Charlotte Pearce Cornish’s Premier Advisory Group has just won the contract to support free school applications. She explains how the group supplanted her old employer the New Schools Network, and how they will do things differently
At the end of March, New Schools Network lost the government’s lucrative contract to support free school applications. It was unexpected, to say the least.
Since being set up by Rachel Wolf, the policy supremo who co-authored the Conservative Party’s 2019 election manifesto, the charity had won the cash to support would-be free school founders for 12 years running.
