Furthermore, some local authorities are finding it difficult to take an integrated approach to education in their areas because of the high number of secondary schools that have converted.
The report – Converting Maintained Schools to Academies – finds that since 2010/11, converting maintained schools to academies has cost the Department for Education (DfE) around £745 million – of which £81 million was spent in 2016/17.
As of January 2018, the DfE had converted 6,996 maintained schools to academies and there were a total of 1,101 approved sponsors. With 476 free schools also open, it means that 7,472 of the 21,538 state-funded schools in England (35 per cent) are now academies.
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