The call has come from the Local Government Association (LGA), which has questioned the capacity of the academies system to take on more schools.
The Education and Adoption Bill, currently going through Parliament, would force “failing schools” to convert to sponsored academies.
The DfE has said it expects up to 1,000 local authority maintained schools to be converted into academies under the new legislation.
There is anger because the proposals would see the duty to consult local stakeholders over academy conversion scrapped for “inadequate” schools being forced to convert.
However, the LGA, which represents 370 councils across England and Wales, claims that only three of the 20 largest academy chains are “viable” to take on additional schools.
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