Suggestions include creating a taskforce to act as mentors to those sponsors struggling to realise their potential, and commissioning robust research that analyses the factors behind a chain's success in providing
transformational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.
The reasons for these differences weren't always clear, but the authors note that the groups with the
best outcomes for disadvantaged pupils had two things in common: they had been running schools for a number of years, and had expanded slowly.
Better use of research can help schools spend their resources in the most efficient ways and make a real difference to
outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.»
There continues to be very significant variation in
outcomes for disadvantaged pupils, both between and within chains
If you focus on disadvantaged pupils, you see very significant variation in
outcomes for disadvantaged pupils, both between and within MATs.