Publication of details of the £140,000 contract with review chair Josh MacAlister have also led to sector leaders raising concerns over the independence of the “once-in-a-generation” review.
It shows there is contractual involvement of “civil servants from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)” and that MacAlister must report early findings to the Department for Education to “inform the department’s bid at the next Spending Review”.
A heavily redacted version of the 35-page document was published on the government’s “Contract Finder” portal earlier this month in which information about the scope of the reviews’ work had been removed.
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