Exclusive: teachers at celebrated academy, led by £250,000 superhead, receiving only statutory sick pay of less than £100 a week educationuncovered.co.uk/news/151331/te…
Another follow-up on the case of Yasmin Omar, who was left homeless while off sick while employed by Brampton Manor Academy.
The fact that this school, as an academy, doesn’t have to follow national teacher pay and conditions and thus doesn’t offer more than statutory sick pay, has huge implications for staff if they do get sick.
I go through the detail on that in this piece: could translate to a difference of many thousands of pounds over a period of months. educationuncovered.co.uk/news/151331/te… I understand that most academies do follow national pay and conditions on this.
Btw it's really poor, I think, for this trust not even to acknowledge a request for comment on this, or on the Yasmin Omar case more generally. Are any of its policies going to change as a result of this judgment, I wonder? @BramptonManor1, @mjfaust ?
This is the second of 2 things I’ve been reminded about re deregulation through the academies policy this week: the first was that, unlike LA schools, they don’t have to have a teacher on their governing bodies.
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New: Academy offers no response on whether it will change any staff practices as a result of tribunal judgment: educationuncovered.co.uk/news/151311/ac…
Brampton Manor Academy did not respond to my questions about staffing practices as revealed in employment tribunal judgment against it.
This is a separate piece from my main one on Yasmin Omar’s victory over her former employer, the Brampton Manor Trust, at employment tribunal.
In its judgment, the tribunal set out a series of policies which it said were being applied to all staff at the school, such as staff with medical conditions not being referred to occupational health.
New: high profile academy created “hostile environment” for young teacher with multiple sclerosis, tribunal finds. educationuncovered.co.uk/news/151306/hi…
The extraordinary, and disturbing, story of Yasmin Omar’s experience as an NQT at Brampton Manor Academy.
I’m going to tweet out essentials of the first few pars of my story. (This judgment was released a few weeks ago; it has taken me a while to process what are lengthy findings).
A young woman battling multiple sclerosis has won a landmark employment tribunal judgment, after it found she had been put through intense anxiety, “harassment” and “intimidation”, which may have worsened her condition.
New: Hereditary principle kicking in at Harris Federation: educationuncovered.co.uk/diary/diary/15… England’s 2nd-largest academy chain has underlined its position as in the control of a single family, as wife and son of its “sponsor” have joined him at the highest level of its governance system.
So the three members at Harris Federation are now Lord and Lady Harris and their son, Peter. As I revealed in 2019, Lord Harris as "principal sponsor" gets to appoint up to 32 trustees, overseeing this chain of 50 state schools, and that right then passes to family members. So...
...this is an overwhelmingly publicly funded, but privately controlled, organisation.
New: Academy chief executive, who oversaw primary school with the highest number of permanent exclusions on record in England, put forward by government to be the next Children’s Commissioner. educationuncovered.co.uk/diary/diary/14…
New piece on Rachel de Souza.
This piece looks at past investigations around de Souza’s Inspiration Trust and its record on pupil departures, including the place of two IT primary schools in the top 10 for most permanent exclusions in 2018-19. educationuncovered.co.uk/diary/diary/14…
One of those schools, which is in special measures, saw Ofsted highlighting in two reports its fixed-term exclusions, though strangely not mentioning permanent ones.
New: School improves Covid safety procedures following Education Uncovered reporting. educationuncovered.co.uk/news/148741/sc… Continuing the tale of two Future Academies institutions and their coronavirus responses.
There’s no doubt that public coverage of a school’s covid response and other issues around management can be uncomfortable for those in charge, but this does seem to have yielded some positive results for this community. Arrangements for children departing at end of day now safer
This is a trust where there have long been concerns about a lack of accountability given that it is essentially privately controlled by a former academies minister and his wife. I haven’t had any response from the trust about any of my recent reports.
This story came about after I was staggered to read, in a DfE consultation on “greater transparency” in the non-academy sector, the government saying that academy trusts disclose details of their people paid £100k...
This was in a section of this DfE paper going on about a “disparity in public access to information on high salaries between maintained schools and academy trusts”, seemingly with the latter being said to be more transparent.