Collapsing academy trust asset-stripped its schools of millions

[TubbersUK]

1. Worrying, indeed.

and begging for a thorough investigation.

ETA:

Murkier and murkier

Yorkshire schools protest at Westminster in academy row

A year before WCAT collapsed, in summer 2016, the Department for Education’s (DfE) Education Funding Agency launched an investigation into the trust. But Ms Kincaid said that despite frequent attempts to requests to see the final report, it has yet to be published. She said: “We don’t know what has happened to the money and people are very angry about this. “In January and February WCAT removed all the finance officers from schools. It meant that if you wanted to order anything as a teacher, you had to go through the trust. “This is why we want the schools back in local authority control because we don’t trust any of these people.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/education/yorkshire-schools-protest-at-westminster-in-academy-row-1-8822589