Church seeks to avoid Academy accreditation process
The Church of England Board of Education is resisting plans to ensure that all sponsors of new schools are accredited for their ability to maintain educational standards, with legal advisors to the National Society arguing that setting limits on “the power of the Church of England to provide schools…must be a very doubtful legal undertaking”.
Astonishingly, the Church seems to believe that its dioceses should not be subject to the same checks as other organisations that wish to run schools, despite the fact that new Church schools will be taxpayer funded.
