Church schools facing forced academy conversion Catholic and Anglican chiefs say that multi-academy trusts can solve ‘existential’ threats
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
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
ESFA probes trust forced to up top-slice after overspend Documents suggest the Oval trust ‘set a deficit budget, miscalculated income…and overspent’, while a new board came in after a row with the diocese
New alliance to stop schools being swept under MAT Experts said the new West Kent Single Academy Trust Alliance showed there were ‘other models’ to the government’s preferred MATs
How do you solve a problem like academies? Ministers face difficult choices as they seek to move more schools into academy trusts