priorities in:
- Governance
- Operations
- Finance
- Workforce wellbeing
- Civic duty and public benefit
- School improvement at scale
- Quality of education.
Priorities and challenges for trusts 2022/23
In June 2023, 395 trust accounting officers across England – the senior leader directly responsible to Parliament for their trust – shared their voices with the sector body, the Confederation of School Trusts.
The second annual report uncovers trusts’ top priorities for the academic year 2022/23.
Inside, you will find key facts, insights and expert commentary on:
- Current challenges: financial sustainability and growth
- Future priorities: improving the quality of education and workforce development
- Strong and resilient trust insights: governance and accountability and system leadership and civic responsibility
One of the key findings was that multi-academy trusts are worried about financial stability. Read the TES article here or access the full findings in the report.
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