Today has seen the launch of NGA’s new report on the governance of multi-academy trusts, and a fine piece of work it is too. It provides an excellent summary of the current state of trust governance, and the key challenges we all need to work together to address. We’ve also this week seen the publication of a new Academies Financial Handbook, with key new provisions around governance. As an organisation working with executive leaders and their trust boards, I thought it would be helpful to contribute my reflections on some of the key findings and our own experiences and insights on these issues. Here’s my first of three blogs.

Thriving in Times of Financial Pressure: Mindset Strategies to Support Trust Leaders
Tony Brooks is a leading thinker and speaker in the field of survival psychology - a field of psychology specifically focusing on how mindset shifts and techniques can underpin how we respond to and deal with crises and/or high stress situations. In this article, Tony...