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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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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Jack Dyson
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
SEND

Kent council’s controversial special school inclusion plans shelved

Proposals to redesignate special schools amid accusations some 'turned away most complex pupils' faced legal threats

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Jack Dyson
News

MAT mulls ‘action short of merger’ with other trusts

Astrea Academy Trust CEO says 'there are models for doing things differently' that would allow trusts to collaborate without...

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Fears Catholic school heads ‘coerced’ into mega-MATs

Union raises concerns leaders 'met with hostility' amid rows over archdiocese plans for 'universal academisation'

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Jack Dyson