The union had called in the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) to investigate evidence used by the government to reach its decision to bring in a fully trust-led school system.
In backing many of the union’s concerns around transparency and the quality of data used, the regulator has now written to the DfE’s chief data officer and chief statistician Neil McIvor asking for more clarity.
In a letter to McIvor, the OSR’s director general for regulation Ed Humpherson has confirmed that the regulator has “identified issues around the transparency” and quality of data used in the government’s Case for a fully trust-led system, which was published alongside its education white paper Opportunity for all.
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