Guidance updated on multi-academy trusts detailing assurance framework

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The Department for Education has updated its guidance on multi-academy trusts. The guidance documents ‘building strong academy trusts: guidance for academy trusts and prospective converter’ and ‘Trust partnerships guidance’ have been updated. Further, the previous guidance document ‘Multi-academy trust (MAT): school improvement capacity framework’ has been replaced with a new document ‘Multi-academy trust (MAT): assurance framework’ and guidance on how to use the framework. The Multi-academy trust assurance framework aims to help multi-academy trusts understand their capacity to support and enhance improvement, ensuring they can build and strengthen their capacity and grow to support more schools.