Call to ban Trustees guilty of MAT mismanagement
Trustees who are found responsible for mismanagement in multi-academy trusts should be banned from working again in the sector, according to the head of a network of academies.
Michael Pain, the Chief Executive of Forum Strategy, will warn today that a minority of academy trust boards and leaders have risked bringing the sector into disrepute.
He is urging the Department for Education to “take a harder line on trustees that are ultimately found to have been complicit in the mismanagement of multi-academy trusts.”
Forum Strategy runs four regional networks of academy leaders in the North and Midlands.
Mr Pain will raise concerns at the group’s annual conference today that there are individuals from failed multi-academy trusts who are still operating trusts and schools.
He said: “There needs to be a strong message here. Those people who have been found to be responsible or complicit in the mismanagement of MATs should not be allowed to govern trusts or schools again.
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