The government will correct the record over its claims about the effectiveness of academy trusts after being slapped down by the statistics watchdog.
The Office for Statistics Regulation, the regulatory arm of the UK Statistics Authority, has raised issues about the “transparency, quality and replicability” of data in a document published alongside the schools white paper in March.
The watchdog launched an investigation in April following a complaint from the National Education Union, which accused the government of “misreporting” data to back its academies reforms. The department cherry-picked trusts for comparison in its “case for a fully trust-led system” report, NEU said.
