Church schools facing forced academy conversion Catholic and Anglican chiefs say that multi-academy trusts can solve ‘existential’ threats
Investigation: The long wait for justice Former pupils who battled to get school leader’s alleged sex offences reinvestigated urge child abuse victims to keep speaking out
Archdiocese ‘ruling by diktat’ as schools told to academise by 2023 The Archbishop of Birmingham has said academisation is an “essential” reform to protect Catholic education
Ofsted boost for school in ‘David and Goliath’ court battle against academisation A ‘good’ rating takes Yew Tree Primary School a step closer to resisting academisation after it took the DfE to court
Schools told to hike contributions to boost repairs grant bids Schools must double their contributions to score top marks in CIF bids
‘Not a race’ for all schools to join MATs, says Herrington Dominic Herrington’s comments come amid predictions all schools will convert by 2030, and warnings of resistance from maintained and standalone schools
Councils set to raid school budgets as £50m improvement grant faces axe The DfE said axing improvement funds and letting councils top-slice school budgets instead meant a ‘smoother transition’ to full academisation
Spending review: What schools can expect as pay freeze lifted School leaders welcome end of pay freeze and new SEND funding, but fear no extra cash for wage rises and a new DfE cost-cutting drive
Government vetoes more academy deals with linked firms 108 academy trust ‘related party transactions’ were blocked in 2020-21, more than twice the previous year’s figures