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A multi-academy trust is only as strong as its central team. The people running finance, HR, estates, governance, and school improvement across a trust need development just as much as teachers do, but they’re often overlooked. This programme develops your central team so your trust runs well and supports its schools.
Below, we explain what our MAT central team development involves, and how it helps your trust operate effectively.
What Is Multi-Academy Trust Central Team Development?
It’s tailored development for the central teams that make a multi-academy trust work. We support your central staff across their functions, from operations and compliance to how the centre supports school improvement, and help the team work coherently in service of your schools.
We shape it around your trust’s structure, size, and priorities, whether you’re a new trust building your centre or an established one strengthening it.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for multi-academy trusts of any size, and for groups of schools building shared central functions. It suits central team staff, trust executives, operations and finance leads, and school improvement teams. We develop the people who run the trust behind the scenes.
Many trusts ask for it when building or restructuring their central team, growing quickly, or wanting the centre to add more value to their schools.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- The role of an effective central team
- Supporting schools without over-controlling
- Trust operations, finance, and compliance
- Central support for school improvement
- Governance and the central team
- Working coherently across functions
- Managing growth and onboarding new schools
- Adding value to every school in the trust
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
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Strengthen your central team
We develop the people who run your trust, so the centre works well and supports its schools.
2
Support schools effectively
Your central team learns to add value to schools without over-controlling them.
3
Run the trust well
We build the operational, financial, and compliance capability a trust depends on.
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Support school improvement
We help your central team drive improvement across schools, coherently and consistently.
5
Manage growth
We help your centre onboard new schools and scale without losing coherence.
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Work across functions
Your team learns to work together across operations, HR, estates, and improvement.
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Get value from your centre
A strong central team makes the whole trust more than the sum of its schools.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We work with your executive team to shape the development around your trust’s structure and priorities.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Built for trusts
We develop the central functions that make a multi-academy trust work.
Tailored to your trust
We shape the programme around your structure, size, and priorities.
Whole-team, group, or individual
Develop your whole central team, a function, or coach an executive. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We understand how trusts work and what central teams need to run them well. Our development helps your trust operate effectively, with every decision staying focused on children.
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Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree a programme, dates, and delivery that suit your trust, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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