On 31 March, the National Education Union challenged the Department for Education on its questionable evidence base for a drive towards pushing schools into joining multi-academy trusts (MATs). Our analysis documents - The Government’s flawed case for a fully trust-led system, and what is the evidence for forcing schools into multi-academy trusts? - exposed the very poor justification behind these plans.
On 1 April, the NEU wrote to the Office for Statistics Regulation to highlight these flaws and ask for an adjudication on the Department for Education's handling and presentation of data.
