Academy transfers have risen back to pre-pandemic levels, with more switches triggered by trusts themselves than ever before.
Latest Department for Education figures revealed 275 academies – 2.7 per cent of those operating nationally – moved into a different trust in the last financial year.
This represents a 56.3 per cent rise on the number recorded in 2021-22 and the highest level since 2018. Transfers had dropped during the pandemic.
It comes after the government unveiled plans in April to expand, merge or create new multi-academy trusts in 55 priority areas in a bid to improve under-performing schools.
