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Former official claims closing ESFA 'bad news for transparency and fairness', but others welcome the change
Mainstream schools increasingly looking for 'specialist help' to deal with youngsters' needs
Outwood Grange moves away from 'central view' of education - and will even pause taking on the toughest schools
Move will match trust's 'grown ambitions', boss says
Dixons will instead have more than 20 staff called 'school and college trust leaders'
High Court decision to throw out academisation decision means LA will 'have to close high-performing school instead'
Academy trust handbook update also includes pause on electric car schemes and finance lease changes
More than 2,000 academies have been rebrokered since 2013
Around one in five trusts which were running schools in 2019 are no longer in operation