ESFA

12 ESFA staff get £50k+ exit packages amid restructure

Annual accounts of funding agency also reveal how £5.8m in debts owed by academies have been written-off

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Jack Dyson
RAAC

School with RAAC ‘might not be repaired for four years’

Pupils currently being bussed to separate school as primary shut for months

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Schools

What’s new in the DfE’s expanded reading framework?

Updated guidelines suggest in-class 'influencers' could get more children reading

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Jack Dyson
Schools

Trust reviews policies after CEO’s ‘premium’ Apple event flights

Auditors flag 'financial issue' after trust forked out £1k for journey

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Ministers urged to add ‘depth’ to trust accountability assessments

Leaders sound caution over using 'quantitative measures' to compare chains

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Jack Dyson
School buildings

Academy trust hopes merger will ease repair worries

DfE approved just one in three bids for money from the latest round of the condition improvement fund

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Revealed: The metrics that will be used for academy decisions

Government hopes guidance will shed light on behind-closed-doors commissioning

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Ministers told to scrap academy order after ‘good’ Ofsted

City's last maintained secondary at centre of parent campaign overturns 'inadequate' rating

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Plug pulled on government-backed turnaround trust

Falcon trust, set up to take on schools no-one else wanted, will now close

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Jack Dyson