| Northern Education Trust | |
| Type: | Multi-academy trust |
| Registration Id: | 07189647 |
| Location: | Thorp Academy, Main Road, Ryton, NE40 3AH |
| Key People: | Rob Tarn, CEO |
| Focus: | Education |
| Motto: | "Outcome Focused, Child Centred" |
| Footnotes: | UID 4036 |
Northern Education Trust is a multi-academy trust operating in the North of England. It was established in 2010 and operates 27 academies; 10 primary and 17 secondary. In 2017 it was instrumental in setting up the Northern Alliance of Trusts.
All Northern Education Trust schools inspected by Ofsted have now been judged "Good" or "Outstanding".[1]
The proportion of students at Red House academy who attained a pass in English and maths rose from 32% in 2017 to 58% in 2019.[2]
, there are a total of 22 academies affiliated with Northern Education Trust: 10 primary academies and 13 secondary academies.[3]
The Conservative education minister, Lord Agnew, in response to comments that academies are no better at managing deprived schools than the Local education authority they replaced, urged smaller academy trusts to team up to create bigger academy trusts.[4] The Northern Alliance is the first formal partnership of its kind between larger chains.
The Northern Alliance of Trusts is made up of eight members:
The academy trusts continue to act as independent legal entities, but were sharing resource for the good of its members.[5]
It receives a public money grant from the Strategic School Improvement Fund which targeted resources at the schools most in need to improve school performance and pupil attainment. They favoured schemes where schools helped each other. It was opened in 2017 and gave grants for two years.[6] . The alliance is working on common procurement, leadership standards, fund raising and to work on recruitment and retention of teachers.[7]