22 Apr 2013

From Schools Improvement Net
One of Britain’s largest academy chains has been given an official notice to improve by the Government over financial irregularities.

15 Mar 2013

Today the national audit office announced that there will be a shortfall of a quarter of a million school places by next year. Yet at the same time the government is pumping billions into the Academies and Free schools programme, which will see money being taken from the public sector and syphoned off into the private sector.

“Kevin Brennan, the shadow schools minister, said Gove was failing in his primary duty to provide school places for children.

31 Jan 2013

More than a million children at academies and free schools could be eating unhealthy lunches because those institutions are exempt from tough food standards, council leaders have warned.
From The Guardian
Academies and free schools which opt out of national regulations are failing in their moral duty to ensure pupils receive healthy dinners, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).

28 Mar 2012

Figures in a recent government consultation paper on the funding of academies have revealed that Gove’s policy of getting schools to convert to academies is expected to cost nearly £600 million more than planned over the two year period 2011 – 2013.

19 Jan 2012

From Jenny Day:

Will schools that are forced to become academies receive the £25,000 blood money upon conversion?