A report from IPPR says that as increasing number of schools take up academy status there is less access to networks of support and “a lack of local oversight of school performance”.
It says that this “fragmentation” of the school system has led to “inadequate school place planning and a lack of robust and transparent quality assurance for new school providers”.
It suggests that the local commissioners could tackle this by working across city or county areas and should be appointed by partnerships of local authorities.
The government already has eight regional school commissioners who oversee the academies programme, but the report argues that these do not have a remit for maintained schools and have no role in school improvement unless an academy is thought to be “failing”.
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