Supporting schools and multi-academy trusts with culture-centred education support services. From expert HR and leadership development to academisation, trust growth, and trust mergers, we help you grow confidently and build thriving, future-ready communities.
We partner with school and trust leaders to provide strategic leadership, HR, executive recruitment, and wellbeing and culture, services tailored to the complexities of leading high-performing schools and trusts.
Our role is to bring clarity and confidence to complex leadership and people challenges. We support trust senior leadership teams through periods of growth and change, including trust expansion, mergers, academy conversions and organisational redesign. By working closely with leaders at every stage, we ensure our support is practical, financially sustainable and aligned to your unique educational context and ambitions.
Delivering specialist HR support for schools and trusts, helping them tackle workforce challenges with confidence. Covering recruitment, retention, TUPE, employee relations, staffing structure reviews, investigations, and more.
Supporting leaders through every stage of organisational growth, from trust mergers and academisation due diligence to organisational design and leadership development. We help leaders navigate growth and change with confidence, backed by experience across schools and trusts at every stage.
Our Still Human service helps schools and trusts build a culture that supports staff wellbeing, engagement and retention, creating workplaces built to last.
Our education leadership recruitment approach gives you full support and guidance in line with KCSIE, from scoping and research through to search, selection and final appointment. We specialise in recruitment for senior education leadership positions, including headteacher recruitment, CEOs, COOs and CFOs across schools and multi-academy trusts.
Explore how we help schools and trusts with strategic leadership, HR, and culture – delivered by Edwin People.
Explore how Edwin can help with your people, leadership, and culture.
Strategic HR, leadership and organisational support for schools and trusts, delivered by people who understand education from the inside.
Helping schools and trusts build cultures where staff feel valued, supported and able to do their best work for the young people in their care.
Fast, compliant DBS checks built exclusively for schools and trusts so you can hire with confidence.
Digital products built for education, supporting candidate clearance, staff wellbeing, and accessing important resources.
We support over 6,000 schools and 800 multi-academy trusts, with practical HR and wellbeing support shaped around your context.
Managing a school or multi-academy trust means balancing competing priorities alongside complex HR challenges. Our team delivers trust support services built around consistency, a dedicated point of contact, backed by real operational support tailored to your school or trust.
Relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We build trust through openness, honesty, and genuine care for the people we work with. We treat everyone with respect, value different perspectives, and create positive, supportive partnerships that make it easy to work together.
We help schools and trusts stay ahead of the challenges they face, bringing fresh thinking and practical experience to every conversation.
The best outcomes come from strong partnerships. We work alongside leaders as a trusted extension of their team, taking time to understand their context and priorities. We listen carefully, respond quickly, and adapt our support as needs evolve, so our advice stays relevant, practical, and impactful.
Education leaders face increasingly complex strategic and financial challenges. We cut through the complexity to give clear, practical advice that's easy to understand and put into practice. Combining real experience with a straightforward approach, we help leaders make informed decisions with confidence.
Our free HR forums and events are open to anyone within education who has responsibility for people.
HR roundtable series exploring how Multi-Academy Trusts can build a high-performing People function - one that truly supports recruitment, retention and school improvement. Hosted this in partnership with Edurio.
HR roundtable series exploring how Multi-Academy Trusts can build a high-performing People function - one that truly supports recruitment, retention and school improvement. Hosted this in partnership with Edurio.
HR roundtable series exploring how Multi-Academy Trusts can build a high-performing People function - one that truly supports recruitment, retention and school improvement. Hosted this in partnership with Edurio.
Edwin works alongside leading sector bodies, government agencies, and specialist organisations who share our values and our commitment to the future of education.
Julie Liddell
Managing Director, Still Human part of Edwin People
Lyndsay Greathead
Director of People
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