“The oversight arrangements for free schools are not yet working effectively to ensure public money is used properly.”
“Standards of financial management and governance in some free schools are clearly not up to scratch.”
“Whistleblowers played a major role in uncovering recent scandals when problems should have been identified through the Education Funding Agency’s monitoring processes.”
“The Department for Education was unable to give a consistent explanation of how its decision-making process leads to certain applications’ approval and others’ rejection.”
“Capital costs of the free school programme are escalating.”
The first 24 free schools opened in September 2011. By September 2013, 174 had been opened. And a further 116 are set to follow suit in September this year.
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