Lady Nash, co-founder of 10-school academy trust, “personally wrote” several of its subject curricula, its school websites state

History, ancient history and geography curricula, within a 10-school academy trust which has seen extensive controversy in recent years, were “personally written” by one of its founders, who appears not to have teaching experience, its schools’ websites suggest.

Lady Caroline Nash, who founded Future Academies with her husband, the former academies minister Lord John Nash, is said on the websites of schools where she is a governor also to have advised on “all other aspects of curriculum development”.

The development will be especially controversial as Lord Nash said only this week, during the second reading of the schools bill in Parliament, that decision-making in schools “should be left to education professionals”.

The detail

The websites of at least two Future Academies secondary schools, where Lady Nash serves as a governor, offer the following biographical statement about her.

“Lady Caroline Nash is a co-founder and trustee of the Future Charity [a charity connected to Future Academies]. Caroline is the founder of Pimlico Primary and has been the driving force behind the Trust’s [sic] knowledge-rich approach. As the Director of the Curriculum Centre, Caroline has personally written the British History, Ancient History and Geography KS2 [Key Stage 2] curricula as well as advising on all other aspects of curriculum development. She read Modern History at the University of Bristol.”