Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the National or Regional Schools Commissioner first had discussions with the Education and Skills Funding Agency on concerns about the management by the Wakefield City Academies Trust of the schools in their multi-academy trust.
Regional School Commissioners and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) have ongoing and regular conversations about trusts. The Regional Schools Commissioners for Lancashire and West Yorkshire, and East Midlands and the Humber have been working closely with the ESFA and Wakefield City Academies Trust throughout the Trust’s history, particularly following a disappointing set of performance results in 2016.