Resources for trustees

The Confederation of School Trusts has released its 2022 salary benchmarking report in conjunction with partners XpertHR and Browne Jacobson. This is the second year the report has been published, offering a reliably current and comprehensive annual salary report of executive roles in school trusts.

School trusts are complex and agile organisations. The proposition of governance should therefore be a live conversation and boards should monitor and improve their performance continually. This updated toolkit outlines our 20-element assurance framework including guiding questions to consider and descriptors of what strong and weak assurance would look like in a trust at board level.
The new September 2023 version can be either completed electronically or printed out.

A summary report of headline findings and a supplementary report on benefits packages for executive leaders in school trusts.

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This guidance has been withdrawn due to operational, funding, and policy changes since publication.

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?