Church vision for academy trusts within the education system

The CES has recently produced two vision documents explaining the role and shape of academy trusts and the education system.  

Developed in partnership with the Church of England's National Society for Education and the  Confederation of School Trusts (CST), Flourishing Together sets out ten ‘seeds’ necessary for the ecology of human growth within education.  

It sets out how ‘the best unifying concept around which to build the education system for the coming decades is that of flourishing – flourishing children and flourishing adults in flourishing schools’.  

Flourishing Together was launched at the CST conference in November 2024.  

A specifically Catholic vision document, Called To Flourish In Faith And Hope, explores this understanding more fully from a Catholic educational perspective.

It seeks to understand what it is to flourish within five comparable but distinct realms: mission; communion; formation; gifts; and fruitfulness, offering ‘a genuine integration of both human learning and religious faith, around the person of Christ’.

Called To Flourish In Faith And Hope was launched at the Catholic MAT CEO / CSEL conference, also held in November 2024.  

View or download Flourishing Together and Called To Flourish In Faith And Hope