Centre for Young Lives

In June 2024, Jonny became a visiting fellow at the Centre for Young Lives, leading the development of their education policy. This remit of work involves developing a vision for inclusive schools and trusts, building a network of school and trust leaders to champion this vision, and developing further partnerships with wider educational organisations.

Our Community Multi Academy Trust

Trustee

SHINE UK

Trustee

DfE Regional Advisory Board, Yorkshire & Humber

Elected member

Pearson Education UK

Member of the Qualifications Committee

Scott has been involved in 8 days of professional support and challenge for the central teams and four successful secondary schools in a MAT based in the Northwest, as they evolve their School Improvement at Scale model and look to establish their own peer review process.  As with everything at TEAL, Scott has focussed through the lens of establishing a culture of collaboration that can be scaled up, and is workforce friendly, reducing the duplication of effort.

This has involved a two-day review of each school, working alongside their own leaders, to evaluate capacity and talent in the workforce to deliver sustained school improvement, including:

1. To help leaders develop an effective, sustainable (routine and regular) model of internal peer review.
2. To help leaders develop an effective, sustainable school improvement model.
3. To ensure that all recommendations are framed in a planned growth context (and thus, can flex as the trust evolves).
4. To help leaders consider the implications of all the above for the trust’s people development strategy.

ESFA

Vice Chair of Working Group 2. This working group considers the financial online forms development and collections (Accounts Return, Budget Forecast Returns, Land and Buildings Collection Tool), plus associated digital infrastructure and financial reporting as required. This will particularly focus on any new or prospective requirements and changes to process.

Member of the ESFA Steering Group.  The Academies Finance and Assurance Steering Group (Steering Group) has been created to enable the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and academy trusts to work collaboratively to develop a number of finance and assurance products and to provide a forum for ESFA to consult on its wider strategic aims. The Steering Group will drive improvements to meet the needs of the academy sector in ensuring high standards of accountability and transparency in the use of public funds.

Other

Member of the TransforMATive Tribe (strategy group for CFOs)

Member of the York Group CFO network (strategy group for CFOs)

Alison is an external moderator for ITE and regularly supports other SCITTs to develop their provision. She has worked with NASBTT contributing to the development of the ITE sector nationally and continues to work with CEOs and headteachers to identify and overcome barriers to recruitment. Current work is taking place on creative routes into education which will support head teachers to recruit to other difficult recruit positions in school such as cover supervisor and TA.

We aim to identify and remove barriers for colleagues to enter the teaching profession and have done this by creating a part time training route which allows colleagues to work part time whilst they are training to teach, thus making it easier for career changes to enter the profession.

Sarah Barley works with the DfE, Universities, Schools and 6^th form colleagues to promote recruitment into the profession. We have influenced and shaped national recruitment strategy by sharing our pre-training opportunities package with the DfE.

The YWTT team are deeply committed to teacher education in its broadest form, we undertake a significant amount of teacher CPD, not only for our mentors but for the wider staff base in across our partnership.

We do this by facilitating;

• Bespoke Subject enhancement  which includes supporting non specialists to teach hard to recruit subjects like physics and maths
• CPD on specific aspects of teaching – supporting Headteachers across the region with their specific CPD requirements