News

Academy bailouts should come with merger clause, demands Agnew

It comes after two trusts were given multi-million pound lifelines after racking up £600,000 deficits

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News

Who are the stuck schools getting RISE support?

Just a few of the schools are in London and some belong to trusts with RISE advisers

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Academy scandal reports will no longer name offenders

Reports are now 'outcomes' of investigations, as opposed to investigation reports

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Jack Dyson
Academies

RISE improvement advisers: ‘best of the best’ or ‘clipboard carrying bureaucrats’?

Who are the government's new improvement advisers, and how will they operate?

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Jack Dyson
News

DfE publishes decade-old academy investigations

Investigation 'outcome' reports into five academy controversies dating as far back as 14 years published

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RISE teams

45 more advisers recruited to join ‘best of the best’ RISE teams

Four in five of the government's new school improvement consultants are from the trust sector

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School funding

Councils take up to 9% of school budgets for core services

Findings challenge claims trusts charge their schools more for services away from classrooms

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Schools have 28% of budgets shaved off by academy trust ‘GAG pooling’

Unions are now demanding greater scrutiny over how trusts pool budgets, as schools await promised guidance

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Governors told to ‘resign’ if they don’t back Catholic mega MAT plans

And another diocese tells governors they could only pass compliance checks with evidence they supported academisation

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Jack Dyson