Councils should not run their own trusts and instead have the power to trigger academy rebrokers of failing schools, the boss of the country’s largest trust has said.
Outlining his vision for a fully-academy trust sector, Sir Jon Coles said local authorities should oversee “sufficiency” in their areas – with both oversight and powers to ensure enough school places, access to them and provision for vulnerable pupils.
Currently, regional directors who are employed by the Department for Education oversee transfers of underperforming schools, triggered by ‘inadequate’ Ofsted judgments.
But Coles called for more “dynamism” over intervention.
