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Minister warns academies over levels of executive pay

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The government has issued a clear warning to academies which have particularly high levels of executive pay – targeting specifically those where a single employee earns more than £150,000 a year.

Multi-academy trusts (MAT) have also been warned that executive pay must not increase at a faster rate than that of classroom teachers.

It comes after Eileen Miller, the CEO of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, recently wrote to all single-academy trusts where remuneration for a trust employee is higher than £150,000. She will shortly be writing to MATs as well on this issue.

A second letter, sent last week from Lord Agnew, the Parliamentary under-secretary for the school system, to the chairs of all MATs in England, warned that not all governing boards were taking sufficient action on the issue of executive pay.

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