Solutions for multi-academy trusts

We support you, as MAT leaders, and your schools with everything from monitoring risk and compliance to improving school performance and financial sustainability.

Select from our 3 MAT solutions to best meet your needs, whether you want to ensure your schools are up to date with compliance, provide access to high-quality safeguarding training and resources plus expert advice and ready-to-use policies, or offer all of this plus CPD for your schools.

With over 10 years’ experience of supporting education leaders, and a member base of more than 45% of schools in the country, we understand how to effectively support MATs to ensure the best pupil outcomes.

Our solutions

Comply

Compliance support for your trust

A real-time dashboard view, giving you increased visibility of compliance across all your schools
Instant reports on compliance to share with trustees
Alerts about requirement changes and policy review dates, ensuring any risk associated with failing compliance is reduced
A central place to upload, store and manage trust-wide policies

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Develop

Compliance support, plus safeguarding support, expert content and model policies

Everything in Comply
High-quality safeguarding training materials and e-learning through our Safeguarding Training Centre, ensuring that all your staff are compliant and DSLs are up to date
Our knowledge bank of information and resources for your trust staff, addressing key MAT challenges
Leadership support for all your schools, with access to thousands of practical resources from The Key for School Leaders and The Key for School Governors
Our policy bank featuring ready-to-use, legally compliant model policies, which can be easily edited for trust-wide or local use

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Advance

Compliance and safeguarding support, expert content and policies, plus CPD

Everything in Develop
Over 30 practical, cross-phase CPD courses
High-quality, trusted courses created in partnership with leading organisations and subject specialists
An easy to use training library, that staff across your MAT can use to identify and plan training
Ready-to-use high-impact resources, that will save time and improve workload pressures
Enhanced service through a dedicated account manager, regular progress meetings and face-to-face training

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Compliance Tracker

Access our Compliance Tracker dashboard to:

Get visibility over compliance for central teams, trustees and schools
Avoid the financial risk and reputational damage of compliance failures
Save time on compliance tasks and decrease administration workload for your central team, with our checklists, alerts and task assignment functions
Easily upload, store and manage policies and evidence of compliance across all schools in one central place

Expert advice, practical resources and ready-to-use policies

Our trusted information and guidance will help you to:

Stay on top of the latest MAT insight and operational practice
Provide essential support to your schools, while reducing the pressure on your central staff
Establish trust-wide, legally-compliant policies

Safeguarding Training Centre

Use our training centre to:

Stay up to date and train your staff, with the latest safeguarding training and guidance
Save your designated safeguarding leads significant time spent preparing and delivering training, and give them time to deal with difficult safeguarding issues
Deliver engaging and pilot-tested training that will encourage your staff to collaborate effectively

CPD Toolkit

Use our training resources to:

Strengthen and refresh your MAT’s CPD offer, without the need for expensive external consultants
Deliver collaborative training that promotes a culture of improvement and shared learning throughout your MAT
Save your staff time and effort preparing training themselves, and allow them to make more impact in the classroom
Develop consistent approaches to some of the most challenging issues, such as behaviour management, working with pupils with EAL, and engaging with difficult parents

Solutions for multi-academy trusts

Our solutions

Comply

Develop

Advance

Get in touch to find out more about how The Key can support your MAT

Our services and tools

Compliance Tracker

Expert advice, practical resources and ready-to-use policies

Safeguarding Training Centre

CPD Toolkit

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