Opinion: Academy trusts

How a trust merger has grown our ambition and scale

Bringing two trusts together isn't without its challenges but the rewards are for everyone

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Dan Thomas
Opinion: Academy trusts

Thriving local trusts are a strong part of our system’s offer 

The large and varied sector of locality-based trusts presents a collective effervescence whose distinct strengths should not be neglected,...

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Donna Tandy
Opinion: Academy trusts

Trusts face a reckoning over their growth plans

More interest in sponsorship of a dwindling number of schools means smaller trusts should bet on growth by other...

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David Thomas
Opinion: Academy trusts

When it’s done right, centralisation is collaboration

Steve Brownlow explores one of the key tensions at the heart of school trusts and how to balance agency...

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Steve Brownlow
Opinion: Academy trusts

The RAAC crisis proves the power of being in a MAT

It hasn't been a cake-walk, but the strength in depth our MAT provides has allowed us to weather the...

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James Browning
Opinion: Academy trusts

Joining a MAT helped us rebuild trust and re-imagine success   

Being brokered to a MAT after a poor Ofsted showing was not the unpleasant experience some had feared, says...

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Melanie Hall-Judd
Opinion: Academy trusts

Three priorities to set the MAT-led system on a course to success

Steve Taylor sets out the Queen Street Group’s top priorities for the year ahead - and to set the...

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Steve Taylor
Opinion: Academy trusts

Harlow Academy now thrives – but schools need more safeguards

Not enough has been done to ensure the harm caused at Harlow Academy never happens elsewhere, write Warren Carratt...

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Wayne Norrie and Warren Carratt