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The High Court judgment dealing with the application to challenge a previous decision to convert Downhills Primary School into an academy has now been published.
The judgment discusses a number of interesting points relating to forced academisation and the Secretary of State’s legal powers in this area. Importantly, the Court ruled that the Secretary of State should consider how a school would perform if it remained a maintained school before making an academy order. For the Downhills decision, the Court noted that the Secretary of State had considered the alternative but given “egregious past failures over a very substantial period”, the Secretary of State’s decision to proceed with academy status was considered to be rational.
However, where a school’s performance under local authority control has not been so poor historically and there are genuine prospects for improvement in the future as a maintained school, this decision demonstrates that the Secretary of State will need to think carefully before putting in place a funding agreement.
The recent case of R (on the application of A Parent) v Governing Body of XYZ School [2022] EWHC 1146 (Admin) provides some welcome and reassuring guidance to governing boards on the exclusion reconsideration process.
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With 19 HR experts now supporting over 500 schools and trusts across the country, in this edition of 60 seconds we sit down with Emma Hughes, who leads the team, to discuss what this significant milestone means to her.
In order to reduce the risk of potential breaches, schools should follow this Health and Safety Executive guidance.
A ResPublica report highlighted that asbestos continues to be the UK’s number one occupational killer, with nurses and teachers 3 to 5 times more likely to develop mesothelioma than the general UK population. The House of Commons Work & Pensions Select Committee is investigating how the HSE manages the continued presence of asbestos in buildings.
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