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LeftishBrit

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2. Very worrying

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Sat Oct 28, 2017, 07:03 AM

Oct 2017

Entrusting children's education - and sinking government money - into poorly-regulated and poorly-vetted businesses was always going to be risky. Gove was so keen on free schools and academies for their own sake, that they were doubtless often not even subjected to the same government vetting and oversight that one would expect for private schools.

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Collapsing academy trust asset-stripped its schools of millions [View all] T_i_B Oct 2017 OP

Worrying, indeed. TubbersUK Oct 2017 #1

Very worrying LeftishBrit Oct 2017 #2

Encouraging multi-academy trusts destroys the concept that academies were promoted with muriel_volestrangler Oct 2017 #3

I think multi-academy trusts have been about for as long as Academies! T_i_B Oct 2017 #4