Just one in 10 regional director meetings had representations from the public, backing up concerns important academy decisions are being quietly determined with little input from parents.
Fifty-eight of the 65 advisory boards convened since September did not receive a single representation, Schools Week has found.
The government this week delayed plans to academise Sheffield’s last council-maintained secondary, King Edward VII School (KES), after a fierce local backlash.
The proposal was only spotted when education professor Mark Boylan, whose daughter Sophia attends the school, stumbled upon a copy of an advisory board’s agenda online a week before it met.
