More than two thirds of sponsored academy projects delayed, new DfE data reveal
More than two thirds of current “sponsored academy” projects for which data is available have seen their projected completion dates put back by at least a month, new government statistics show.
Some 69 per cent of the 90 projects for which the government has published comparable expected academisation dates in recent months have seen those projections put back in the latest data release.
Some 33 projects – or nearly 40 per cent - have seen the government push their projected opening dates as academies back in time by at least three months since the last time it published statistics, while more than one in ten schemes have seen lags of at least six months.
The average length of time it takes for the Department for Education to implement often controversial “sponsored academy” conversions – usually when a formerly struggling local authority school is forced into non-maintained status – is now 18 months, the data also show.
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 15 May 2019
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