Academy freedoms? ‘I’ve never seen teachers more enslaved’ says school standards tsar Sir Kevan Collins warns of a ‘narrow compliance culture’ in some schools
Intervention model for regional improvement teams revealed New teams will RAG rate schools for support, draw up ‘local area priorities’ and use councils for help
Revealed: 36 leaders to form CST policy advisory group New panel will help ‘shape the policy landscape for school trusts across England’
We’re putting trust leaders at the heart of policy development CST’s new policy advisory group will provide ‘critical, front-line perspectives that will help to shape the policy landscape for school trusts’, writes Steve Rollett
Academy conversion grant scrapped and ‘no plans’ for further trust capacity fund cash Academies body says decisions will make it ‘much more difficult’ for trusts to support schools in need and will leave smaller primaries ‘vulnerable’
United Learning to launch charity to run community hubs But country’s largest trust stresses the initiative won’t ‘take resource from teaching and learning’
Lilac Sky scandal: £3m of ‘contentious, irregular or improper’ payments revealed Government investigation ‘outcome’ report comes eight years after intervention, but contains just three pages and few details
New law mustn’t rule CEOs are ‘support staff’, DfE told The organisation representing academies in England wants central teams to be excluded from the bill’s definition of support staff
Revealed: The 125 leaders in the running for CST policy group The elected group will draw on leaders from across England and give feedback on policy issues facing academies