Our Objectives…

  1. All students across the Trust to achieve at least expected academic progress

  2. All schools across the Trust to be rated good or outstanding by Ofsted

  3. All teaching across the Trust to be rated good or outstanding

In order to achieve these objectives the Trust will:

  • enable more targeted support to be provided to weaker schools through the transfer of skills and the sharing of capacity with stronger schools, as well as through working with a strategic school improvement partner;

  • encourage the pooling of resources and a focus on the shared procurement of goods and services will lead to efficiencies and cost savings;

  • allow the schools to communicate through one voice, strengthening their negotiating position whether that be with suppliers or with the Department for Education;

  • promote consistency and the development of good practice through the appropriate setting of policy and through common training;

  • provide greater opportunities for working together, enabling more emphasis to be placed on career development and progression;

  • help schools to focus on the transition from one stage of education to another and, by sharing information, support the development of a more personalised learning plan through all stages of education;

  • reduce corporate costs as there will be a need to prepare only one set of accounts, with auditing and financial management and administration being supported centrally

  • help to avoid unnecessary bureaucracy by ensuring that the company adopts the principle of “subsidiarity”, namely that decisions are to be taken at the level nearest to those affected by those decisions;

  • help to reduce the risk of failure by ensuring there is accountability and robustness through clear risk management and providing for contingencies;

  • facilitate strategic thinking and long term planning;

  • support the development of a shared vision and encourage the schools to work within a set of values and principles that will promote a sense of belonging and mutuality;

  • provide additional leadership and management capacity which will enable reflection and challenge as well as support at school level.