
Samira Sadeghi
1 Workshop series three
The business of education: Using KPIs to achieve excellent outcomes for pupils
How can all parts of a school trust contribute meaningfully to excellent educational outcomes? And how can trust leaders and boards align around strategic priorities and be assured that all endeavours of the trust are focusing on delivering the best education for pupils? Ben March, Chief Finance and Operations Officer at STEP Academy Trust will be talking to Samira Sadeghi, Director of Trust Governance at CST about how STEP uses KPIs to facilitate educational outcomes. This session will cover how operations within STEP enable excellent educational outcomes for pupils, and how trustees engage with and support this practice. Ben will share how STEP developed a framework that balances consistency of expectation whilst appreciating the context of each school, how KPIs are using as part of this process, the importance of establishing the right interplay between KPIs to avoid unintended outcomes, and the impact that this is having across the trust.
1 CST Safeguarding Conference
Principles of an effective safeguarding audit: A trust-led approach
CST's Samira Sadeghi will introduce a project to develop practical new support for trust-led safeguarding audits in partnership with our Safeguarding professional community. She'll set out the vision for a framework and principles that can be used in trusts of all sizes to underpin developmental and supportive audits, and how community members can share ideas and experience to help shape them.