[Kizzy]

This isn't an expose, parents, teacher or the media... this is conservatives themselves exposing failures in academies on an industrial scale.
Schools taken from local authority scrutiny are being drained of funds by, well who knows?

'Parents are being “left in the dark” over who really runs schools in England, according to parliament’s education committee. It has called for the government to overhaul the oversight of academy chains after a string of high-profile failures.

Robert Halfon, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, signalled to the the new education secretary, Damian Hinds, that the system of regulation had created overlaps and confusion, allowing some multi-academy trusts (Mats) to escape oversight.

“We are particularly concerned by the extent to which failing trusts are stripping assets from their schools. It is not clear to us that all schools are benefiting from joining Mats, or that trusts are providing value for money,” Halfon said in a letter to Lord Agnew, the academies minister.

Academies are state schools directly accountable to the Department for Education (DfE), rather than local authorities.

More than half of all secondary schools in England are now run as as academies, as well as more than a fifth of primary schools.

In a further letter to Hinds, Halfon asked for a statement from the DfE oabout the plight of schools affected by the collapse of infrastructure group Carillion this week.

“Given the scale and nature of the services provided by Carillion to almost 900 schools and colleges, it is essential that the impacts of the firm’s collapse are understood and steps taken to ensure the continuity of services such as school catering and facilities management across the country,” Halfon said

Along with providing services to schools, Carillion also ran 1,400 apprenticeships.

https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...-school-chains

[thesheriff443]

I know someone who got paid 29 thousand for painting three classrooms, three bloody classrooms and he will get the same again in the holidays to paint three more.