Rachel Barrett is a Business Services Director and Head of Academies at Duncan & Toplis.
Since joining in 2007, she has helped build a specialist education team that supports academies, multi-academy trusts and independent schools.
Rachel focuses on team leadership, service quality, and continuous improvement, ensuring timely, high-quality support for clients. She works closely with her team to develop talent and foster a collaborative culture.
Rachel also supports owner-managed businesses and brings first-hand experience of running a family company, having helped establish and grow a successful hair salon.
Alongside her role, Rachel is active in the education sector as a trustee and Chair of Finance at a standalone secondary academy trust and Vice Chair of the local governing body at a primary school. She also serves as a trustee of The Duncan & Toplis Foundation.
The education sector continues to operate in a fast-changing and uncertain environment. For academy trusts, a combination of evolving regulatory expectations and […]
The growth of multi-academy trusts (MATs) in the UK has accelerated in recent years, fuelled by cashflow difficulties of standalone academies, financial […]
