A summary of school funding information for the 2025/26 academic year, including links to key Department of Education publications.
First published December 2024, updated June 2025.

Member briefing with Browne Jacobson looking at legal considerations around staff restructuring.

Our regular member engagement call focused on funding issues for our meeting on 14 May 2025. This is a summary of the meeting chat.

This member engagement call focused on the current and future funding landscape, with opportunities for members to feed back their current positions and future expectations.

The Academy Trust Handbook introduces new requirements on internal scrutiny from September 2025. This briefing note, produced in conjunction with CST platinum partner RSM outlines the key considerations for trusts.

This guidance is intended to support trust boards with an evidence-based process to set executive pay, including for chief executives and other senior roles.

In the next instalment of our Funding Futures series, we look at beginning to build a reliable evidence base through introducing a Schools' Costs Index, and set out why key formulae - per pupil, disadvantage and SEND - should be protected and uprated in real terms. This paper formed part of CST's representation to the 2024 Autumn Budget.

A summary of school funding information for the 2024/25 academic year, including links to key Department of Education publications. Information updated September 2024.

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.

Briefing note on key announcements for schools trusts in the 2024 Spring Budget.