School takes five months to release key decision-making document in controversial academisation, following “misunderstanding” of information rules

Campaigners outside Paddock Wood primary school, Kent, earlier this year.

The Information Commissioner has upheld a parent’s complaint about a school refusing to release key decision-making information as it moved to become an academy.

However, the commissioner’s verdict has come too late to have an effect on the process, with the school set to academise next month and with the parent arguing that the late release of information hampered his attempt to have the move challenged at judicial review.

The case in question is that of Paddock Wood primary school, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, about which Education Uncovered is also publishing a second story today.

Charles Marshall, a parent who has been at the forefront of the campaign against the school academising under Leigh Academies Trust, sought back in January to get sight of the governing body resolution which had officially instigated the process.