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DfE gave academy trust £500k despite serious concerns about finances

Senior Department for Education officials were alerted to a string of concerns at a high-profile academy trust before it...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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WCAT broke funding rules a year before its collapse, DfE review finds

The doomed Wakefield City Academy Trust broke government funding rules 16 times in 2016, according to a review of...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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New lease of life for 11 WCAT schools

Eleven of the schools previously run by the collapsed Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) have officially transferred to new sponsors....

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Police investigations continue into Bright Tribe and WCAT

Police officers are continuing their enquiries into whether criminal offences have been committed either by the Bright Tribe Trust...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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WCAT school left without sponsor over £1 million-a-year PFI contract

A private finance initiative contract costing more than £1 million a year has stopped one of the last schools...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Sponsors for WCAT schools have ‘variable’ school improvement record

The government needs to explain why it picked certain trusts as sponsors for the schools that belonged to the...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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RSC pushed to rebroker WCAT schools NINE months before official announcements

The regional schools commissioner first pushed to remove schools from Wakefield City Academies trust in December 2016, though it...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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WCAT to give away all 21 of its schools

The Wakefield City Academies Trust is giving up all 21 of its schools, shocking staff, parents and pupils as...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Wakefield City Academies Trust appoints new chief executive

The Wakefield City Academies Trust has appointed a new chief executive to deliver a “renewed focus on teaching and...

John Dickens
John Dickens