The government will plough ahead with new intervention powers over ‘coasting’ schools despite Ofsted warning they are “unnecessary and potentially damaging” for improving schools and risk encouraging “quick fixes”.
The Department for Education has today confirmed plans to intervene at schools rated ‘requires improvement’ or below in successive Ofsted inspections.
In a formal consultation response, the department said it expects regional directors would “normally” order such maintained schools and standalone academies to join multi-academy trusts.
