The scale of the almost military-style exercise at the Department for Education to turn as many conventional state schools into academies as possible has been set out in graphic detail in a DfE presentation obtained by Education Guardian.
A total of 304 DfE staff posts are allocated to academies.
Dominic Herrington, as director of the DfE’s Academies Group, leads a phalanx of seven deputy directors, each heading one of seven divisions. These range from the Academy Converters Division, which has 90 staff, to Academies Central Operations Division, with 53 staff; the Sponsored Academy Projects Division, with 54, and Sponsor Relationship and Development Division, with 30.
From The Guardian
Simply put, the local authority management of, and accountability for, its schools has been transferred to a centralised and non-accountable team at the DfE.