Academies: Closures
(asked on 7th September 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many multi-academy trusts her Department has closed in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 15th September 2016
The Department has a role in monitoring the performance of Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and the academies within them. This includes transferring an academy from one MAT to another where there are significant concerns about performance and the MAT does not have the necessary capacity to make improvements.
MATs are charitable trusts and companies limited by guarantee. It is for its board to decide whether or not to dissolve the trust; the Department has no role.