Our Central Services Team
Our Central Services team provides comprehensive support to our partner schools, enabling school leaders, teachers and support staff to focus on our children and young people.
The team is organised into seven areas:
Corporate Governance
- Governance of the Trust, including clerking and coordination of governance training
- Advice and support regarding admissions
- Policy co-ordination and development
- Legal services
- Conduct and capability hearings and appeals support
- Support handling complaints
- Statutory functions.
Finance
- Financial management
- Payroll services
- Coordination of internal and external audit
- Financial procedures and governance
- Accounting, accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Budget setting, monitoring and guidance
- Procurement management
- Administration of pension schemes
- Finance policy development and review.
Estates Management
- Maintenance and development of school facilities
- Tendering, procurement and management of capital projects
- Carbon reduction and energy efficiency audits
- Compliance with health and safety regulations
- Management of complex capital projects
- Data protection support (UK GDPR), including training
- Oversight of all insurance, leases and contracts
- Facilities management and planning
- Health and safety policy development and review.
Information Technology
- IT support and transformation
- Wired and wireless network infrastructure
- Software licencing and oversight
- Data management and insights
- Cybersecurity and data protection
- Systems integration and support
- Server backup solutions
- Technology training and development
- IT policy development and review.
Human Resources
- Talent management
- Recruitment and staffing
- Compensation and benefits
- Training and development, including performance management
- Safety and compliance
- Case management
- Diversity and inclusion
- HR policy development and review.
Marketing & Communications
- Marketing strategy and implementation
- Branding
- Website management and compliance
- Social media management
- Public relations and media engagement
- Internal communications
- Event planning and co-ordination
- Communication policy development and review.
School Improvement
- Curriculum leadership and management
- Behaviour, safeguarding and inclusion, including SEND
- People development
- School improvement plan development support
- Facilitation of peer networks
- Ofsted Inspection support
- Education policy development and review.
Each area plays a vital role in supporting the operational and strategic needs of our schools, allowing educators to focus on what they do best - providing high-quality education.