Calls have been made for education secretary Michael Gove to “consider his position” on free schools after the publication of a damning report into the government’s flagship education programme.
The investigation by Parliament’s Committee of Public Accounts (CPA) concluded that standards of financial management in some free schools are “clearly not up to scratch”. Its 64-page report also slams the Department for Education (DfE) and Education Funding Agency (EFA) for a lack of effective oversight.
The MPs are concerned that recent scandals came to light not via the EFA’s monitoring processes, but because of whistleblowers. They are also worried that in 2011/12 fewer than half of free schools submitted their required financial returns to the EFA on time.
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