CST's platinum partners are leading commercial organisations that provide high quality services to school trusts.
Our platinum partners are chosen for their expertise and their alignment with CST's values and vision for the school system, which puts children at the heart of our mission.
CST’s platinum partners also share our commitment to building capacity for the sector by creating specialist knowledge to inform good governance, leadership, and management practice in school trusts.
Knowledge-and capacity-building projects with our partners take many forms, from research, guidance, white papers, and the development of resources and toolkits, through to supporting our executive networks, governance programmes and events. Core to all is a continuous focus on supporting our members.
Platinum partners also make a financial contribution to CST, helping us to keep membership fees low and services accessible.
We are grateful for our platinum partners' support of our work and for school trusts.
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At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better, with brilliant, intuitive tools designed to make a difference.
Effective estate management is central to delivering the best education outcomes. Barker is one of the country’s leading education property consultants. Our award-winning team provides a complete range of services from condition surveys to major projects including the redevelopment of entire sites. We maintain a detailed knowledge of funding streams, government policy, education guidelines and initiatives related to the Multi-academy Trust sector.
BlueSky Education is the award-winning continuous professional growth platform designed to support your school with appraisal and school improvement, putting professional learning at the heart of the process. BlueSky adapts to support the culture of your school by providing an agile framework for individual staff and powerful intelligence for leaders.
Education matters… and so does the expert legal support you get. So choose an award winning education law firm independently recognised as providing exceptional client service. All of your legal and HR needs can be met by the friendly and responsive education team at Browne Jacobson.
CJK Associates are a specialist education consultancy that brings together professionals from the worlds of strategy, education and business.
Education Mutual provides a new innovative way to manage staff absence protection for Schools and Trusts.
Edurio is a leading provider of stakeholder feedback solutions to schools and school trusts. Their mission is to give education leaders clarity on the things that matter most. So far, their school surveys have gathered the feedback of over 750,000 pupils, parents and school staff. Edurio surveys cover topics such as staff retention, parental engagement and teaching and learning. The team designs surveys in partnership with academic experts and practitioners to address school management priorities and inspection requirements.
FFT Education is a not-for-profit organisation committed to helping pupils achieve their full potential and enabling schools to improve. Established in 2001, FFT’s services and resources are widely used in the UK and around the world.
GCSEPod’s unique flexibility allows continuity of use no matter what educational setting you are in. Delivering a fully supportive blended or remote learning strategy designed around high-quality content for 28 GCSE/ IGCSE subjects. Content delivered through our unique, anytime, anywhere ‘pods’. You can teach, assess, monitor & engage with GCSEPod. Our award-winning, unique independent assessment, Check & Challenge, allows students to independently monitor their progress and gives teachers the ability to pinpoint knowledge gaps and intervene appropriately. The exciting addition of exam style assignments now gives schools further evidence to support teacher assessed grades. Award winning content and now also an assessment system that promotes learning not just testing.
With increasing upward pressure on costs, never has it been more important for every available measure to be taken to ensure value from energy contracts. Ginger Energy is a specialist energy consultancy who help our clients understand and control their energy costs. Our procurement experts’ partner with clients to understand their exact requirements and formulate a purchasing strategy. We then diligently and compliantly navigate the complex energy market to ensure our client’s benefit from the best fit, best value contracts available.
IRIS Education are the leaders in providing accounting, purchasing and reporting software in the education sector. Our system has been chosen by over 2,500 education establishments, with 43% of all Open Academies and 57% of all Multi Academy Trusts choosing to use our Financial Management System.
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Lloyds Bank provides specialist banking for the education sector. We provide services to more academies than any other bank*. We work closely with national associations and the Department for Education to ensure our relationship managers’ sector knowledge is up to date.
Lyfta is an innovative, evidenced-based education platform which uses the power of global human stories to strengthen connection, understanding, and belonging in classrooms and beyond.
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PLMR delivers communications with impact. We are proud to support the Confederation of School Trusts and are a trusted partner for education organisations across the sector including school trusts, further education organisations, universities, exam boards, early years groups, edtech companies, education charities and more.
At Pearson, we believe everyone can make progress in their lives through learning and we recognise that every student has their own unique learning style.
Perrett Laver is the leading international executive search firm for ‘purpose-driven’ sectors, and every client we serve is pursuing a better world. We work with clients to assist them in improving the calibre, diversity and success rate of their senior appointments. We support the recruitment of leaders for schools, academies, trusts and educational organisations who seek the best possible outcomes for people of all backgrounds. We believe in an educational system which values quality choice diversity and autonomy. We advance inclusive and courageous educational leadership focused on continuous innovation and improvement.
We believe that technology plays a vital role in helping teachers bring the classroom to life, but how do we ensure the right foundations are in place? Too often technology in schools is implemented for its own sake, with no clear understanding of the specific objectives it is expected to deliver. The right technology foundations need to be in place to give you confidence but they are only useful if you have a clear strategy for how you want to use technology in achieving teaching and learning objectives in your school. A robust and well thought out technology strategy is essential.
With over 28 years’ experience of the education sector you can rely on RSM to deliver the specialist experience and knowledge your academy needs to support its development and meet regulatory requirements.
For over 30 years Renaissance® has been a leading provider of cloud-based assessment technology that is now used by more than 18m students in over 52,000 schools worldwide – including over 1.5m students and almost 6,000 primary and secondary schools across the UK and Ireland.
We specialise in publishing high-quality reading programmes and home learning resources. We offer impartial advice to the school and trust sector on how to teach children to read.
We are deeply committed to education and understand the opportunities and challenges met by educational institutions. We deliver high quality, full-service legal advice informed by national know-how but delivered locally through our network of offices at a price you can afford.
Talent Architects was established by Mandy Coalter, an experienced and award-winning HR Director in both the education sector and beyond. Our services range from bespoke consultancy support, events, and coaching and mentoring.
Teaching Personnel, part of Supporting Education Group, provides teachers, tutors and support staff to primary, secondary, and special schools, academies and alternative provisions throughout England and Wales. We believe that all schools can benefit from the work done by our high-quality, carefully selected educators. We feel privileged to help thousands of schools educate, enrich, and encourage their pupils to success every day.
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