The government will ramp up its use of powers to strip trusts of groups of underperforming academies en-masse, a minister has said.
The Department for Education’s academies regulatory and commissioning review, published today, pledged to explore making “greater use” of intervention powers to tackle educational underperformance in academy trusts.
Schools Week reported last year how ministers planned to bolster their use of powers to tear up funding agreements and move schools into larger trusts, after then education secretary Kit Malthouse vowed to be “more assertive” about intervention.
Government intervention for poor performance is usually focused on individual schools, with termination warnings issued to academies that are rated ‘inadequate’, and individual settings rebrokered to new sponsors if troubles persist.
