National Audit Office

Converting maintained schools to academies

This report focuses on the arrangements for converting schools to academies. We assess the Department for Education’s approach and the extent of conversion; the robustness, cost and speed of the conversion process; and the availability of sponsors and multi-academy trusts to support schools to convert to academies.

Published 22 Feb 2018 Value for Money Department for Education

Topics: Education, training and skills

Recommendations

No recommendations are indexed here. The report itself may contain some: see the report on nao.org.uk, linked above.

Public Accounts Committee follow-up 1 report

The Public Accounts Committee examined this NAO report and made its own recommendations. The government replies to those in Treasury Minutes.