{"id":68963,"date":"2018-03-09T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68963"},"modified":"2018-03-09T05:39:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T10:39:04","slug":"tes-two-church-schools-ordered-to-become-academies-set-to-close-because-no-one-will-sponsor-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68963","title":{"rendered":"(TES) Two Church Schools ordered to become academies set to close because no one will sponsor them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-news-article-standfirst\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-news-article-standfirst field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">Church academy trust says it is not able to take on two church schools that were issued with directive academy orders<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<p>Two primary schools that were ordered by the Department for Education to become academies are set to close because no academy trust would take them on.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey County Council this week launched public consultations on plans to shut Green Oak C of E Primary in Godalming\u00a0and Ripley C of E Primary, Ripley.<\/p>\n<p>Ofsted rated the former \u201cinadequate\u201d\u00a0<a class=\"processed\" href=\"https:\/\/reports.ofsted.gov.uk\/provider\/files\/2661093\/urn\/125185.pdf\" data-mz=\"\">last March<\/a>, while the latter received the same grade\u00a0<a class=\"processed\" href=\"https:\/\/reports.ofsted.gov.uk\/provider\/files\/2699535\/urn\/125147.pdf\" data-mz=\"\">in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the 2016\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tes.com\/news\/school-news\/breaking-news\/new-academies-laws-were-passed-parliament-last-night-here-what-they\">Education and Adoption Act<\/a>, all \u201cinadequate\u201d maintained schools must be turned into academies. The government issued directive academy orders for both schools.<\/p>\n<p>The two\u00a0<a class=\"processed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surreysays.co.uk\/csf\/ripley\/\" data-mz=\"\">consultations<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a class=\"processed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surreysays.co.uk\/csf\/green-oak\/\" data-mz=\"\">closing the schools<\/a>\u00a0both say: \u201cThe effect of the order is that the school must be placed within a multi-academy trust (MAT) to secure its future. As no appropriate MAT has been identified to take the school forward, it is necessary for the council to undertake consultation on the future provision at the school.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tes.com\/\/news\/school-news\/breaking-news\/schools-ordered-become-academies-set-close-because-no-one-will\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church academy trust says it is not able to take on two church schools that were issued with directive academy orders Two primary schools that were ordered by the Department for Education to become academies are set to close because<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68963\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,111,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-education","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68965,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963\/revisions\/68965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}