Education:
Our Education service provides high-quality school improvement support tailored to the unique needs of each of our schools. Working closely with school leaders, we strengthen teaching, curriculum development, safeguarding and leadership capacity. Support includes core reviews, self-evaluation and strategic planning, subject deep dives and leadership coaching. Each year, Trust staff and school leaders jointly assess performance across a range of categories to inform strategic resource allocation.
In addition to individual school support, we offer Trust-wide networks and training in key areas such as SEND, reading, Catholic life, equality and preparation for Ofsted and CSI inspections. Our team includes serving Ofsted inspectors, bringing current expertise and insight to all we do. With a responsive and collaborative approach, we ensure every school receives the challenge and support necessary for pupils to thrive: academically, pastorally and spiritually.
Safeguarding:
Our Safeguarding service is dedicated to promoting the safety, wellbeing and protection of all pupils.
This service ensures that effective safeguarding policies and procedures are in place and embedded across all schools within the Trust. It supports the development of a consistent, Trust-wide approach to safeguarding that complies with statutory guidance, including Keeping Children Safe in Education, and reflects best practice in protecting children and young people.
The safeguarding service provides training, guidance and professional development for staff at all levels to maintain a vigilant and informed culture. It also offers expert advice and support on complex safeguarding matters, facilitates safeguarding audits and reviews and works closely with designated safeguarding leads, senior leaders and external agencies to ensure timely and appropriate responses to concerns. By prioritising the welfare of every student, the service fosters safe, supportive learning environments where all children can thrive.
Finance:
Our finance service is committed to ensuring all schools operate in a financially secure and sustainable way. To support this, we provide a comprehensive structure of support and financial oversight to our schools. Each school is assigned a dedicated finance manager who offers tailored guidance and hands-on support to meet the specific needs of their school. They closely with them to prepare management accounts, support budget planning and ensure adherence to the Academies Handbook. We work in a collaborate way to ensure schools achieve value for money and the best use of their resources. The service is responsive and promotes continuous improvement to ensure effective financial stewardship across all schools.
Operations and Estates:
Our Operations and Estates service ensures all schools are safe, legally compliant and well-maintained learning environments for both pupils and staff.
Our comprehensive service includes the maintenance of school buildings, statutory compliance and risk management, aligned with DfE guidelines and HSE regulations.
We oversee estates management, including maintenance, capital projects and sustainability initiatives, while ensuring robust compliance with fire safety, asbestos management, legionella control and all required statutory testing.
Our team delivers expert Health & Safety support, including risk assessments, accident reporting, policy development and staff training. We conduct regular audits, manage emergency preparedness and provide guidance on safeguarding site security.
With proactive monitoring and centralised compliance tracking, we minimise risks and ensure all schools meet their legal obligations.
By maintaining safe, sustainable and high-quality learning environments, we enable our schools to focus on delivering outstanding education.
Human Resources:
Our Human Resources service provides comprehensive support for the entire employee lifecycle. Our offer includes but is not limited to responsive telephone, email and face to face advice and support to all academies within the Trust on capability, disciplinary, grievance, redundancy, restructure, safeguarding, diversity, equality, sickness and other absence cases. The team also attend individual schools as required relating to formal disciplinary, capability, grievance, sickness absence cases, hearings or appeals to advise the head teacher, SLT and/or panel. We also take a lead role in employee relations; update, consult on and maintain a suite of HR policies, support the completion of payroll processes and submit annual returns to the Department for Education (DfE). In addition we develop staff wellbeing and engagement programmes, such as the staff survey, wellbeing initiatives, provide regular HR updates, co-ordinate the performance review cycle in conjunction with academy school leaders and facilitate the interview and selection process for the recruitment of new Head Teachers and Deputy Head Teachers.
Our team of fully qualified and experienced HR professionals work closely with school leaders to provide tailored support to meet the unique needs of their school with the aim of recruiting and developing a great workforce, who are highly skilled and passionate about getting the very best for all our pupils.
Governance:
Our Governance service equips schools with a robust package of tools, services and expert support to ensure strong, effective and compliant governance. Schools gain full access a variety of services and hubs such as the National Governance Association (NGA) and NGA Learning Link, Governor Hub for governance information management and HY Education’s DPO service to meet data protection requirements. We provide ongoing governor training, including bespoke sessions arranged by the Trust, to promote continuous development. Our team also supports all aspects of Local Governing Board (LGB) meetings and offers clear guidance on the recruitment of parent, staff and foundation governors.
In addition, we offer dedicated support during Ofsted inspections and manage the full coordination and clerking of sensitive, time-crucial meetings such as permanent exclusions and formal complaints panels. We conduct termly website compliance checks, ensure policy compliance and maintain a central hub for Trust-wide policy access. This comprehensive offer ensures that schools are equipped with the structure, knowledge and confidence to deliver high-quality governance that fulfils all legal and strategic responsibilities.