The government is offering “strong” academy trusts grants of up to £100,000 to expand by taking on ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ schools in better-performing regions.
Experts say these “capacity giver” schools will help to improve a trust’s ability to drive up improvement at its other schools.
The new strand has been added to criteria for the second window of the 2022-23 trust capacity fund (TCaF).
The capacity fund, worth £86 million over three years, is to help trusts “develop their capacity and take on underperforming schools, particularly in education investment areas”.
