Edwin People provide a range of strategic leadership and HR services to the education sector. We build long-term, trusted relationships with senior leaders in schools and trusts, providing support across a range of issues, adding capacity and acting as a sounding board to your internal teams.
Our team have all worked in the education sector for many years, and as a result combine our knowledge of trust leadership, HR, finance, governance and operations so that we add value as your external advisers.
With a focus on recruitment, retention and reducing workload, we partner with education sector leaders to ensure that we provide advice and support relative to your context, that adds value and reduces the workload on senior leaders. Typical work includes school trust growth and merger projects, strategic HR projects such as executive pay, pay harmonisation and external reviews, and HR/Leadership retainer services where we provide proactive advice and support on a range of issues, policy development, and strategic initiatives as well as acting as a sounding board to your internal team, adding capacity and delivering value for money.
Our areas of specialism include:
People strategy within an education context – ability to support both the smallest SAT through to a regional or national school trust.
MAT growth including mergers, academy conversion, free schools, provision expansion, provision closure etc.
Staffing restructures including links to financial planning and Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning (ICFP)
External reviews e.g. governance, staff wellbeing, central services, due diligence etc
Executive pay, recruitment and retention
Support in tackling underperformance
Complex investigations including grievances and disciplinary
Pay harmonisation projects
Staff wellbeing
It’s important to us that we seek to understand your ambitions and priorities so that we can best tailor our service to your needs. We focus our support on the outcomes you are looking to achieve and focus on delivering quality services and long lasting relationships.
At Edwin People we are committed to providing trusts with useful information when they need it. We have a range of free tools available which can be accessed via our website www.edwinpeople.com these include;
Monthly board briefing packs – simply download and edit the documents
Termly newsletters – sign-up on our website to receive the latest issue
Topical updates via our LinkedIn channel – follow us to receive the latest updates www.linkedin.com/company/edwinpeople
The Edwin Group publish an education termly publication called The Edword which is full of thought leadership pieces from contributors across the sector - https://lp.edwin.group/the-edword
We continually look at ways in which we can give back to the sector for example through sponsorship, hosting CEO round tables, connecting leaders, and listening to the sector. We are proud to be a Sunday Times Best Place to Work Employer in both 2023 and 2024, and we are recognised as achieving ESG "excellence” status.
