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Michael Gove to appoint new regulators to oversee free schools and academies

David Grailey

By: David Grailey

Chief Executive

Friday 01 November 2013

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A new set of powerful school regulators called chancellors are to be appointed by Michael Gove in an attempt to keep a check on the growing number of free schools and academies. These chancellors will have the power to seize control of failing schools.

The plan will see England split into 8 regions separate from local councils, with the free schools and academies in each region supervised by a new body known as a Headteacher Board (HTB), headed up by a chancellor. The new system echoes the model used for schools governance in the US, although the appointments are made locally.

Labour argues the plans amount to an admission from Gove "that his schools policy is failing" and Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, has said we need “real accountability and oversight.”

Mary Bousted, General Secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said that whilst academies and free schools cannot be run from central government, this latest proposal just creates a new layer of democracy.

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