The new Schools White Paper sets out the government’s plans for all schools to either be part of, or have plans to join, a strong multi-academy trust (MAT) by 2030.
Exactly how a strong trust will be defined is a topic for another day. But one thing that we do know is that the government isn’t keen on small or single-academy trusts. They’ve said that in future they’ll expect most trusts to run at least 10 schools, or at least be working towards it.
So this seems like an opportune moment to take a look at how big MATs are at the moment, and how that’s changed over time.
We’ll be using public data covering the period 2018-22.
