Extract from Commons debate on the summer adjournment - Jul 25
Friday, 26 July 2019 08:35
Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown) (Lab/Co-op):...Since the
executive board has taken control, we have had five headteachers in
five years and results have worsened, rather than improved. Swale
Academy Trust, which has of course supported the executive board,
has set the framework to enable it to take over the trust. It has
bullied the trust board to a stage at which it is threatening legal
action against a legitimate trust that is holding out because it
wants to consult the parents....Request free trial
(Brighton, Kemptown)
(Lab/Co-op):...Since the executive board has taken control, we have
had five headteachers in five years and results have worsened,
rather than improved. Swale Academy Trust, which has of course
supported the executive board, has set the framework to enable it
to take over the trust. It has bullied the trust board to a stage
at which it is threatening legal action against a legitimate trust
that is holding out because it wants to consult the parents. This
kind of academisation is totally wrong, and it is happening because
East Sussex County Council is running a bare-bones statutory
budget. The Conservative-led council is now doing only the minimum
under the law, and it is unable to support the schools in that
local area that it needs to support. We have garnered support from
other local secondary schools that will support Peacehaven in its
improvement and transition, but nothing has happened and we are not
listened to. The staff have resorted to balloting on a strike, and
I am supporting the National Education Union and the GMB
in those actions...
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