Academy CEO who ran two trusts saw pay rise by at least 12.5 per cent, accounts disclose

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The chief executive of a multi-academy trust saw her pay rise by at least 12.5 per cent after being appointed to take on a second chain simultaneously, newly-published accounts have disclosed.

The remuneration of Donna Moulds, of the five-school Oval Learning Trust, who was at the centre of controversy last year over her stewardship of a second, related, trust comes despite ministers having launched a crackdown in the past two years on senior pay rises in the academy sector.

And it comes with the accounts of a larger chain separately showing that its high-profile chief executive was awarded a rise of 5.8 per cent last year. In February 2018, the academies minister, Lord Agnew, wrote to trusts saying he did not expect leadership pay to rise faster than that of teachers, whose award in 2018-19 was substantially less than this.

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