Tailored planning and optimisation services for Multi-Academy Trusts, helping you make strategic decisions about your school estate and resources across multiple sites.
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Our MAT Optimise service provides Multi-Academy Trusts with detailed analysis and planning tools to make the most of their educational estate and resources across multiple schools. We help you identify opportunities for improvement, plan for future needs, and secure necessary funding.
Using our proprietary methodologies and extensive experience in the education sector, we deliver actionable insights that lead to tangible improvements in space utilisation, resource allocation, and educational outcomes across your trust.
Our team works closely with you to understand your specific challenges and goals, ensuring that our recommendations are tailored to your unique context and requirements.
Key Benefits
- Optimise use of existing school spaces across your Trust
- Strategic planning for multiple sites
- Identify funding opportunities and cost savings
- Data-driven development planning
- Trust-wide resource allocation optimisation
Our MAT Optimise Services Include
School Space Planning
- School Internal Space & Mainstream Projections
- School/Other Assets External Space Mapping
- BB103 Sufficiency Review
- BB103 Development Plan
- Timetable/Efficiency Assessments
Projections & Planning
- Early Years, Mainstream and SEND/AP Projections
- Pupil Home Locations
- Deprivation Data
- Potential Risks
- Changes to Local School Places
Funding & Resources
- Capital Funding Identification
- Options Appraisal
- Local Developments
- LA High Level Profile
Estate Management
- School Block Age
- DEC Energy Ratings
- DfE Condition
- School Level Profile
Development Planning
- BB104 Sufficiency Review
- BB104 Development Plan
- Early Years
A selection of our "Optimise" Multi-Academy Trust strategic planning dashboards are shown below:
MAT Asset Mapping
Comprehensive mapping of all trust assets across multiple sites, providing detailed property information, tenure details, and geographic distribution to support strategic estate management decisions.
MAT Funding Review
Our Funding Review dashboard provides Multi-Academy Trusts with a comprehensive view of capital funding opportunities, including Section 106/CIL contributions, condition funding allocations, and other capital investment opportunities to support strategic planning and resource allocation across the trust.
MAT Options Appraisal
This powerful Options Appraisal tool enables Multi-Academy Trusts to evaluate schools across the trust using multiple criteria, including capacity metrics, pupil demographics, funding, condition data, and geographic distribution. The dashboard supports strategic decision-making for estate planning, resource allocation, and identifying schools that may benefit from expansion, consolidation, or targeted investment.
School Block Age, DfE Condition Data and DEC Information
Comprehensive analysis of school building conditions, age profiles, and energy performance across your trust's estate. This dashboard combines DfE condition data, Display Energy Certificates (DEC), and building element analysis to support strategic estate management, prioritize maintenance investments, and identify opportunities for energy efficiency improvements.
Success Story
Diverse Academies Trust
Return on Investment
£1 of 1st Planner Fees Resulted in £84 of capital investment, equating to ROI of 8,385%
How We Helped
Diverse Academies Trust needed to optimise their school estate across multiple academies, while planning for changing demographics and educational requirements. Our MAT Optimise service provided a comprehensive analysis of their current estate and future needs.
We identified opportunities to repurpose underutilised spaces, developed accurate projections for pupil numbers, and created a strategic plan for estate development that aligned with available funding sources across the entire trust.
Ready to Optimise Your Multi-Academy Trust's Educational Estate?
Contact us today to discuss how our MAT Optimise service can help you create high-quality school places while maximising your resources across your trust.