No such thing as a long lunch: 1 in 10 schools provide under 30 minutes New study shows food served up is ‘poorly received’ and 20% of kids do their only exercise in school
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
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
Academy scandal reports will no longer name offenders Reports are now ‘outcomes’ of investigations, as opposed to investigation reports
RISE improvement advisers: ‘best of the best’ or ‘clipboard carrying bureaucrats’? Who are the government’s new improvement advisers, and how will they operate?
DfE publishes decade-old academy investigations Investigation ‘outcome’ reports into five academy controversies dating as far back as 14 years published
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
Councils take up to 9% of school budgets for core services Findings challenge claims trusts charge their schools more for services away from classrooms
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