Our education system needs a clear and compelling narrative around which to build over the coming years and decades. A collective purpose, a shared vision and a uniting concept towards which we focus our time, resources, leadership, energy, expertise and wisdom.
Flourishing together: A collection vision for the education system sets out a joint vision from CST, the Church of England, and the Catholic Education Service.

This discussion paper sets out why and how trust governance can evolve to focus more on forward strategy than compliance, engaging a broader range of voices and better serving our communities.

The mission to break down the barriers to opportunity for all children is important. It is an enduring common ground shared by government and the profession.

School trusts exists to provide education - but as charities they also have a wider civic role. Today many schools exist as the last civic institution in their communities - this report from CST explores how trusts are working with pupils, parents, public services, charities, and businesses to help pupils do better on both sides of the school gates.

CST believes all parties must place the needs of children, families and schools at the heart of their vision for this country.

The aim of this work is to establish a common set of concepts, language and framework that will allow trusts to explore, capture and compare their models of school improvement so that we can build more knowledge and a stronger evidence base about what is more likely to work when improving schools at scale.

This guide provides additional, practical, context to CST's conceptual model for trust-led school improvement.

Research by the Confederation of School Trusts has found that the current complex system of school funding falls short of what is needed to support pupils. Funding is too unpredictable, is not calculated against the actual costs facing schools, and has failed to keep up with moves to a trust-led system. Following extensive consultation with academy trust leaders - who now run more than half of the country’s schools – CST is calling for significant reforms.

This paper outlines CST's position on reforming regulation and accountability of schools in England, with the aim of building an intelligent and
compassionate system of accountability.

This paper proposes an evolution of the existing accountability, regulatory and support architecture in the school system in order to provide a more sophisticated, effective and proportionate approach that will, together, better support sustained school improvement.