A report published by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found academy trusts, which account for 7,500 schools in England educating about 3.8 million pupils, were not being held to account by the DfE when failures were identified.
Academy trusts have more freedoms and responsibilities than local authority maintained schools, can determine their own curriculum, and are directly responsible for financial as well as educational performance.
The committee said the department was not presenting enough financial information about academy trusts - often by grouping results for the trust as a whole - which had left parents unable to understand the position of individual schools
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