The paper, part of CST's 'Bridge to the Future' series, makes the powerful argument that as we emerge from the pandemic that we should consider with fresh perspective the future for our Church of England schools.

This guidance includes a code of principles for determining executive pay, which CST recommends trust boards adopt.

This guidance is intended to support trust boards with an evidence-based process to set executive pay and should be read in conjunction with the CST Code of Principles for Setting Executive Pay and the Academy Trust Handbook.

This guidance sets out the principal roles of the accounting officer as expected by Parliament and set out in the Academy Trust Handbook. It also covers the key messages for trusts in the statutory guidance Managing Public Money.

This guidance, in partnership with Stone King LLP, sets out the strategic and operational considerations around trust growth for the trustees and executive leaders, with particular focus on how trusts can grow through academy conversion and academy transfers.

In this short paper, part of our 'Bridge to the Future' series, we make the case for intelligent systems of accountability built on firm principles. We explore what accountability means and why it matters in the Trust sector. We also explore what needs to be done to create more ‘intelligent’ forms of accountability.

With an incredible foreword written by best-selling author Matthew Syed, six academy trustees from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds share their personal and professional experiences and highlight why a diverse and inclusive board is so important. This timely collection is part of a broader programme on diversity and aims to encourage everybody in the sector to reflect.
Published in association with the New Schools Network.

This document should be read alongside the Department for Education’s guidance for maintained schools applying to join a school. It provides an overview of good practice on public engagement and consultation at each step of the process.

Risk management is the process by which risks are identified, their severity assessed and cost-effective actions are taken to address, or mitigate, them to bring them down to acceptable levels. This guidance provides a risk template for trusts as a starting point for a bespoke approach.

This guidance offers a process or framework for auditing organisational culture. It is designed to meet the requirement in the Competency Framework for Governance in relation to the responsibility of the trust board to determine, embed and monitor the culture, values and ethos of an organisation. It will help trust boards to answer the question: how do you know?