A turnaround academy trust launched by the government to take on schools nobody else wants is set to be shut down.
Ministers unveiled Falcon Education Academies Trust, as part of a pilot called EdMAT in 2019, with the original remit of absorbing the most challenging primaries and secondaries in the north.
Even though the trust was later given the go-ahead to branch out nationwide, it now has just four schools – spread across Stockton-on-Tees, Leeds, Birmingham and Swadlincote – on its books.
Schools Week can reveal it will now close in the 2023-24 academic year, after the Department for Education decided not to extend the trial.
