Job losses when taken over by a MAT

[Theduchessstill]

Our school,currently a stand alone academy, is being firmly nudged towards becoming part of a MAT. There are a lot of stories circulating about potential job losses if this happens. I know it is common for HTs to lose their jobs in these circumstances, especially if it's triggered by very poor results, but what about other staff?

People are saying 40% of staff could lose their jobs, but how could that actually happen. Surely we have some rights and they can't just sweep in and sack people on day one? I'm aware they can, and probably will, take measures to manage people out that they don't want, but here I'm asking about the possibility of simply saying from day one "we're letting you go..."

People are also talking about restructuring and losing TLRs, but then in the same meeting TLRs being protected for 3 years was also mentioned.

I have Googled but can't find a definitive answer. Also, would job losses do occur, would they be conducted as sackings or redundancies?

Thanks for any info - feeling a little panicky here!

Are you a teacher or support staff?? Unfortunately at our MAT lots of support staff have gone. 1 teacher has gone as they made class sizes slightly larger in ks2. It can happen but not overnight. Can you find out about schools that are already in the MAT? About the staffing etc?

We joined a MAT two years ago - absolutely nothing has changed at our school

Nearly everyone left within 3 years and I think everyone apart from a couple of TAs and 2 teacher from a 3 form primary within 5 years here...

Partly they made it so hard that people went sick/put in year geoups/with people they didnt want to to encourage to leave or moved to another school in the academy. New rules came down from high and crushed all existing communities....

It is actually a lovely school now but the top down way they crushed the old school was brutal.

Your pay is protected for three years if they reorganise but all contracts can be redrawn with reduced TAs, fewer roles - have to find some way to pay the chief exec.

Thanks all - seems to tie in with what I thought. I'm a teacher, and an expensive one at that with a TLR, so not in a great position, but it seems we would have time to find an exit if need be rather than be kicked out the door as they walk in...

My “bad” school was taken over by a MAT. Quite a few admin and support staff were made redundant, but none of the teachers. Nothing much has changed.

We saw centralisation of some support roles (HR, publicity, finance), we also saw some restructuring with HofKS instead of HoY, but those people had 3yrs protected pay.
We have also seen a huge injection of cash into school infrastructure though, widening if CPD options and greater range of experiences available...so a bit of both I guess...