Failing, underperforming and coasting schools to become academies
02 November 2015
A new DfE consultation seeks views on proposals for tackling maintained schools that are “causing concern”.
The consultation makes a number of proposals regarding the new and strengthened powers of intervention in maintained schools being introduced by the Education and Adoption Bill – currently being considered in Parliament. The measures in this Bill are designed to speed up the process by which failing schools become sponsored academies.
The consultation sets out:
- The background and context, including an overview of the changes being introduced in the Education and Adoption Bill
- How Regional Schools Commissioners and local authorities should use their intervention powers in practice
- How the DfE proposes that schools will be identified as coasting.
The earliest date for the implementation of any intervention powers will be summer 2016.