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Membership of CATS has opened up a tremendous amount of networking opportunities which supported our development of a 3-19 federation.

MARTIN CAIN, Headteacher
Frank F Harrison Engineering College, part of the Beechdale Community Partnership

Our Membership

CATS currently represents over 150 schools in 50+ groupings. These members include all-through schools and academies, all-through federations, all-through collaborations, all-through Trusts, learning communities and other projects which cross traditional boundaries. Membership is also open to individual educational consultants and Local Authorities, a number of whom have joined the organisation.

CATS Conference January 2011
CATS Conference, Bristol - January 2011

Membership of CATS offers:

  • Access to the network of all-through educational structures.
  • Access to a network of specialist consultants.
  • Access to specialist all-through support and advice.
  • Support in the development of appropriate models of leadership in all- through settings, developing leadership capacity and distributed leadership.
  • Access to all-through research and news.
  • Priority notification of national conferences and events relating to all- through education.
  • Member discount for CATS run conferences and CATS Consultancy packages.
  • Newsletter The Scratching Post sent free to members.