The Department for Education (DfE) must take further steps to prevent conflicts of interest in the governance of academy trusts and be more “open and transparent” about academy accountability.
The recommendation has come from MPs on the Education Select Committee after their inquiry into the academies and free schools programme.
The report, which was published this week, says that the DfE should be “less defensive” about its implementation of the academies programme, and should produce “clearer and deeper” information about the performance of academies, chains and sponsors.
At the same time, the DfE should also be more transparent over how decisions are taken regarding the setting up of new free schools, MPs say.
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