The Trust Leaders’ Network offers a practitioner-led space where trust leaders can connect, share challenges and gain insight into effective approaches to trust development. Bringing together trusts at different stages of maturity, it enables leaders to learn from peers facing similar challenges or those further along in their journey.

Participants visit up to four trusts each year, with visits expertly facilitated by recently retired CEOs of successful trusts to support honest, purposeful collaboration and mutual improvement.

The programme also includes webinars featuring leading thinkers and business experts, and encourages wider trust teams to take part so learning is embedded in practice. CEOs and DCEOs can further strengthen their leadership through a dedicated annual, two-day residential.

The Trust Leaders' Network’s spiral curriculum explores recurring and evolving themes from different perspectives, while allowing space to tackle urgent and novel challenges. Themes include:

• Growth
• Developing and sustaining a one-trust culture
• Building and scaling an effective model for central operations and school improvement
• Balancing alignment, autonomy and innovation
• Effective governance
• Growing your people
• Maximising the trust dividend