Sentences with phrase «academy trusts failed»

Nearly 140 academy trusts failed to submit their accounts on time in the past financial year.

The report highlights some of the most high - profile multi-academy trust (MAT) failures such as the Wakefield City Academies Trust and says the DfE was unable to properly explain what happens to a school's funds when its academy trust fails.

Not exact matches

Ofsted has warned that England's largest academy chain, the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), is «failing too many pupils».

The trust has suffered criticism from Ofsted this past year, with a letter in February saying AET was was failing too many pupils, with «mediocre» secondary academies, unacceptably low attendance and poor children doing particularly badly.

Morse said: «Providing Parliament with a clear view of academy trusts» spending is a vital part of the Department for Education's work — yet it is failing to do this.

Yorkshire academy trust Rodillian MAT has received a financial notice due to failing to balance its budget and «historic failures» of governance.

Baker wrote to ministers in January to complain after a Schools Week investigation found most of England's largest academy trusts had failed to comply with the duty.

The government will name and shame academy trusts which submit their financial returns late or fail to send them off from next September.

It's emerged that the failed Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) spent over # 1m of public money on sacking its staff before it announced it was due to close.

Government finance bosses are investigating several unnamed academy trusts that failed to get Treasury approval for hefty payments made to staff.

The past year has been a difficult one for the trust, with a critical letter from Ofsted in February saying AET was was failing too many pupils, with «mediocre» secondary academies, unacceptably low attendance and poor children doing particularly badly.

A schools commissioner offered a troubled academy trust a «sweetheart deal» to quietly shift its schools to avoid information about its failings being made public.

Termination warning notices are published documents that reveal the failings of a school and list the actions an academy trust must take if it wishes to retain the school.

And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust.

Knights said academy trustees could face dismissal if they failed to carry out their duties, depending on the rules set by individual trusts.

Each of the new boards will have members from across local councils, teaching schools, dioceses and the ranks of academy trust chief executives to advise regional school commissioners (RSCs) on improvement strategies for failing schools.

The investigation found the trust had failed to retain any form of free school meal eligibility evidence for a period of six years — breaching the Academies Financial Handbook.

Then there is the money wasted on transferring an academy from one failing trust to another.

But it is not just the teaching unions that have expressed concerns about the powers of local and national government to intervene in failing academies and multi-academy trusts.

The BBC reported today that # 384 million originally earmarked for converting failing schools into academies and developing multi-academy trusts has been taken back by treasury officials.

Later that year, the government removed the requirement for academy trusts to consult parents over plans to forcibly convert failing schools into academies.

Labour had argued that the academies programme was already hitting problems, with a number of large - scale trusts being sanctioned for failing to improve results fast enough.

An MP who is calling for a controversial academy trust to withdraw from a failing school has been physically escorted off the school's premises during a visit to check on flood damage.

The Sutton Trust, an educational charity which funds numerous research projects, warned that on the question of whether academies had fulfilled their original mission of improving failing schools in poorer areas, «our evidence suggests a mixed picture».

Ofsted said the trust had not done enough to identify the «weaknesses and needs» of its academies, and criticised leaders for failing to identify underperformance quickly enough.

Rachelle Wilkins, the GMB's lead officer for the trust, said some academy trusts «fail to realise» the huge amount of work done by support staff, who she branded «the unsung heroes of our school system».

But Mark Vickers, the MAT's chief executive, said government advisers visited Olive AP Academy in Essex after it received its grade, as well as its sister academy in Havering, and reassured the trust that it could continue with plans to take over the Kingsfield Centre, a failing pupil referral unit currently run by Suffolk County CAcademy in Essex after it received its grade, as well as its sister academy in Havering, and reassured the trust that it could continue with plans to take over the Kingsfield Centre, a failing pupil referral unit currently run by Suffolk County Cacademy in Havering, and reassured the trust that it could continue with plans to take over the Kingsfield Centre, a failing pupil referral unit currently run by Suffolk County Council.

The government is planning to increase their powers to intervene in failing and «coasting» local authority maintained schools, as well as academies, but concerns about their different approaches have been raised by organisations such as United Learning, an academy trust that runs schools in all eight regions.

And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust, usually under a new principal and governing body.

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