A Panorama investigation this week accused the Bright Tribe academy trust of making repeated false claims for building and maintenance grants.
Schools Week can now reveal at least two more trusts have misused the same funds, and that academies minister, Lord Agnew, responded to concerns about such misuse by admitting “there will always be bad apples in any system”.
Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the “insistence that there are just ‘some bad apples’ just won’t cut the mustard. It’s not good enough, because we know what a bad apple does, it rots the rest of the crop.”
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