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An image with the heading: The MAT pressure cooker. There are two circles in the centre, left labelled EXTERNAL and right labelled INTERNAL. Surrounding them are words. On the left, there is the label PRESSURES, and around that there are: Ofsted, Regional school commisioners, reputation, Poor schools drag down standards overall, To grow, Failure to attract good Governors and leaders, Competition from other MATs, Department for Education. On the right, there is the label RISKS, and words surrounding it: EFA, financial failure, Educational failure, failing students, Failure to connect/engage with community, Failure to attract good teachers, Failure to cohere as MAT, To remain small, To make the model work. There are arrows coming from the top, and going round all of these words, one coming round the left and one coming around the right, joining in the middle at the bottom. Below this, there is a label on the left: Collaborative success and innovation, and on the right: Collaborative inertia, stagnation and re-brokering. In the centre bottom, there is the label Political policy pressures - Government.