MATs

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,...

JL Dutaut
Donna Tandy
MATs

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...

JL Dutaut
David Thomas
MATs

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...

JL Dutaut
Steve Brownlow
MATs

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...

JL Dutaut
James Browning
MATs

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...

JL Dutaut
Melanie Hall-Judd
MATs

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...

JL Dutaut
Steve Taylor
MATs

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...

JL Dutaut
Wayne Norrie and Warren Carratt
MATs

Former AET boss Julian Drinkall to take over at GLF

Drinkall returns to the sector to take over from Jon Chaloner who will stand down at the end of...

John Dickens
John Dickens
MATs

7 new details on how MAT CEO training scheme will work

£3.8m contract for government's trust boss development programme published

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth