Published: June 2026
Welcome to the latest edition of Academy Trusts Today, the leading magazine for leaders, managers and educators in the English state academy sector.
Highlights this quarter include:
- James Goffin highlights some key government policy changes coming up and explores the practical implications for running your trust and schools.
- Sally Brooks and colleagues report on how the Bourne Education Trust is responding to one of the most significant rethinks of curriculum and assessment in decades.
- Louise Brenlund explores the practical implications of changes to recruitment practices following the recent employment rights legislation.
- We follow the journey from establishing a fundraising programme at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School to creating a trust-wide development strategy at Saint John Southworth Catholic Academy Trust.
- As the government pushes a major initiative on behaviour, Matt Morden and Moray Dickson describe how they approach this major issue in the schools they lead in the Big Education trust.