Academy and free school expansion coupled with budget cuts have left local authorities facing an uphill struggle to maintain school improvement services.
The latest blow to improvement support came in July when the Department for Education (DfE) announced plans to cut £200m from the education services grant, which funds school improvement work.
This comes on top of widespread council budget cuts and a shift in the balance of power in education away from councils to schools.
For some councils, this has meant they "are not intervening in academies as much as they could be", according to Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) senior policy officer Andy Hollingsworth.
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