We will free schools from LEA interference to be micromanaged from Whitehall

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All this guff about coasting schools

All the bilge about under-performing schools

So LEAs have been declared unfit to oversee their local schools
but clever people in Whitehall can do the job

and what happens when a sponsored academy starts to coast
or even fail

prh
LEAs may have been half arsed in some cases, but they were accountable and comparable.

Academies are neither accountable not comparable.

The Charities Commission investigates 1,972 cases of operational compliance in 2013/14
Do you have a link to that, so that we can see what that actually means?

Just that I was looking up a charity today that is 4 years behind on its accounts and annual returns.
The Charities Commission website has it flagged up as a problem, but they do nothing.

Companies House are just as bad.
They strike companies off for a late form but do nothing about sets of accounts that are a pack of lies (imaginary directors, demonstrably false turnover figures etc etc).

Do you have a link to that, so that we can see what that actually means?

It is in their annual report and accounts. It has 11 pages (nearly 10% of the document) on tackling abuse and mismanagement. Not saying that they do enough but they certainly do something.

do nothing about sets of accounts that are a pack of lies

That isn't the job of Companies House. They are just the registrar. They can take action against companies that fail to file documents but they do not have any investigatory powers. If a company is filing false accounts that is likely to be tax evasion or fraud - HMRC or the police respectively.