The cost of expanding academy commissioner teams has rocketed by 40 per cent in just 12 months. They now cost more than £3,000 for each of England’s academies.
Union bosses are demanding a review of the effectiveness of the regional director teams.
Dubbed the new “middle tier”, these civil servants decide on new free schools, trust mergers and intervene in underperforming primaries and secondaries.
But sector leaders warn that the teams may need to grow even further to keep pace as more schools become academies. Schools Week investigates…
