Why does Wilshaw talk about "Local Authority areas" when half the schools are Academies?

[TalkinPeace]

Its political point scoring to slag off councils who have no rights of oversight over the schools any more.

Its been obvious for years that if you cut Head Teachers loose from their support and oversight structures they will topple like dominoes.

How can anybody be surprised that its happening?

And why do OFSTED persist in thinking about LEA boundaries when school funding (academy chains etc) no longer do?

Primaries are not actually improving, they're just getting better at hiding their cheating IME.

Ooohh, pray do tell more!

There have been at least 3 cases in the last 3 months.
HA HA HA
There are hundreds and hundreds of LAs and Councils and other authorities
and hundreds of thousands of pupils

What hope the the poor and blunt elbowed have of getting their rights?
the thread about the kid with no school place this academic year as an example

prh

So what happens when the school is outside of LA control?

There are hundreds and hundreds of LAs and Councils and other authorities and hundreds of thousands of pupils

That doesn't mean they are all breaking the law. And of course once one LA has lost a case other LAs tend to fall into line with the court's judgement quickly as they know they will lose should someone take them to court.

So what happens when the school is outside of LA control?

In what respect? They school still appears in the performance tables on the government's web site. You can search by LA and find all types of school operating within that LA's area. The type of school is listed so you can identify academies easily and compare their performance with other types of school if you wish.

Boney
the school that I get regularly roasted for avoiding for my DCs is a sponsored academy : it can easily be "sorted" on the dfe tables using the filters
sadly there is not yet a filter for "pig headed SLT" which would be really useful

Prh a number of the smaller LAs here have collapsed leaving schools unsupported.

mrz - The LAs clearly still exist and they still have a legal duty to provide statutory SEN assessments and certain other services to maintained schools. They receive funding for that purpose. When a school converts to academy status the government continues to pay the LA that proportion of the schools funding that is allocated for the provision of statutory services. The total funding provided by the government for these services should be unchanged regardless of how many schools have become academies. The LA may have to cut back on additional services they have previously given schools free of charge but they must continue provide those services required by law.