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| Founded | March 15, 2010 |
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| Type | Multi-academy trust |
| Registration no. | 07189647 |
| Focus | Education |
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| Coordinates | 53°42′32″N1°30′47″W / 53.70895°N 1.51292°W |
Key people | Rob Tarn, CEO |
| Website | northerneducationtrust |
| UID 4036 | |
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As of September 2024 [update] , there were a total of 29 academies run by the Northern Education Trust. [1] As of 2023, all NET schools inspected by Ofsted were judged "Good" or "Outstanding", even in cases where the predecessor schools had been deemed "Indadequate". [2]
In 2017 it was instrumental in setting up the Northern Alliance of Trusts. In 2019, the academies minister, Lord Agnew, announced a new growth fund to support smaller academy trusts to merge to create bigger trusts and share resources, in response criticisms of the efficiency academies. [3] [ relevant? ] Northern Alliance of Trusts received a grant from the Department for Education Strategic School Improvement Fund. This was funding aimed at in-need schools to improve school performance and pupil attainment, and favoured schemes in which schools helped each other. Funding opened in 2017 and gave grants for two years. [4]
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