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21 April 2026

Tag: free schools

Investigation: Flagship 16-19 free schools under threat

Financial cracks are emerging in the government’s flagship 16-19 free schools as heads face stalling recruitment and “chronic” underfunding. Analysis by Schools Week reveals that half of the 18 sixth-form free schools have fewer than 200 pupils, which the government says is the minimum roll for a viable school. Most have been open since 2014. […]

Government ‘propping up’ free schools with loans

The government has been accused of propping up under-subscribed free schools with “interest-free loans”, while academies and council schools are left to struggle on without extra cash. It comes after new figures seen by Schools Week reveal the government overpaid free schools by more than £28 million in the past three years. New free schools […]

Where will the next wave of free schools be? We still don’t know…

Free school applicants claim they have been “left in the dark” by the delay in announcing the latest successful bids. Schools Week understands the names of successful wave 12 proposals were due to be announced at the beginning of March, but applicants are still waiting to hear if they have got the go-ahead. The delay […]

Bolton Wanderers Free School under fire over promises in DfE application forms

The closing Bolton Wanderers Free School (BWFS) is facing more scrutiny after promises in its original application appear not to have been fulfilled and “supporters” distance themselves from the school. Schools Week revealed last week that BWFS, which is due to close in August because of financial concerns, paid almost £600,000 in rent and utility […]

Bolton Wanderers Free School paid 拢600k in rent and bills to football club

An “inadequate” school linked to a former premier league football club and now closing in August because of financial concerns, paid almost £600,000 to the club in rent and utility bills in just two years, Schools Week can reveal. Bolton Wanderers Free School (BWFS) opened in September 2014 after it was established by the Eddie […]

Pension row delays Bright Tribe free school takeover

A long-running squabble over a pension deficit has seriously delayed a major multi-academy trust from taking over a failing school. Bright Tribe, a Cheshire-based trust with 12 schools, was meant to take over Grindon Hall Christian free school in Sunderland almost one and a half years ago after the school was rated ‘inadequate’ in 2014. […]

Football club’s free school to close with 拢500,000 debt

A free school set up by Bolton Wanderers Football Club will close later this year owing the government £500,000 – much of which is likely to be written off. Bolton Wanderers Free School (BWFS), which opened in September 2014 and shares the club’s Macron stadium, is to close at the end of this academic year, […]

Government to rebroker Manchester free schools founded by charity boss

Two free schools in Greater Manchester will be re-brokered to new multi-academy trusts after one was placed into special measures on its first inspection and the second given a financial notice to improve. The Collective Spirit free school in Oldham, which opened in September 2013, received an Ofsted judgement of “inadequate” in all categories in […]