We are a concerned collective community of parents, guardians and carers of pupils attending @AtamAcademy. We want what is best for our children and the school.
Ilford, London
Joined February 2020
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.@Ofstednews has claimed it is 'impossible' for schools to game every part of an inspection after a series of reports of staff trying to mislead inspectors
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What is happening to Atam Academy is an important example of how the system is manipulated by people working for their own interests, not caring about the detrimental impact on the community.
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A school in Chadwell Heath has seen its Ofsted rating slump from 'outstanding' to 'requires improvement'. dlvr.it/STR8v2
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Thread. May be another case study in how school-level governance and community-level engagement can be bypassed in the MAT system, where decision-making power is allowed to be centralised.
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I find it incredible that the name of the academy trust which is in control of a school can still not be stated in an Ofsted report. Just looking at one, for an inspection last month. Why is accountability and control not being made clearer to parents?
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Compelling article which highlights an inherent issue in some MATs when founders become default CEOs. Also lack of scrutiny on cumulative deficits, bear in mind this Trust also had an FNTI issued in Feb 20, so you'd have expected more probe during the consecutive year from ESFA.
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This seems, then, a microcosm of some of the problems of the academies and free schools schemes.
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Accounts also show that the pay of the former chief executive during 20-21, which was after this crisis started but before he left the organisation, increased at least 6.25 per cent in the year. Increase is more than double the national pay award for that year for most teachers.
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Case raises questions about what the trust’s High Court legal costs were. But it’s impossible to tell from the accounts, despite repeated claims that academy accounting is transparent.
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This dispute started when this free school, set up in 2013, was put in special measures by Ofsted in January 2020. As of last year, it was only two thirds full, with pupil roll well short of predictions made to DfE before it opened; this likely to have contributed to deficit.
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But that second trust, formed 13 months ago, only currently operates a single primary school. So it seems unlikely it will be asked to shoulder this debt. DfE therefore likely to pay, despite winning High Court battle for transfer to go through.
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The secondary free school at the centre of this dispute had run up at deficit of £665,000 as of last year. But accounts give strong impression that this will not be dealt with by this MAT, because it is about to transfer to another trust.
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Exclusive, I think: Taxpayer likely to pay deficit of secondary academy whose trust failed in High Court bid to stop its transfer, accounts reveal, while its former chief executive shown to receive inflation-busting pay-rise
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Parents of Khalsa Secondary Academy are delighted to see this finally happening.
RSC has confirmed KSA will transfer to Sikh Academies Trust.
We are dismayed that the current trust have failed to inform us of this and even denied it at the parents meeting last Friday.
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In one case the trust CEO took three staff members on a golfing holiday to Kenya during term time despite allegations that one had repeatedly accessed porn on a school device
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There were also 'serious allegations' made against a staff member for making 'inappropriate remarks while teaching a year 8 class'
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@amritmaanldn As parents of KSA we hope that someone of yr stature will now hold Nick Kandola to account, why has he not been removed from the board?
We hope you will distance yourself from the vile Khalsa Academies Trust.
Kindly awaiting yr response.
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Big win for @RSC_NWLSC and @educationgovuk.
Sikh trust that claimed discrimination over termination notice sees legal challenge thrown out of court (the ruling of which reveals serious safeguarding incidents behind the intervention)
@JamesCarr_93 has the story 👇
In one case the trust CEO took three staff members on a golfing holiday to Kenya during term time despite allegations that one had repeatedly accessed porn on a school device
schoolsweek.co.uk/safeguardi…