Focus-Trust have around 10 primary academies, primarily based along the M62 corridor and Cheshire. The NASUWT, along with the other workforce unions, has negotiated a trade union recognition agreement with Focus-Trust for consultation and collective bargaining purposes. 

This provides the necessary structures for the NASUWT to meet with Focus-Trust at a national level and on a regular basis in the Focus-Trust Academies Joint Consultative and Negotiation Committee (JCNC).

The JCNC is where the trade unions meet with Focus-Trust to negotiate on pay, conditions of service issues and on policies and procedures for teachers and other Focus-Trust staff.

Focus-Trust currently employs teachers according to the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document and Burgundy Book in all their academies.