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School collaboration
Everything you need to know for joining, establishing or growing a multi-academy trust (MAT), and advice for developing independent state schol partnerships or small-school partnerships can be found here.
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General annual grant (GAG) pooling is used by MATs to distribute money to their schools rather than top-slicing, but what are the benefits and challenges?
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School leadership teams and governors must be convinced that they are joining the right multi-academy trust. Use these key questions to help make your decision
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High-performing multi-academy trusts require strong leadership and a varied skillset among staff. Use these resources to help you lead a successful and sustainable MAT
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A robust due diligence process when creating or expanding a MAT is key to ensuring your organisation is not at risk. Use this checklist of questions to ask during the process
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A SEND review across your trust is a valuable opportunity for self-evaluation. Natalie Packer outlines the purpose and process
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Chief operating officer Tommy Cullen explains the what, why and how of centralisation in one academy trust, and how it has saved both time and money
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Centralising services in multi-academy trusts is carried out to bring efficiencies. But what can be centralised, how can it work and what are the benefits?
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More mature MATs have established processes and prioritise securing high performance for the long term. Helen Morgan explores ways to do this
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Having trust-wide safeguarding procedures ensures consistency and shares best practice across the MAT. Dai Durbridge provides a guided approach to safeguarding in a MAT
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School to school collaboration within a MAT can save time and costs, reduce workload and provide CPD opportunities. Josephine Smith describes how MAT schools can collaborate