We are excited to share our new Trust Estates Strategy, developed to ensure we are ensuring our school estates are vibrant, efficient, and sustainable environments that are fit for purpose and support the future needs of education.

Our strategy focuses on creating a high-quality, effective, and efficient estate. Here’s how we plan to achieve this:

Key Objectives of the Estates Strategy:
1. Ensure Compliance Across the Trust
To maintain a safe and legally compliant estate through managing and monitoring statutory compliance activity and documentation. Placing a key emphasis on safeguarding and health and safety across our estates.
2. Effective Asset and Condition Management
To statistically invest available funds into high priority works, maintaining a safe, warm, and weathertight estate. Maintain a proactive attitude towards gathering and interpreting condition data to create efficient plans of condition priority-led work.
3. Evolve and Develop to Enable Trust Growth
To ensure our estate strategy is resilient and responds to future growth of the Trust and the capital needs of joining schools.
4. An Estate Fit for Purpose
The ensure that the current estate adapts and changes to reflect the evolving teaching and learning needs. This aim encompasses any changes to the estate that are determined by suitability and not reasons such as its condition, compliance or sustainability needs.
5. Efficient Control and Management Processes
To maintain and develop an operating structure and environment that ensures the best use of data, time, effort and funding in all aspects of what we do.
6. Steps to Net Zero
To make significant strides towards achieving Net Carbon Zero by reducing carbon emissions, lowering the energy consumption of the estate, and conscientiously using our buildings in a sustainable way.

What Does This Mean?
• Better-maintained facilities that support a healthier, safer environment for both teaching and learning.
• Clear processes for reporting issues and contributing to our sustainability efforts.
• Exciting opportunities as we grow and evolve, all while minimising our environmental impact.

As we begin implementing our plan, we will keep you updated on our progress through our Twitter and Facebook channels. For more information, feel free to reach out to us!