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A new requirement for trusts to work together brings up the question of how to do that well. Professor Michael Green breaks down four approaches to collaboration that deliver real impact

The experience of colleges with government pay controls suggests academy trusts will be left in limbo waiting for executive salaries to be approved, leader warns

Trusts running specialist schools come in a range of shapes and sizes – but how are they evolving and what role will they play in the government’s SEND reforms?

The Queen Street Group of MATs also highlights calls for trust-wide approaches to AI

Three trust leaders tell ÌÇÐÄVlog about their first month in the job – what surprised them, what they learned and the advice that helped them through it

DfE publishes detailed framework explaining how its controls on academy executive salaries will work

Amid ongoing calls to rethink how Ofsted operates, a senior trust leader says it’s vital that school leaders are supported by the wider organisation before, during and after any inspection

Financial sustainability has fallen from being trusts’ top strategic priority, findings reveal, while SEND is a big priority for leaders in the year ahead

A trust CEO outlines the tough but necessary steps they took to save money and reduce top slice spend from 6.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent

ÌÇÐÄVlog examines the outlook for the academies sector in the North West, as part of our MAT Tracker series delving into regional movements and trends

New large-scale analysis highlights the benefits of schools joining academy trusts – particularly those in disadvantaged areas, writes the deputy CEO of the Confederation of School Trusts

But Confederation of School Trusts’ research report admits there is ‘uncertainty’ over the reasons why academies showed greater improvement in results