Category Archives: Updates

In response to the specific requests from Trust Leaders and our member Trusts, we’re expanding our research “School Business Leader Wellbeing Index”, to also include a Trust-focused edition! This additional version of the report will focus on the current state of School Business Leaders’ mental health and wellbeing within their roles in Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs).

In October, we engaged with the SBL community to gather their thoughts and experiences regarding their mental health and wellbeing through our annual survey. As we develop this new report, we invite Trust leaders to share their insights through a quick survey. This tailored feedback will help us enhance the people strategy within MATs and strengthen support for SBLs across in the UK. We need your input to further understand a MATs current People Strategy to enhance support for School Business Leaders.

How to complete the survey:

The survey should be completed by yourself, a Trust leader (or a person whose job role encompasses such responsibilities).

It should take around 5 minutes to complete, depending on the answers given.

The survey will be live from Monday 4^th November – Friday 29th November 2024.

Complete the survey here: https://online1.snapsurveys.com/EMSBLWI2025TrustLeaderSurvey

On behalf of the Education Mutual team, we would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts and experiences on the current state of mental health and wellbeing as school business leaders. Your participation in this year’s survey, which closed on Friday 18th October, has been vital. Thanks to your input, we received the highest number of responses in the past three years, marking a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to understanding and supporting the wellbeing of school business leaders.

As we move into the next phase of our research, we will be conducting interviews with those who kindly volunteered to chat with us further. These in-depth conversations will be integral to deepening our understanding of your feedback, which we look forward to publishing on Wednesday 26th February 2025.

Education Mutual is excited to unveil a brand-new partnership with the Multi-Academy Trust Association (MATA) for the new academic term 2024/2025, marking a significant step forward in our mission to further support multi-academy trusts.

This collaboration brings exciting things for trust leaders throughout the new academic year, with the aim to foster a reassuring environment for a growing community of over 600+ trust leaders.

MATA’s refreshed focus for each academic year is built upon its five key pillars which Education Mutual share a commitment to three of these; People, Growth, and Finance & Fundraising –  click here.

We invite you to learn more about this exciting partnership. For more information, click here.

Education Mutual is thrilled to announce our new partnership with Value Match. We now proudly feature on their Workforce Absence Prevention and Protection Best Value Framework, reinforcing our commitment to guaranteeing budget certainty and providing an ethical alterative to staff absence insurance for the education sector.

This partnership ensures that if you choose to tender for your staff absence protection, Value Match has already done the hard work of vetting a suitable provider for you. Our inclusion to their single supplier Workforce Absence Prevention and Protection Best Value Framework guarantees improved outcomes, savings, and significant social value initiatives that benefit all stakeholders, including teachers, guardians, and pupils. By taking advantage of this framework, Multi-Academy Trusts can maximize their budgets to support enhanced educational outcomes.

For more information about our new partnership and what it means for the future of education procurement, click here.