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Three senior staff left an academy trust after investigators found an “undisclosed conflict of interest” over £379k paid to a linked supply teacher agency

Scaled-back council support services and financial woes are some of the main drivers behind a spike in schools wanting to convert into an academy

Claire Pannell reckons she might be the only person in the country with her job title. While many trusts have a director of governance, she can’t find any that also have their own “general counsel” – the joint roles that she fills at Anthem Schools Trust. Maintained schools call on local authority legal departments when Claire Pannell, Anthem

The boss of a prominent academy chain fears the government’s new trust quality descriptors could become the 'Ofsted handbook' of the MAT world

Once a humble design technology teacher in Sunderland, Nick Hurn reveals the truth of how his schools have grown and developed.