AI Training · Multi-Academy Trusts

AI training for multi-academy trusts — consistent rollout across every school, centrally governed

AI training and governance built for MAT central teams — roll AI out fast and close the AI skills gap consistently across every school, under one trust-wide policy aligned to KCSIE and UK GDPR, with central oversight so no school falls behind.

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The AI skills gap

AI capability varies school to school. The skills gap is uneven — and it's growing.

Across a trust, some schools race ahead with AI while others have had no training at all — so practice, safety and benefit are uneven where they should be equitable. The national skills gap shows up inside your trust as a gap between your own schools. Closing it to one standard keeps every school — and every pupil — on the right side of it.

  • 44%of teachers already use generative AI — but unevenly, school to schoolDfE Technology in Schools Survey, 2024–25
  • 89%of UK employers haven't had staff trained to use AI in the past yearDfE, AI Skills for Life and Work, 2026
  • 61%of school leaders say technology has already cut staff workloadDfE Technology in Schools Survey, 2024–25

Three rungs, delivered consistently

  1. StartFocus SessionA consistent baseline so every school starts from the same point.
  2. BuildDeep DiveHands-on capability on real work, to the same standard in every setting.
  3. EmbedFull DayA trust-wide launch, governed centrally so no school falls behind.

We close that gap across your whole trust. One standard, one policy and the same practical training in every school — KCSIE- and UK GDPR-aware and aligned with the DfE's guidance on generative AI in education. See the three formats ↓

Workshop formats

Three workshop formats, delivered consistently across your schools

Run the same format across every school for a consistent baseline — short, focused sessions staff can fit around a busy week, scheduled to your trust calendar. The Full Day Workshop is there when a trust-wide launch or whole-staff INSET day calls for an immersive day.

Online delivery is 10% less.

  • AI Focus Session

    30 minutes

    £425

    £361.25 with education discount

    Includes up to 300 attendees

    +50p/extra attendee

    • A sharp, no-filler push to get your staff using AI day to day
    • Tailored to your workflows
    • Led by a ReadyToday AI specialist
    • Prompt-writing skills your team can apply to any task
    • Digital handouts and a certificate per attendee, counting toward CPD
    • Ideal as a recurring weekly or fortnightly CPD series
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    AI Deep Dive

    3.5 hours

    £885

    £752.25 with education discount

    Includes up to 300 attendees

    +£1/extra attendee

    Everything in Focus, plus:

    • Hands-on practice on your team's real, repetitive tasks
    • How to automate repetitive work and improve your workflows
    • Multiple workflows covered in one session
    • Written action plan with next steps
    • 7 days of post-workshop email Q&A
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  • AI Full Day Workshop

    6 hours

    £1,345

    £1,143.25 with education discount

    Includes up to 300 attendees

    +£1.50/extra attendee

    Everything in Deep Dive, plus:

    • An immersive day — foundations in the morning, hands-on implementation in the afternoon
    • Role-by-role breakouts so every team practises on its own tasks
    • Extended live Q&A and troubleshooting clinic
    • Embedding plan agreed before we wrap up, so the day sticks
    • Ideal for INSET days, away-days and whole-team AI launches
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What changes day to day

What your trust's staff will be able to do

Concrete, role-specific outcomes on real work across your schools — built on staff's own lessons, admin and trust processes.

Teachers — teaching & learning

  • Plan and differentiate lessons for mixed-ability classes in minutes
  • Generate retrieval-practice questions, quizzes and model answers
  • Adapt reading material and scaffold for SEND and EAL
  • Use AI to support teaching without undermining assessment — pupils' assessed work stays their own

Support & office staff — workload & admin

  • Draft parent, governor and staff correspondence in the school's tone
  • Summarise long policies and documents into plain-English briefings
  • Clean up and make sense of spreadsheets and returns

Senior & central leaders — strategy & policy

  • Draft and pressure-test policy, SEF and improvement-plan wording
  • Summarise data and reports for governors and trustees
  • Set safe, consistent expectations for staff and pupil AI use

Central team — consistency

  • Draft trust-wide policy and templates every school adopts
  • Standardise comms across schools
  • Summarise returns and data across sites
Upskilling across your trust

Develop and retain your staff — to one standard, every school

AI training is professional development your staff value, delivered consistently so capability grows evenly across the trust.

  1. Develop staff trust-wide

    Every school's teachers and support staff gain the same practical AI skills, with a certificate each that counts toward their CPD.

  2. Keep great staff

    Backing staff with the skills they want helps every school keep good people — and levels up the settings that have had no training at all.

  3. Consistent and current

    Short, regular sessions keep practice current as tools and DfE expectations change, under one trust-wide standard.

Beyond staff

Sessions for parents and the wider community

AI is already in your pupils' lives at home. We can run evening or community sessions — 'Helping your child use AI well' — that help parents and carers support safe, sensible AI use, aligned with KCSIE and the DfE's guidance. Scoped per school or rolled out across the trust.

