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Seventeen 'pre-warning' letters issued to academies this term

Government policy
A total of 25 academy trusts have received “pre-warning” letters over standards in 34 schools since the beginning of the 2011/12 academic year – with 17 being issued this term alone.

Figures released by the Department for Education (DfE) show that in two cases, both in 2012, the letters were followed up with warning notices.

There are currently 912 sponsored academies, which are schools in struggling circumstances that have been taken out of local authority control and taken over by a sponsor. This compares with 2,532 converter academies – Ofsted good or outstanding schools which have made the switch to academy status.

The DfE says the sponsored academy programme has been a “huge success”, but has threatened action, including a possible change of sponsor, against a “small number” of academies that are not performing well. Of the cases identified since 2011, there have been six changes of sponsor as a result of the DfE’s intervention.

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