MyKGA - Colleague Survey 2024

What to expect from the Colleague Survey in September

Before the summer break, the Head Teacher Board discussed the Colleague Survey findings and agreed that each academy will

Share academy specific findings - so you can expect your leadership team to be explaining the key findings from your academy with you at the start of term (if they haven't already!), this will include celebrating what is going well and highlighting areas that your feedback suggests need improvement
Discuss next steps with colleagues - your ongoing input is essential to ensure that plans are formed to share good practice and take steps to make improvements, we suggest that each academy establishes a reference group made up of representatives from all different job types in your academy to talk about what actions will have a positive impact
Include actions in your academy improvement plan - by integrated agreed actions into your academy improvement plan, they are clear to everyone and you can hold each other to account for implementing them
Check progress - your leadership teams should check with you regularly to see if progress is being made on the improvements you agreed, this can be done by running 'pulse surveys' asking just a few targeted questions about the key actions you have agreed.
Keep talking - the number one tool in improving your workplace experience is for colleagues to keep talking to leadership teams, so we suggest regular catch ups with the reference group.

Colleague Survey 2024

Thank you!

Two thirds of colleagues completed our survey. This is a fantastic response rate especially given that we have grown significantly as a Trust in the past few months. By taking the time to respond, you have given feedback that will contribute to the ongoing development of our workplace.

Your responses have now been collated by Edurio, the independent company who hosted the survey for us and these will be shared with each academy leadership team. Each academy will now:

Share an overview of the findings
Celebrate the things you have told us are going well
Plan to take action where feedback suggests we need to make improvements

Each academy will discuss areas for improvement with colleagues and ask for ideas on positive steps to be taken. The agreed actions will inform your academy improvement plans for 2024/25.

Trust wide findings

When we look at the feedback across the whole trust we can see that colleagues felt that we were strongest in the following areas;

Professional Support * Line Management Support * Safety at work

We also found that we had made positive progress in improving:

Cross Trust Communication * Development Opportunities

We will continue to work on the areas above and will also do more to address the areas that you felt that we could do more to improve which were:

Management of Workload * Career Opportunities * Understanding Pay & Benefits