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
Conduct a SWOT analysis
Doing a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis will help you to think self-evaluatively about:
- Where you're currently performing well
- Where you need to improve
- What opportunities adding a school presents
- What threats adding a school may pose
Download our template to make sure you get this right:
Use these questions to help scaffold