MATs: don't build, it's easier to take over schools

A story in the Manchester Evening News from May says: ' ...the Co-op trust, which had initially expressed an interest, has now told the town hall it would rather take over existing schools under the government’s forced academisation policy, announced in March’s budget. Building a new school is ‘labour intensive’ compared to simply taking over existing ones, it said. It is understood other trusts have taken a similar view.'