From boilers to putrefied rat remains, from magic buckets to burglar alarms – assurance is not well understood in education and the consequences can be catastrophic. MAT chief executive Mark Wilson explains


Assurance. Perhaps not the most exciting subject on the face of it, but please stay with me!

This is an area of school management that in my experience has meant danger, trepidation, near misses – and even the horror of putrefied rats (more about that later).

As chief executive of a large multi-academy trust, I talk a lot about assurance. The concept is generally not well understood in the schools sector, and this represents a problem. At its most basic, we are talking about the process of confirming that an organisation’s requirements are being met and enabling it to operate effectively and efficiently.

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