Jacqueline Bircham

CEO, Asset Education

Jacqueline's role involves high level strategic leadership and management across all aspects of the ASSET Education's activities, ensuring the trust provides high quality education for all its pupils through the effective and efficient use of resources and people. As a system leader, Jacqueline represents the trust with a wide range of stakeholders and partners, enabling the trust to fulfil its civic responsibilities.

Hall 10b

1 Series two

Trust wellbeing: Going ‘all in’ with a Complete Human Strategy

<span data-teams="true">This session opens with an overview of this year’s findings from Education Mutual’s School Business Leaders Wellbeing Index report</span>. Trust speakers will then discuss the ‘Complete Human Strategy’, a six-pillar model grounded in research and positive psychology, designed to support the wellbeing of children, staff, and families, with human flourishing at its core. You’ll gain insight into the model’s philosophy, how it is embedded in strategy and school development plans, and its impact. The session includes a thought-provoking activity and a practical toolkit for attendees to get started with implementation in their own settings.

1 Workshop series one

The lesson in the middle of the day: Aligning the business of school catering with educational value

How do school trusts connect their catering and educational provision, and what's the business case and operating framework for making change? In this session we'll consider how school trusts can centralise the management of catering services whilst empowering local teams to perform. You'll hear the latest trends on catering insourcing and outsourcing from across the sector from The Litmus Partnership, and gain insight into Asset Education trust's decision to insource catering across its 15 primary schools to forge a deep connection between food, the curriculum and pupil well-being. A connection that gives chefs and heads agency with a central trust framework, which can save money whilst delivering a better service, and which aims to have a lasting impact on pupils for learning and for life.