Data and insights professional community

The CST Data and insights professional community is a unique development network for those leading on data management, insight and compliance within School Trusts, such as Chief Information Officers, Directors of Insight, Heads of Data and MIS, Data Managers, Protection Officers, and Data Controllers.

The professional community provides support and development opportunities at a time of unprecedented change, through a blend of expert input on key practice challenges, facilitated discussion, and networking.

The community provides a safe and supportive environment in which to develop your understanding of some of the key challenges related to operational practice across a group of schools, access expertise from across the sector, and build a professional network.

CST's professional communities focus on the concept of ‘practice challenges’ and engage through:

Termly virtual community meetings.
A one-day Professional Community conference.
Networking with colleagues across our sector.
Access to CST briefings and guidance.

As a member of the community, you will also gain exclusive access to our virtual platform. CST Hive is a peer learning platform that connects you with a community of information, resources and support, that you can access anytime and anywhere. On the platform you'll find an ever-growing collection of resources, containing information about key knowledge areas needed in our profession, as well as a space to connect, learn and interact with your peers from across the country.

Membership of the community is included for employees of member trusts as a benefit of CST membership. Join using the button below with your MyCST membership details.

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Session overview

Session One:
Speakers: Jason Bradbury, Deputy Director of Data and Insight at Ofsted
Thursday 19 September 2024, 10:00 - 11:00 (Virtual)

In this session Jason Bradbury, Deputy Director of Data and Insight at Ofsted, will explore the use of data from several angles, including:

The use of data in school inspections

Findings of the Big Listen, and possible policy questions relating to data

Leading the use of data in his own organisation

The session will give us the opportunity to hear about data both as a component of inspection policy but also as an aspect of Ofsted itself as an organisation. There will be an opportunity for colleagues to ask questions.