Another major academy trust in large-scale redundancy drive

Now Academy Transformation Trust planning to cut frontline and central service jobs.

One of England’s larger multi-academy trusts is in the midst of plans to make more than 10 teachers and possibly scores of support staff redundant, across at least 11 schools, in the latest cost-cutting drive to hit the sector.

Academy Transformation Trust (ATT), which runs 21 schools and a further education college from its base in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, appears to have been under pressure from the government to address a financial deficit, with redundancies among both central and school-based staff now in the offing.

It is the latest trust to move towards redundancies, with Education Uncovered having reported in detail on plans for more than 40 job cuts at the south London-based Harris Federation, and with another large trust, Oasis Community Learning, having last week also been reported as making cutbacks. 

However, unlike Harris, ATT has been going through a formal consultation process at trust level with its staff unions, and has also included its central operations within the scope of its plans.