Regional Schools Commissioners

(asked on 5th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of schools re-brokered by a Regional Schools Commissioner have been re-brokered to a member of a Regional Schools Commissioner head teacher board.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 10th July 2018

From October 2014 when headteacher boards (HTB) came in, until the end of the financial year 2016/17, 17% of academies that moved trust, moved to a trust linked to an HTB member.[1] This figure also includes voluntary transfers, for example, where a standalone academy voluntarily joined an existing multi-academy trust.

It should be noted that HTB members must remove themselves from discussions of, and must not provide advice on, cases where they have a conflict of interest. The department’s published terms of reference for headteacher boards sets out a clear process for such cases.[2]

[1] This only includes HTB members elected or appointed in 2014, as the current cohort were elected or appointed in September 2017, after the cut off point of the data used, March 2017.

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624689/HTB_Terms_of_Reference.pdf.

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