Briefing note for CST members on the 2025 Spending Review.
Briefing note for CST members on the 2025 Spending Review.
Member engagement call focused on primary finance.
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.