How an engagement runs

Discovery call, quote in the portal, then we deliver

  1. Free Discovery Call

    Your consultant spends 30 minutes understanding your team's workflows so the session lands on what they actually do.

  2. Quote in the portal

    Sign up, pick your tier and dates, and we'll send a confirmation in the portal at the published price plus any add-ons. Accept and pay — payment is processed by Stripe; your card details are never stored by us.

  3. We deliver

    We tailor the content to your team's real work, then deliver on your chosen date — on-site or online. Deep Dive and above also includes seven days of email Q&A and a written action plan afterwards.

Typical timeline: same-day response on enquiries, quote within 24 hours of the call, delivery from 1 week out.

Honest scope

What's in the training package — and what's a separate engagement

This page is our training menu. AI builds, integrations, custom tools, websites and hosting are things we do — scoped as separate engagements. Happy to fold them in at the discovery call.

Included

  • Tailored content built from your real workflows
  • Led by a ReadyToday AI specialist
  • Prompt-writing skills and certificates
  • Discovery call before every session
  • 7-day post-workshop Q&A (Deep Dive and above)
  • Action plan with concrete next steps (Deep Dive and above)

Every workshop is built from scratch around your team — the tools we cover, the workflows we use as examples, and the pacing all shape to your needs from the discovery call onward.

Available as separate engagements

  • Building AI tools and integrations
  • Custom internal tooling and dashboards
  • Student-facing sessions for under-18s (with safeguarding scoping)
  • Websites, hosting and ongoing IT support

Not something we claim

  • Promising specific productivity uplifts or guaranteed KPI movements

Talk to us about a separate engagement

How we compare

How this compares to other AI training

Most AI training is a one-off slide-deck day or a video library to watch. Here's how a ReadyToday rollout is different — built on your schools' real work, governed centrally, and made to stick.

Slide-deck dayVideo libraryRecommendedReadyToday
Built on your own lessons, marking and adminYour real lessons, marking and admin
Hands-on practice, not watching videosDevice-on, hands-on every session
Changes daily habits — doesn't fade by FridayMade to stick — regular rhythm or an immersive launch day
One flat fee for your whole teamUp to 300 included, one fee
Aligned to DfE guidance, KCSIE & UK GDPRDesigned into every engagement
FAQ

Quick answers

What is the AI skills gap, and how does it show up across a trust?

The AI skills gap is the distance between staff using AI and using it well — and across a trust it shows up as inconsistency: some schools race ahead while others have had no training, so safety and benefit are uneven where they should be equitable. The Education Policy Institute's 2026 review of MAT approaches to AI found engagement varies sharply between schools, with tools rarely evaluated independently. We close it consistently: one trust-wide standard and policy, and the same practical, hands-on training in every school, aligned with the DfE's guidance on generative AI in education, KCSIE and UK GDPR.

Can we procure AI training centrally and roll it out across all our schools?

Yes — that's the model we're built for. The trust procures once at the centre and we scope delivery across your schools as a single engagement rather than separate per-school bookings. That keeps contracting simple, makes the cost easy to budget, and means every school gets the same standard.

Can you give us one AI policy for the whole trust instead of one per school?

Yes. We help your central team author a single trust-wide AI use and governance pack — acceptable use, pupil-data handling under UK GDPR, KCSIE-aligned safeguarding, and central-DPO/school-DSL roles — that every school adopts. We keep that one pack current as guidance and tools change, so you update at the centre rather than chasing each school.

Do you train the central team, or every school — and how do you keep it consistent?

Both, in a deliberate order. We help the central team set one policy and one training baseline, then deliver the same workshop format across member schools so a teacher moving between trust schools meets the same expectations everywhere. Consistency comes from shared non-negotiables, not from forcing identical practice on a primary and a sixth form.

How do you stop a digital divide opening up between our schools?

It's the core reason to do this trust-wide rather than school by school. Left to chance, AI adoption is uneven — the Education Policy Institute's 2026 review found engagement varies sharply between schools in the same trust, which widens gaps in both staff workload and pupil experience. We close that by setting one baseline every school reaches: the same practical training, one trust-wide policy, and a clear view of which schools have been trained and which haven't — so AI becomes an equitable entitlement across the trust, not a postcode lottery between your own schools.

Is there volume or trust-wide pricing?

Standalone workshops are priced per session (£425 / £885 / £1,345, up to 300 attendees, ex VAT) with 15% off every tier for education. Book three or more workshops over a rolling 12 months and every session is automatically 25% off — education orgs take 25% or 15%, whichever is greater, not both combined. For trusts that want organisation-wide capability rather than individual sessions, our Managed AI service scopes the whole rollout as a single managed engagement. Get an exact figure on the discovery call.

What reporting or oversight does the central team get?

