The Department for Education (DfE) is taking charge of school intervention work traditionally performed by local authorities as ministers respond to concerns about how they can possibly supervise thousands of newly independent academies.
The DfE quietly set up last month what could be seen as a “middle tier” of officials and consultants, who are now monitoring the performance of both academies and non-academy maintained schools in nine regions across England, an internal departmental newsletter seen by SecEd reveals.
The aim is to intervene in “failing schools”, in a system which has been set up to dovetail with Ofsted’s own regional inspection work, which was unveiled last year.
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