What does ‘high-quality’ look like?
The DfE has recently published Commissioning High-Quality Trusts, an overview of how Regions Group take decisions on the creation, consolidation and future growth of trusts.
While no single metric will be used to reach a decision, the guidance outlines the quantitative and qualitative evidence that Regions Group will take into consideration, across five key areas:
- High-Quality and Inclusive Education
- School Improvement
- Workforce
- Finance and Operations
- Governance and Leadership
The guidance provides a handy benchmark for ‘what good looks like’ in the academies sector – whatever your trust’s strategic ambitions.
So, in which areas are you on track to meet the criteria, and where do you need to improve?
To get an idea of how closely your trust aligns to the DfE guidance, take our quiz.
Please note, there is room for interpretation in the guidance, so your score should be used as a rough indication only.
High-Quality and Inclusive Education
- Strongly Disagree
- Disagree
- Neither Agree nor Disagree
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
High-Quality and Inclusive Education
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
Whether it’s communicating with hard-to-reach parents, sharing policies across schools, or using real-time data to inform strategic curriculum decisions and early intervention, IRIS Education can help your trust improve.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is doing ok but needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
From communicating with hard-to-reach parents, sharing policies across schools, or using real-time data to inform strategic curriculum decisions and early intervention, IRIS Education can help you get to the next level.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is on track to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
IRIS Education can help your trust stay on track. Whether it’s communicating with hard-to-reach parents, sharing policies across schools, or using real-time data to inform strategic curriculum decisions and early intervention.
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School Improvement
- Strongly Disagree
- Disagree
- Neither Agree nor Disagree
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
School Improvement
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
IRIS Education can help. By using our software to combine and analyse data, you can benchmark performance across key metrics. This allows you to build a school improvement strategy based on what you know works.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is doing ok but needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
IRIS Education can help. By using our software to combine and analyse data, you can benchmark performance across key metrics. This allows you to build a sustained school improvement strategy based on what you know works.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is on track to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
By using our software to combine and analyse data, you can benchmark performance across key metrics. This allows you to spot areas of weakness quickly, ensuring that your school improvement strategy remains as effective as it can be.
* mandatory question
Workforce
- Strongly Disagree
- Disagree
- Neither Agree nor Disagree
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Workforce
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
Our cloud-based software places a priority on automating manual tasks, helping streamline processes, reduce workload, and improve wellbeing. With our trust-wide HR system, you can support consistent performance management, CPD and collaborative working across multiple sites.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is doing ok but needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
Our cloud-based software places a priority on automating manual tasks, helping streamline processes, reduce workload, and improve wellbeing. With our trust-wide HR system, you can support consistent performance management, CPD and collaborative working across multiple sites.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is on track to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
By placing a priority on automating manual tasks, our software can help streamline processes, reduce workload, and improve wellbeing even further. With our trust-wide HR system, you can support consistent performance management, CPD and collaborative working across multiple sites.
* mandatory question
Finance and Operations
- Strongly Disagree
- Disagree
- Neither Agree nor Disagree
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Finance and Operations
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is doing ok but needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is on track to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
* mandatory question
Governance and Leadership
- Strongly Disagree
- Disagree
- Neither Agree nor Disagree
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Governance and Leadership
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
Our software consolidates financial, workforce and student data from across the trust in secure live dashboards to provide leaders and trustees with the information they need to make strategic decisions.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is doing ok but needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
We can help you improve. Our software consolidates financial, workforce and student data from across the trust in secure live dashboards to provide leaders and trustees with the information they need to make strategic decisions.
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Feedback: This is an area where your trust is on track to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
Our software consolidates financial, workforce and student data from across the trust in secure live dashboards to provide leaders and trustees with the information they need to make strategic decisions.
* mandatory question
Summary
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- Disagree
- Neither Agree nor Disagree
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Your summary
Thank you for completing the quiz.
To see how your trust might measure up against the DfE’s guidance, please complete the form.
Your trust score
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Overall, your trust needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
IRIS Education is the ideal partner to help you. Our market-leading software provides trusts with the data and assurance they need to measure and improve across each of the five areas identified by the DfE.
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Overall, your trust is doing ok but needs to improve to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
IRIS Education is the ideal partner to help you get to the next level. Our market-leading software provides trusts with the data and assurance they need to measure and improve across each of the five areas identified by the DfE.
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Your trust is on track to meet the DfE’s vision for the academies sector.
IRIS Education is the ideal partner to help you get to the next level. Our market-leading software provides trusts with the data and assurance they need to measure and improve across each of the five areas identified by the DfE.
