Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will place in the Library a copy the Education and Skills Funding Agency report Multi-Academy Trust Review of Bright Tribe and Adventure Learning Academies Trust: Final Report, published in March 2016.
The purpose of Multi Academy Trust reviews conducted by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is to obtain assurance and to provide trusts with an opportunity to improve their governance. Such reviews are routine, but require openness by both sides and it is not the policy of the agency to routinely publish or otherwise make public the outputs of the work. However, the ESFA published a Financial Management and Governance Report in November 2016 of the two trusts in question and this is available at: