The government’s “coasting” crackdown is leaving officials “squeezed” to help schools that actually want to convert, a regional director has said.
New powers introduced last September allowed the government to “academise” or “rebroker” schools with two or more consecutive inspections that were less than ‘good’.
But southwest regional director Hannah Woodhouse said: “One of the things we’re finding, particularly because of all the intervention work we’re doing now because of the new powers, teams are really squeezed in terms of how much we can do with voluntary converters.”
Schools Week analysis showed 218 coasting letters warning of potential intervention had been sent to trusts in the first seven months of the clampdown.
