Growth and merger can create significant opportunities for school trusts, but they also bring important decisions about how services should be organised and delivered. Following the merger of two trusts, Excalibur Academies Trust faced a challenge familiar to many growing organisations: how to create a single operating model from two successful, but very different, approaches. One legacy trust operated through a highly decentralised model, while the other had embraced shared

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