Unions

Heads’ union pushes for academies’ right to rejoin councils

In an interview with Schools Week, heads' leader also urges government not to 'flinch' in the face of 'soft...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Strikes

NEU backs strikes ‘blueprint’ to ‘take on’ large MATs

Conference also votes to aim to win improved working conditions and 'undermine the notion of academy freedoms'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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

Jack Dyson
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

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Former MAT boss cleared of historic child sex offence allegations

The ex-'orphan school' trust boss found not guilty on all seven counts he faced, following a trial at Leeds...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Movers and Shakers

Russell Hobby to be CEO of The Kemnal Academies Trust

Ex-NAHT general secretary and Teach First leader announced plans to leave the teacher training charity last year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Fears Catholic school heads ‘coerced’ into mega-MATs

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

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Academy trust will press on with pension change despite government ‘threats’

England's biggest MAT to go ahead with controversial plan to offer less generous pensions in return for higher salaries

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson