Revealed: The council schools with million pound budget deficits Some maintained schools’ deficits dwarf those of multi academy trusts, and even face interest payments. Inside the hidden world of LA school finances
Another Catholic diocese plans mega MATs ‘Shifting demographics’ and financial pressures have left trusts needing to ‘serve more than 10,000’, says diocese
Island’s exodus reversed: How pupils are coming back to Sheppey Teachers deemed the school too dangerous. Now pupils are flooding back, but there are rumblings of discontent
Paul Smith to be a CEO again with move to EMET Former regional schools commissioner set to lead 24-school Midlands trust, it has been announced
RISE support trust refused new schools over ‘not strong enough’ outcomes Government officials raise ‘quality’ concerns as they tell trust ‘sustained improvement’ needed to grow
Why mergers succeed, and what we can learn from those that don’t Trusts that bear the battle scars of past mergers show us that a match of values is more important than efficiency, says a governance expert
Ormiston trust gives up founding school The academy chain plans to hand the school over to a trust ‘with strong local presence and capacity’
‘Savings platform’ plan to help schools get better reserve returns Government thinks vision will ease school funding woes by ‘unlocking’ the sector’s ‘substantial reserves’
‘The best-kept secret in education’: Hobby on his new TKAT vocation Halfway through his tour of the trust’s 45 schools, Hobby reveals what challenges await him in his new role