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Warren Carratt

Warren Carratt is Chief Executive Officer of Nexus MAT, a medium sized trust providing education to children across the South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire regions, with a majority of special schools. A “first generation” CEO, Warren was recruited to post following national advert, in 2016. Since August 2022, Warren has also been the CEO of the Evolve Trust, a failed MAT which he was appointed to lead with the specific brief of re-brokering its academies so that the Trust could be closed.

Warren has not come through the Headteacher route, instead having a background in local government and the NHS. Warren is a sitting Magistrate on the South Yorkshire bench, and is also an independent member of the South Yorkshire Police & Crime Panel, the statutory body which holds the Police & Crime Commissioner to account. He is an advisory member to the Staff College, and is also a member of the Department for Education’s Attendance Action Alliance.  He lives in Rotherham, South Yorks.