Call for greater council oversight of academies

By Dan Peters | 24 May 2018

Ministers need to take control of ‘faltering’ academy finances or let councils oversee them, town halls have urged today.

The Local Government Association (LGA) said the fact that so many academies are in financial trouble showed the pressures that schools are under and that the current system of oversight is not working.

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