Three Barrow primaries aim to form MAT to 'avoid topslice'

From North West Evening Mail: 'Greengate Infant, Nursery and Pre-school, Victoria Junior School and Yarlside Nursery and Primary School in Barrow have registered their interest with the Department for Education with a view to changing their status.'
The paper reported Caroline Hoggarth, headteacher of Greengate Infant, Nursery and Pre School, saying: 'One reason for this would be to take us away from local authority control as they top-slice our budgets, so the funding would come directly to the schools separately.'