The Department for Education’s (DfE) latest White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere, was published before Easter, just days before the three main teaching unions met for their annual conferences.
It sets out plans to academise every state school in England, with plans to forcibly convert any schools that remain unacademised by 2020. It means that the role of local authorities in maintaining schools will cease entirely by the end of 2022, with most schools being expected to join multi-academy trusts (MATs).
The proposals drew severe criticism from the teaching unions, who have accused the government of wasting money on a “top-down reorganisation of state education” instead of addressing issues such as recruitment, retention, workload and school places.
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