A London council plans to offer a single-academy trust it co-sponsors a £1 million loan to help its bid to take over Holland Park School, as the Harris Federation also reportedly throws its hat into the ring.
The high-profile London academy had been on track to join England’s biggest trust United Learning, its board’s preferred option following a bullying and discrimination scandal – despite local opposition to the move.
But it then received an “inadequate” rating from Ofsted earlier this month, which parent campaigners said moved decision-making power from its board “into the hands of the Department for Education”. Parents are attempting to sue the inspectorate.
