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Scaling Finances: 5 Key Considerations for Growing MATs
16th May 2024 | Audit | Finance | MAT | MATs | MATs/Academies
When a MAT takes on new schools, along comes new financial demands. Here's how to ensure your finances and financial processes remain robust as your trust grows.
Enhancing Internal Scrutiny in Academy Trusts: A Comprehensive Approach to Risk Mitigation
9th October 2023 | Internal Scrutiny | MAT | MATs
Internal scrutiny plays a crucial role in assessing controls and risk management procedures within academy trusts. It involves planning and executing a risk-based exercise that is informed by the trust's risk register. The main objective is to provide advice to the trust board and ensure the adequate identification and management of risks.
Leadership and Governance Structure: A Catalyst for Growth or an Impediment?
11th July 2023 | MAT | MATs | MATs/Academies | Governance
How the right structure, coupled with strategic planning, can ensure the realization of your vision while driving school improvement.
How does a multi-academy trust know if its vision and strategy are aligned with its growth plan?
30th June 2023 | MAT | MATs | MATs/Academies
Several steps can be taken to ensure alignment between the vision, strategy, and growth plan of a multi-academy trust. By following these steps, a multi-academy trust can ensure that its vision and strategy remain aligned with its growth plan.
The Importance of Analysing Your School’s Pupil Behaviour Data
12th June 2023 | MATs | Technology
In today's educational landscape, schools in England face numerous challenges in ensuring the academic success and wellbeing of their students. To address these challenges effectively, it is crucial for schools to gather and analyse comprehensive data, including pupil behaviour data.
Pupil Absence: The Consequences of Poor Attendance Levels
6th June 2023 | MATs | Technology
In recent years, pupil absence has emerged as a growing concern. Poor attendance levels have far-reaching consequences for both individual learners and society as a whole. By highlighting the significant consequences it has on students, their educational outcomes, and wider society and in understanding the implications of poor attendance, we can work towards effective strategies and interventions to address this issue and ensure that all students have access to quality education.