[3] Headteachers should be leaders of learning, and issues of finance, estate management, governance, HR and IT should be handled by a shared back- office team of professionals.

Children must start the primary school ready to learn; this means enabling them with quality pre-school education, giving each child the experiences provided by the most advantaged parents.

The CEO came back from maternity leave in 2013 and employed a qualified accountant, Fiona Hardie, as Chief Financial Officer.

They established a new professional accounting system whereby all the schools used one central finance office- and the only delegated power was petty cash, and that had a top limit of £50.

[2] In a YouTube video made for Department for Education (DfE) in 2017, Carr and Hardie explained the approach they used in the next four years.