Academy leaders earning significantly more than their peers at similar trusts face new scrutiny from government.
Sector leaders welcomed a seemingly “more proportionate” approach to chief executive pay after the government said officials were looking at academy accounts to find “outlier levels of leadership pay across similar academy trusts”.
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) used to write public letters demanding justifications from trusts that paid their leaders more than £150,000, but the clampdown has been in limbo since mid-2020.
Data blunders sparked a wider review of whether the agency’s approach was “reasonable”.
