The UK Department for Education has issued an official notice to improve (NTI) addressed to Mighty Oaks Academy Trust — an organization managing a network of academy schools in the country. Such notices represent one of the tools of state oversight of academy trusts' activities and are typically issued when the regulator identifies problems in management, financial reporting, or educational outcomes of the institutions under its purview. Receiving such a notice obligates the trust to submit an action plan to address the identified deficiencies within set timeframes. Failure to meet the requirements may result in more serious measures from the department, including a change in the trust's leadership or transfer of the schools it manages to another operator. The specific details of the complaints against Mighty Oaks Academy Trust, as well as the timeframes allocated for remedying the situation, are not disclosed in the public notice. The Department for Education regularly publishes such documents as part of its oversight system for academy trusts, which was introduced in the UK to increase transparency and accountability in school education. An academy trust is a not-for-profit organization that manages one or more state schools (academies) in England, receiving funding directly from the central government, bypassing local authorities. The oversight system for such trusts includes regular inspections and the possibility of regulatory intervention if problems are identified in their operations.