One of the country’s largest academy trusts risks losing one of its schools after it breached safeguarding rules on alternative provision and failed to tackle discrimination among pupils.
A recent Ofsted report said leaders at Sir Herbert Leon Academy, a secondary in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, “failed to follow their own policy or statutory guidance with regard to pupils who attend alternative provision”.
The Department for Education has now warned sponsor Academies Enterprise Trust that it will transfer the “inadequate” school to another trust if it cannot show how it will rapidly turn things around.
