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Atam Academy is located on the New City College campus in Chadwell Heath The trust running a Redbridge academy school has accused Redbridge Council of “conspiring” with former staff in an attempt to dismantle it. Khalsa Academies Trust (KAT) runs Atam Academy in Chadwell Heath, plus schools in Wolverhampton and Buckinghamshire, and says the council wants the school to become independent of the wider trust. In February last year, council leader Cllr Jas Athwal joined parents protesting the suspension of the chair of governors, while an email from a council employee told a former scho...

“We continue to believe that the energies of Khalsa Academies Trust are best directed to securing rapid improvement and demonstrating that they are an organisation that is fit to deliver the best educational outcomes for children and young people.” Atam Academy has Ofsted’s highest Outstanding rating but, following a visit in November, inspector Mark Smith wrote to the school that its safeguarding is “not effective”, adding: “Trust leaders do not have a good enough grasp of safeguarding in the school… (and) rely too heavily on an external report.  “External reviews of safegu...