What Are Multi Academy Trusts?
What is an Academy?
- An academy school in England is a state-funded school which is directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control.
What is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT)?
- A multi-academy trust is a system where several schools join together under the leadership of a single governing body. These are the Trustees and the members.
- Essentially run like a large Charity or family of schools