The government has signed off the transfer of high-profile standalone academy Holland Park to United Learning, despite a local campaign, legal battle and strike action against the move.
Dame Kath Dethridge, south-east regional director at the Department for Education, said England’s biggest multi-academy trust would “bring to bear significant resource and capacity” to support the troubled west London school.
She said United Learning would put the secondary on a “stable footing” after a “turbulent year”, but a union, the local council and parent campaigners condemned the decision as a “disgrace”.
