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Ofsted inspections of MATs should be ungraded, says CST

Confederation of School Trusts (CST) gives its feedback on plans for academy trust inspections

Academy trust body instructed top lawyer over schools bill

Producing bill before regulatory review was completed was ‘huge legislative error’, says CST chief Leora Cruddas

DfE signs off Holland Park move to United Learning despite legal battle

The scandal-hit standalone academy will join the country’s largest trust, but a union vowed to continue its legal battle

United Learning’s chief operating officer leaves for private school association

Dominic Norrish was ‘integral’ to trust’s success, United say

Holland Park staff and parents take MAT fight to High Court

The NEU is backing parents’ bid to stop the standalone academy joining United Learning, claiming consultation was flawed

Catholic trust pilot in disarray after academy U-turn and pay gaffe

The DfE faces calls to apologise after a legal challenge halted its academisation push with Hallam diocese, whose schools also saw funding delayed

DfE ‘pauses’ diocese academy drive after legal challenge

Unions have challenged the DfE’s decision to approve Catholic Diocese of Hallam conversions before governing bodies had voted

Downsizing trust ‘failed to balance books quickly enough’

The Department for Education has slapped strict spending controls on an academy trust accused of failing to balance its books rapidly enough after it was stripped of a school. The Castle Trust, which is now preparing to close, has been issued a financial notice to improve after it “failed to act quickly enough to make […]

DfE blocks MAT’s bid to take shares in outsourcing firm

An outsourcing firm has urged the government not to be “hung up on fear of the different” after officials thwarted a multi-academy trust’s bid to take shares in the for-profit company. Schools Week revealed in March that Transforming Futures Trust (TFT) had signed a £1 million deal to outsource most of its central staff and […]