Parents speak of being let down in free school’s closure
The former Collective Spirit free school
Parents of a failed free school have told this website how their children were left for weeks with little or no education after the institution closed in what they said were chaotic circumstances.
Collective Spirit free school in Oldham, greater Manchester, closed in July, four years after it opened and with parents now telling Education Uncovered that a government official had admitted to them, in a meeting after its closure was announced, that intervention to improve the school should have come sooner and that oversight had failed.
Collective Spirit was an 11-16 secondary school, with 210 pupils at the time of closing, run by an academy chain of the same name whose other institution, Manchester Creative Studio, has also been revealed as in line for closure.
The Department for Education announced the closure of the Collective Spirit Free School on June 29th last year, just over a year after Ofsted inspectors uncovered serious failings in what the local Labour MP and former council leader Jim McMahon described as the worst inspection report he had ever seen.
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 15 January 2018
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