What do you feel have been the significant factors in, in us coming to this point and the mechanisms now for us to be the, the people that can design change and move forward through tapping into things that yourself has discussed about how we work in communities through belonging, through connection and on, you know, uh, beyond this where we are today?

So I visited last week two absolutely wonderful trusts in the southwest of England, actually in Cornwall.

The one was the West Country Schools Trust, and the other was the Truro and Penwith Academy Trust, TPAT.

And Jen Blunden is their chief exec of TPAT, and she invited me to speak to her head teachers.

And on that day, she was launching a new logo and kind of new strategy for, for, for TPAT, organized around three pillars, and I thought they were absolutely brilliant.

So excellence, equity, community.

And it felt to me like we talked for a long time about excellence and equity, and those are fundamentally important, but we can't necessarily achieve excellence and equity without community.

Do you want to elaborate a little bit more on that for us? So where does it come from in the White Paper, and why do you think that in particular is the big focus for right now?

What are CST's most urgent recommendations around this issue? And what do you think trust can realistically do to create a sustainable and attractive career pathways when funding is limited and the graduate market prioritises flexible and elements of homeworking, especially post the pandemic?

So you're right to ask this question, Ellie, and it's a challenging question for us.

And we know that the current conditions of our school leaders, our teachers and support staff are not sustainable.

So data from the charity, the Education Support, who publish every year Teacher Wellbeing Index, tell us that 78% of all staff working in our schools report being stressed.

This rises to 89% of all leaders and 95% of headteachers.

36% of teachers report experiencing burnout.

So this is not sustainable.

How has that personal experience of education influenced your leadership and values? And how are those values reflected in how CST supports trust?