CST has a strong vision for its work and for the school trust sector, based around our three pillars of advocate, connect, and support.
Advocate for school trusts with decision makers and policy influencers
Connect trust leaders with each other and leading education thinkers
Support the sector with expert guidance, training, advice, and consultancy
Advocate: The voice of school trusts
- An organisation that stands up for school trusts and the education sector
- A powerful confederation which advocates for the public benefit of education
- An effective voice in influencing policy
- Promoting and sharing the benefits of structural partnership, based on emerging evidence
Connect: Joining up leadership across the system
- Connecting executive and governance leaders to ministers, regulators and influential policy makers
- Creating networks of executive and governance leaders, including peer brokerage
- Connecting executive and governance leaders to what they need to know
- Leading policy formation with and on behalf of executive and governance leaders
Support: Supporting school trusts through high quality professional services
- Professional development designed uniquely for school trust executive and governance leaders, including a chairs development programme and chief executive mentoring
- Bespoke in-house training and consultancy designed to meet trusts' needs
- Sector-led advice and guidance for executive leaders and trust boards
- An Appropriate Body for teacher training designed specifically to meet the needs of school trusts
Our approach and impact
To deliver our mission for school trusts we need to have strong foundations, developing a resilient organisation and long-term financial sustainability. We do this by striving to have:
- A resilient organisation with appropriate systems, policies and procedures.
- Membership increasing year on year and a strong record of retaining almost all of our members.
- Diversified income and a strong and resilient business model.
Since our launch in October 2018, CST has been actively shaping the education policy agenda and speaking on your behalf. You can discover more about our work in our annual impact reports.
