Trust: The CST Podcast

School trust leaders can explore a range of education sector issues in an education podcast from the Confederation of School Trusts.

Trust: the CST podcast, produced by PLMR brings listeners regular expert insights, ideas and innovations from a variety of voices across the school trust sector and beyond.

Each episode will explore the big picture impacting on the school trust landscape, and therefore the wider education sector itself, in 20 minutes packages to help fit into trust leaders’ busy schedules.

Episodes will span an array of themes, including: the latest policy and practice; matters of trust governance and executive leadership; and topics from finances to school improvement, accountability to safeguarding, workforce to mental health and more.

Trust: the CST podcast, produced by PLMR is available to subscribe to on Spotify and other major podcast platforms, or listen using the embedded player below.

The podcast is supported by communications agency and CST Platinum Partner PLMR.

Join CST’s Chief Executive Leora Cruddas and Deputy Chief Executive Steve Rollett, and communications agency PLMR’s Head of Education Tiffany Beck sharing an overview of what to expect as the series unfolds. This will be followed by special event episodes in October featuring the CST Annual Conference and a political party conference season round-up.

Hear from a range of speakers and delegates on the ground at the CST Annual Conference 2023, reflecting on what 'belonging' means in education.

PLMR's Head of Education Tiffany Beck and Account Director Luke Walpole look back at the recent party conference season and what comes next.

Steve Rollett, Deputy Chief Executive of Confederation of School Trusts (CST), and Tiffany Beck OBE, Head of Education at PLMR, discuss CST’s new paper on school improvement architecture.

 In this episode, CST Chief Executive Leora Cruddas CBE and PLMR Head of Education Tiffany Beck OBE discuss why school trusts are our best bet for a school system that keeps getting better.

PLMR’s Head of Education Tiffany Beck OBE speaks to CST’s Chief Executive Leora Cruddas CBE and Anthem Schools Trust’s Chief Executive Mohsen Ojja about reimagining trust governance. Since this recording, and following a concerted effort by CST, the DfE has now separated out governance guidance for academy trusts from maintained schools. CST welcomes the new guidance with its greater clarity about trust governance and has been part of its development, but CST’s guidance, Governing a School Trust , is still in CST’s view the most comprehensive guidance for trusts, rooted in a comprehensive analysis of the law and regulation governing school trusts.

Join CST's Leora Cruddas CBE, Reach Foundation's CEO Ed Vainker OBE and PLMR's Head of Education Tiffany Beck OBE as they discuss the role of school trusts as anchor institutions in their communities. Learn more about what that means, what impact it can have and how to approach developing or stepping up your strategy to achieve this -- plus, find out what a 'disruptive edge' is.