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England’s most well-paid academy leader breaks the £450k barrier
Another pay rise for husband-and-wife team running academy trust sees their combined remuneration now nearing £400,000 a year
Number of £150k-plus employees at Academies Enterprise Trust doubles in a year
Absolute return for someone: Ark Schools shells out £200,000 in non-contractual severance payment to anonymous former staff member
Academy trust leader’s published remuneration jumps by more than five per cent
Why were only 12 academy trusts written to over high pay?
Major academy trusts’ rate of spending on auditors is seven times that of largest local authorities, DfE and council data suggest
Stricken academy trust’s accounts still not published – three months after government rules say they had to have been
Deficit at large academy trust swells by more than £1 million in a year as continued existence depends on government loans
Pay of CEO of trust which asked for extra cash from the government rises at least 15% to approach £200k
Cuckoo Hall trust abandons “stage not age” ability group teaching-as accounts reveal its CEO pay rose at least 16 per cent last year
Exclusive: Three leaders of collapsed chain of primary schools were paid nearly £500,000 between them in 2017-18
Large academy chains warn again about funding pressures
Revealed: vast differences between spending of largest academy chains on senior management
Rolling news blog, week of June 11th
Head’s £185k salary deemed “questionable” by official auditors
Pay package of financially troubled trust’s former CEO rose at least five per cent last year
Exclusive: academy trust has paid £1.6 million in four years for services of married couple running it
High-paying Harris Federation spent £12m more than it received in income, accounts reveal
Beleaguered academy chain WCAT paid out more than £1m on staff “restructuring”
