The Law of Unintended Consequences: Why More Schools Are Converting to Academy Status in 2025 In a move intended to slow down the rate of academisation, the government recently […]
When the government announced the removal of the Academy Conversion Support Grant, many suspected it was a calculated move to slow the pace of academy conversions. It was widely interpreted […]
The Impact of Cutting the Academy Conversion Grant: A Call for Fairness In a significant policy shift, the Department for Education (DfE) has decided to discontinue the £25,000 academy conversion […]
When we converted our first school in late 2010, little did we think over 11 years later we would have helped nearly 300 schools in their journey to academy status. […]
So, the White Paper makes Trust growth one of the most important aspects moving forward. Let’s explore what that looks like. There are certain things I can make a very […]
So, I’ve recently talked about the concerns I have about the White Paper and the opportunity – and complete need – to build in flexibility around growing existing Trusts but […]
You know the feeling of anti-climax when you’ve been expecting something for a long time and when it finally drops, you wondered why you’d expected more in the first place? […]
No, I don’t mean the frustrating, but ultimately satisfying, cardboard jigsaws my wife loves – our beautiful Dobermann Juno ( missed every day of our lives ), our adopted elephants […]
I started talking about the building blocks of the academy programme in 2013 as the number of conversions continued to grow. By then, we’d had three years of schools looking […]
