A series of papers looking at leading impact through trusts
Leading impact through trusts is a project in partnership between the Confederation of School Trusts (CST) and ImpactEd Group. As CST highlight, "where a trust runs a group of schools, it has the power to create a collaborative framework" focused on a single purpose – to make its schools the best they can be.
This project therefore aims to showcase good practice in school trusts and highlight how they are demonstrating real impact within the some of the most challenging areas in education.
Rather than making a case for one type of trust approach over another, this work seeks to identify and amplify practice that demonstrates how trusts as a whole can effectively tackle the following key themes:
- Driving up educational outcomes for disadvantaged White children
- High quality primary to secondary school transitions
- Effective approaches to reading to unlock educational outcomes
Each of these three themes is explored in a concise paper, drawing on data-driven, real-life examples from a range of trusts across the country, accompanied by actionable insights and question prompts, to support trusts in their own work towards improving pupil outcomes.
