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Pennine Alliance Learning Trust and Trinity Multi-Academy Trust had been exploring a possible merger, but the process has now ended with one chair stepping down

The 43-school trust says the improvement in its finances reflects ‘strong expense management and receipt of unbudgeted income’

School sector leaders raise concerns about the value, purpose and equity of the government plan to push ahead with Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts

The appointments come after Ofsted’s chair recommended that the inspectorate’s governing board should be ‘revised’

Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust says in its latest accounts that ‘most schools have agreed in-year deficit budget plans’ for 2025-26

With Labour announcing that it will introduce inspections of trusts, what do the accountability arrangements for groups of schools in other parts of the world tell us about how the new system will operate? Loic Menzies takes a look

Given that academy trusts are responsible for school improvement, it is right that they are held accountable for the systems and cultures they create, says this MAT chief executive

Outwood Grange Academies Trust also upped its reserves by 9 per cent year-on-year to £43.7 million, its latest accounts show

The Confederation of School Trusts’ Steve Rollett questions the overarching strategy behind Labour’s plans for inspecting academy trusts

Inspections of academy trusts could be launched in 2027-28 as Labour legislates for a major new role for Ofsted

Writing exclusively for Tes, the education secretary sets out the government’s rationale for bringing trusts into Ofsted’s inspection remit

Thirty-school trust says the size of the financial deficits being reported by special schools mean that it cannot take on any more