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It follows Ofsted's first focused inspection into an academy chain last month, which found Oasis Community Learning Trust had a «legacy of weak challenge».
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The head of Ofsted, Michael Wilshaw, just last week said many academy chains were performing badly and letting down disadvantaged children.
According to The Sutton Trust, over the last year, the government has been more willing to move underperforming academies from their chains and Regional Schools Commissioners have been actively re-brokering academies.
In the last year alone, there have been serious revelations about academy chains and others letting inappropriate contracts to people «associated» to their senior leaders to the tune of # 53m.
Academy chain chief executive Alan Yellup (pictured above), who is also on the headteacher board for West Yorkshire and Lancashire, revealed his region's target at the Westminster Education Forum last week.
In his interview, Sir David revealed plans to create four tiers of academy chains, ranging from starter trusts made up of five or fewer academies to «system leaders»: large chains with 30 or more schools under their umbrellas (see last page).
Schools Week revealed last year how academy chains were switching sponsors at an increasing rate — with three changing hands in 2012 compared to 26 in 2014.
Last year, the country's largest academy chain, AET, moved all its information communication technology (ICT) services to Google's cloud service, saying it would allow it to save # 900,000.
Last month a police investigation into the financial running of a collapsed academy chain has found that no crimes were committed.
The Future Leaders trust launched its executive educators» programme for current and would - be academy chain chief executives last year.
The same warning was given last week to England's biggest academy chain, AET, after tough criticism from Ofsted, which accused AET of «failing too many pupils».
«This is the second academy chain in a matter of weeks to announce huge cuts and it won't be the last, as Government funding cuts bite.
Sir Michael made repeated calls last year to be given explicit powers to inspect the head offices of academy chains, in the same way that Ofsted can look at local council children's services.
In a report published in November last year, the Education Select Committee said Ofsted should be given powers to inspect organisations that run chains of academies.
It marks a rapid expansion for the REACH brand, with Reach4 named as one of five academy chains given a slice of # 5 million government funding last year to «drive up standards» in northern schools.
But academy chains vary in their effectiveness; Reform's new research attempts to find out why Selection in 2016 looks very different from grammars and secondary moderns, Theresa May insinuated last week at prime minister's questions.
New research by PwC published last weekend reveals that only three of the biggest academy chains has a positive value - added rating, whilst just one of the 26 biggest primary sponsors achieves results above the national average.
Schools Week reported last week how a third academy chain in as many months had told staff across its schools they could face redundancy.
Just last year Connecticut witnessed the collapse of the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school chain as a result of revelations that the company's CEO «Dr.» Michael Sharpe didn't actually have the academic credentials he claimed and, to boot, had been convicted of embezzling public funds when he was working in California.