The Anglian Learning academy trust won a top award for excellent governance at the start of the year. As the white paper puts academy governance centre stage, Jess Staufenberg finds out what good looks like
Governance has posed a big question mark over the multi-academy trust model, ever since academisation was turbo-boosted in 2010.
Maintained schools always had a governor board, usually with two parent governors, as standard. But under a MAT, the trust has its central board of trustees, who sit above governors of individual schools.
