Our breakfast briefings are open to individual members of our CEO, COO and Education Executive networks – you will need to be an individual member of one of the networks to join the session. Should you wish to send a nominated person in your place, please check with us by emailing admin@forumstrategy.org We will politely reach out to anyone in the event we don’t have registered in one of our networks.

Please note this particular event will be most relevant for those in Primary settings and serving relevant constituencies around the Midlands and North of England.

Public First has published a new report in early December 2022 ‘Towards a new generation of Community Schools – listening to parents of the Red Wall’ in association with UNISON and NAHT. This dedicated breakfast briefing will explore how, as trust leaders, you can use this research to gain deeper insight into community expectations. We will consider ‘what next?’ for trusts, allowing time for discussion around what the findings of this report mean for you in your local contexts.

Public First’s research included ten focus groups of parents of social grade C1 to D and a mixture of Labour and Conservative voters. The research also included a nationally representative poll of 1,000 parents with an additional sample of parents from red wall constituencies. Some of the key research areas explored parents’ views of their local schools (particularly teaching and learning), communication from schools, staff conditions and pay, the provision and role of technology, wider issues of academisation as well as much more.

We will be joined by Ed Dorrell, Director at Public First, to talk us through the report and key findings with a particular reflection on implications for trust leaders across areas within the so-called ‘red wall’. This will provide vital intelligence not only in discovering what parents really want and expect from education but in considering how these views might be used to shape future education policy and direction. At Forum Strategy, we have long been advocates for the view of trusts as a core part of their communities and this session provides a firm focus on this, allowing us to consider how we use intelligence to keep meeting the changing expectations of communities.

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