You get a clear written view of what's been delivered and where — which schools were trained, which formats they took, and what's still outstanding — plus per-attendee certificates that count toward CPD records. Managed AI engagements include a structured quarterly review so the central team can track adoption as it matures.

Are you education specialists, or a general agency that also does trusts?

AI training for schools and trusts is a core part of what we do, not a corporate course relabelled. Every engagement is built around real classroom and school-admin work, aligned with the DfE's guidance on generative AI in education, KCSIE and UK GDPR, and designed to support good teaching and protect academic integrity. We're vendor-neutral and deliver in-house, never sub-contracted.

How does this fit with the free DfE AI training our schools can already access?

It complements it. The DfE's AI Support Collection and the Chartered College's assessment give individual staff a solid grounding, and we encourage trusts to use them. What a free, self-paced module can't deliver is consistent, governed adoption across every school — one trust-wide policy, the same practical workshop in each setting, and oversight of who has actually changed their practice. We turn that free foundation into a coordinated, trust-wide capability.

More questions
How do you handle DfE guidance, KCSIE and UK GDPR at trust scale?

The governance pack is written to align with the DfE's guidance on generative AI in education, KCSIE's treatment of generative AI as an online-safety matter, and UK GDPR data-handling duties. Because it's one central document adopted trust-wide, your filtering, monitoring and data rules are consistent across schools and your governing body can see one coherent position rather than twelve.

Do you offer a trust-wide AI readiness audit and acceptable-use policy (AUP)?

Yes. We can run a trust-wide AI readiness audit — a structured review across your schools of where AI is used, the risks, and a prioritised rollout plan — and produce one staff and student acceptable-use policy (AUP) that every member school adopts, aligned with the DfE's guidance on generative AI in education, KCSIE and UK GDPR. Both are scoped centrally with the trust.

How quickly can we roll out across multiple sites?

Standalone workshops can usually be booked within a few weeks. A full trust rollout is staged — central policy first, then baseline training across schools — so a wave of schools can be from kickoff to embedded inside a single term. The exact pace depends on how many sites you're coordinating and your term calendar. Trusts that want to keep every school current on an ongoing basis can scope Managed AI as the continuation.

Which AI tools do you cover, and is delivery sub-contracted?

We cover the tools your trust actually uses — Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and whatever sits on your stack — chosen on the discovery call so sessions are concrete, not generic. Delivery is never sub-contracted: ReadyToday's own AI specialists run every session and the governance work, and we're insured (professional indemnity and public liability).

How does this compare to a levy-funded AI apprenticeship or academic CPD?

They solve different problems. A Level 4 AI apprenticeship — often fully funded through the Apprenticeship Levy — builds one internal specialist over about 14 months: useful for long-term capacity, but it ties up a staff member and doesn't upskill your wider teaching and support teams this year. Research-led academic CPD goes deep on pedagogy but works to its own academic calendar rather than yours.

Our model is built for trusts that need practical capability across every school this term: short, timetable-friendly sessions, one trust-wide policy aligned to the DfE's guidance on generative AI in education, KCSIE and UK GDPR, transparent published pricing, and vendor-neutral tooling with no platform lock-in. It can run alongside an apprenticeship rather than replace it.

Do you provide certification or formal assurance for governors and Ofsted?

Yes — every trust engagement includes a written, trustee-ready governance pack: a trust-wide acceptable-use policy, KCSIE 2025-aligned safeguarding guardrails and UK GDPR pupil-data handling, aligned to the DfE's guidance on generative AI in education. This maps onto what the National Governance Association now expects boards to oversee (its 'Governing AI in Schools and Trusts' training launched in 2025) and onto Ofsted's October 2025 position, which examines governance and safeguarding rather than grading AI tools.

Your central team can put the pack in front of governors, parents and inspectors as evidence of a unified, safe approach, and staff receive attendance certificates that count toward CPD records. We don't issue a third-party 'certification' — the pack and certificates are the evidence governors actually ask for.

What 1:1 follow-up support do staff get after a workshop?

More than a one-off day. The Deep Dive includes seven days of direct email Q&A with the consultant who delivered the session. Dedicated 1:1 follow-up for specific staff can be scoped — so people troubleshoot their real work after the session, not just on the day. For trusts that want ongoing access and organisation-wide coverage, Managed AI provides that continuation.

Do you run sessions for parents or the wider community?

Yes. Alongside staff training we can deliver evening or community sessions — 'Helping your child use AI well' — aligned with KCSIE and the DfE's guidance, scoped per school or rolled out across the trust.

How do you compare to funded Skills Bootcamps or college AI courses?

They're useful and, where schools qualify, can be low-cost — and for deep technical upskilling of one individual they're a sensible route. They're also generic, eligibility-based and run to a fixed curriculum on someone else's timetable. We're the opposite: bespoke to your trust, built on your schools' own tasks, governed centrally, with no eligibility hoops. Many trusts use a funded course for a technical specialist and us for practical, whole-staff capability this term.

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