Government officials are working on plans to package up “clusters” of schools eligible for government intervention so they can be moved en-masse into large academy trusts.
Jonathan Gullis, the former schools minister, told Schools Week that officials wanted to be more strategic about academy expansion and help large trusts into areas in which they did not have schools.
At present most “rebrokering” of academies or conversion of failing maintained schools is done on a case-by-case basis.
The proposals are supported by the country’s leading trusts, which will be integral in helping ministers deliver their pledge for all schools to be in a “strong” trust by 2030.
