Understand where you are now
Consider whether you could grow your trust, either locally or beyond. Think about whether merging with another trust would benefit your schools.
Review your operating model
Review your current operating model to make sure you have the resources and capacity needed to add a new school.
This process will help you:
- Understand what you're spending on processes, for both staff and goods and services, and evaluate how effectively these are working
- Design a central team structure that has the capacity to support a new school
Build capacity in advance of need
Make sure you have the people, systems and finance in place to support the schools you currently have, but also those that may be joining - it's difficult to increase capacity after schools have joined.
A finance director An education director A HR director HR is hugely