School threatened with closure

[piapiapiano]

My sons school(LA) has failed their ofsted inspection in every area, and is being threatened with closure.
Does anyone know of anything we can do as parents to support the school?
The school has had problems with recruiting staff. However those that are there, are good dedicated teachers.
For the record the report bears no resemblance to the school I know.
My son (yr 11) is happy, confident and is doing well.

They'll probably close it, find a sponsor, then reopen it as a flagship grammar school.

Thanks everyone for the links and expert advice. We shall indeed make sure correct procedure is adhered to, and I assume the group will appeal if the the decision is to close.
This is probably a really stupid question but I shall ask anyway. Who would be officially looking out for the school? There is no head teacher, the governors have been dismissed and the staff are not allowed to get involved. So who be fighting for the school?
Thanks again.

I don't think that you can have a situation where the Governors have been dismissed and not replaced with anything.

There should be a ?Management Board? (can't remember the term) who are an imposed / appointed group who take over the role of governors.

This does not mean they will be fighting for the school - it sounds as if the only people dong that may be some of the parents - but there must be someone managing / responsible for the school in the interim and, if the decision is made to close, managing an orderly closure

Found it! Interim Executive Board, appointed in this case by the Local Authority:

Full details here

So if the appointment and constitution of the Interim Executive Board has not been made clear to you, then you should ask the LA.

You're right there is an IEB in place.
I shall now go and read your link and inform myself, thank you.

In my LA, funding is delegated to maintained schools for school improvement services which are delivered by the employees of a trust which the schools buy back. They are not delivered directly by the LA. The trust do come and give advice to schools on varying scales. They assess if you are at risk of failure and work with the SLT. There is no more money put into the school's budget. You do get more advice but the GB and SLT are responsible for improvement.

In this case there have been an ongoing problem for several years and the finances must be dire. Nothing is going to make up for a school with 500 pupils that has room for 180 X 5 - 900! It is probably an insurmountable problem!

Is the school in South Oxfordshire? If so I work in the neighbouring school so know what a stressful time it is.

If your dc is in year 11 it won't affect them directly in terms of school closure.

Hope you get some good news soon.