With falling pupil numbers, rising costs and pressure on reserves, trusts may need to look beyond another round of efficiencies. This interactive fishbowl will explore how leaders can connect curriculum, staffing and financial planning through ICFP, while considering when wider organisational change is required. Moving from school to trust to place, contributors from the audience will examine how shared services, restructuring and collaboration can create capacity, and what credible three-to-five-year planning looks like when things are uncertain.
When does financial pressure require organisational redesign rather than further efficiencies?
How can ICFP better connect curriculum, staffing, pupil numbers and affordability?
What should trusts manage collectively rather than at individual school level?
Where could trusts collaborate or share capacity rather than solving challenges alone?