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Reports today criticise the DfE for offering “bribes” of up to £65,000 to ‘failing’ schools who agree to become academies. However, this interpretation is not quite right.
Where a school is deemed to be underperforming, they may be required to become a sponsored academy. Sponsors (not schools) are able to claim £25,000 towards the costs of the academy conversion and a further £40,000 where “this is needed to plan for and start to implement action to transform the underperforming school”.
It is right that schools in need of improvement should have the support and resources to do so. Clearly, the DfE is keen to channel improvement via its academy programme. However, schools are increasingly resisting forced academisation, particularly with sponsors not of their choosing.
If the £65,000 is considered a “bribe”, then it is one directed towards sponsors to encourage them to take on schools that have often resisted being academised or sponsored by them in the first place.
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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