This session is open to all members of our CEO, COO and Education Executives networks.

As the cost pressures and funding crisis becomes even more acute for trusts and schools, it is important that – where we can – we strive to share ideas and hints and tips across our networks for mitigating the issues, and to generate examples of where investments made now may be able to achieve efficiencies and greater impact for schools in the long-term.

We will begin the session by hearing about the work of one of our CEO members and their trust. Wayne Norrie, CEO and Darren Yarnell, Operations Director at Greenwood Academies Trust (GAT) will share their work over a number of years in maximising the trust model to achieve strategic investments and greater efficiency of trust resources centrally and across schools – whilst always staying focused on the needs of children, young people and staff.  Wayne and Darren will share their approach as well as some tangible examples of where they have been able to reduce costs and invest resources wisely to ensure greater returns for children and staff over time. They will also discuss how they are approaching the current cost pressures crisis and how their approaches are supporting them through this so far.