Male, Trevor;
(2022)
The rise and rise of academy trusts: continuing changes to the state-funded school system in England.
School Leadership & Management
, 42
(4)
pp. 313-333.
10.1080/13632434.2022.2095996.
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Abstract
This paper delineates the growth of academy trusts in England before exploring government intentions to base the future state-funded school system on ‘strong’ multi-academy trusts. Academies, directly funded by the central government, first appeared in 2002 as an alternative to local authority-managed provision, with the initial intention of addressing continued underperformance of schools in urban areas. It was not until 2010, however, with an incoming Coalition government that the academisation process was widened, a policy seemingly driven by a desire to limit the influence of local authorities in line with principles of new public management (NPM). The number of academies increased dramatically (for a variety of reasons) to the point where now over half the school population are within them. Individual academies have, since the appointment of Regional School Commissioners in 2014, been encouraged to join formally with other academies as multi-academy trusts (MATs). Whilst by 2022 there were nearly 10,000 academies, most were in MATs with the government signalling its intention through a White Paper to base the future on them. The academisation process has featured several areas of concern, however, not all of which will be resolved by the policy statements contained in this proposal for new legislation.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The rise and rise of academy trusts: continuing changes to the state-funded school system in England |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/13632434.2022.2095996 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2022.2095996 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Academy trusts, White Paper, Social Mobility, governance |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153712 |
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