One of the more effective school improvement strategies of the last five years has been the threat of forced academisation.
Some schools face such a challenging set of difficult circumstances that they just give up. But for many others, it can galvanise them into much-needed action. The prospect of being forced to become an academy has the power to focus minds and lead to the development of a credible alternative plan to raise standards and a real commitment to delivering it.
Since the Academies Act was passed in 2010, the Department for Education has been able to intervene if a school is judged by Ofsted to be requiring “significant improvement” or if it is placed in “special measures” or for failing to comply with a warning notice.
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