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.
#TrustLeaders Discussion Session Going beyond the core curriculum: aspiration and enrichment
This online trust leaders’ discussion event, led by Forum Strategy’s CEO Alice Gregson, drew trust leaders together to consider how trusts and their schools are innovating and adapting within and beyond the core curriculum to prepare children and young people to be...

